Photo: Denis Lavoie · CC BY 3.0For recorded crime, Sainte-Luce sits in the middle of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 60.2, down from 65 in 2023. Sainte-Luce grades B− for safety overall (#326 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, the local count comes to 19.8 violent incidents and 13.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Mitis MRC.
What stands out about safety in Sainte-Luce
Heavier on violence
Sainte-Luce scores 133.2 for violence and 42.2 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 60% for Sainte-Luce (73% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Sainte-Luce is 18th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Sainte-Luce scores 67.8. 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’s behind Sainte-Luce’s grade
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.
Its place: #326 of 503 in Quebec and #1,304 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Sainte-Luce, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Sainte-Luce runs highest on assault (9.2 per 1,000 against 6.7). Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.3 | 0.8 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 1 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.3 | 1.9 | 49% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62 | 3.3 | 53% |
| Mischief | 69.7 | 3.8 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 109.3 | 5.9 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.7 | 0.7 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 24.7 | 1.3 | 58% |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 33.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Sainte-Luce, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 78.1; 2025 was lightest, at 60.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Sainte-Luce | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 78.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 65 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Sainte-Luce, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Sainte-Luce is 18th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 7 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Saint-Côme Quebec | 2,810 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 16 | Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel Quebec | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| 17 | Lacolle Quebec | 2,806 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| 18 | Sainte-Luce Quebec | 2,808 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| 19 | Atikokan Ontario | 2,796 | 68.9 | 109.7 | B− |
| 20 | Cultus Lake British Columbia | 2,773 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| 21 | Forestville Quebec | 2,835 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Sainte-Luce in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Sainte-Luce is part of, 18,500 residents, recorded about 370 violent incidents a year (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 250 property crimes and 240 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Sainte-Luce
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Luce | 2,808 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard | 3,018 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Mont-Joli | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Rimouski | 51,756 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| Price | 1,701 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski | 1,239 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Sainte-Luce. Closest is Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard, 11.6 km away, at 44 to 67.8 here. Its police also cover 3 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sainte-Luce among them.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Sainte-Luce
Is Sainte-Luce safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 67.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Sainte-Luce stands, with 19.8 violent and 13.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Sainte-Luce?
Most often it is assault: 9.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.
Is crime going up in Sainte-Luce?
No: the index fell 7%, from 65 in 2023 to 60.2 in 2025.
How much of Sainte-Luce’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 60%: 73% for violent crime and 46% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sainte-Luce 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).