Photo: Charny · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Sainte-Félicité records less crime than 63% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 85.4 and other offences to 41.8, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. The index held steady between 2023 (53.6) and 2025 (55.7). Graded on crime the police covering Sainte-Félicité reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B for safety. The local count comes to 15.3 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Matane MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Félicité
More crime solved
Police cleared 59% of Sainte-Félicité’s crime, weighted by seriousness (76% of violent crime, 47% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Sainte-Félicité’s two halves part ways: 85.4 for violence (typical 86.4) and 41.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Sainte-Félicité’s index of 53.9 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Sainte-Félicité’s B
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 15 km from Sainte-Félicité, since none reports under the town’s name.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Sainte-Félicité, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (55.7) and 2024 least (52.5). For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Félicité | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.6 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Sainte-Félicité, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 330 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Sainte-Félicité (21,200 residents), 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Add about 290 property crimes and 210 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Sainte-Félicité’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.7 | 0.5 | 59% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 42.7 | 2 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 0.9 | 44% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.5 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79 | 3.7 | 51% |
| Mischief | 48.7 | 2.3 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.5 | 97% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 0.9 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 44.3 | 2.1 | 16% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Félicité
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Félicité | 1,053 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Matane (14 km) | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Saint-Ulric (29 km) | 1,658 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Sayabec (45 km) | 1,763 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Amqui (48 km) | 6,059 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
Sainte-Félicité has the highest index of the places around it. Just 44.6 km away, Sayabec comes to 53.7, against 53.9. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Sainte-Félicité with figures are 14–48 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Sainte-Félicité shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Félicité
Is Sainte-Félicité safe?
Sainte-Félicité measures 53.9 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 15.3 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Félicité?
Most often it is assault: 6.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.4.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Félicité?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 53.6 to 55.7.
How much of Sainte-Félicité’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 59% of crime (76% of violent crime, 47% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Félicité and other places, so the figures are shared.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).