Photo: Jeff dumais · CC BY 3.0For recorded crime, Albanel sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 68.9 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. The yearly rates were 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 69.9 to 66.5.
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 Maria-Chapdelaine MRC.
What stands out about safety in Albanel
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Albanel’s police clear 59%, 71% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Questions ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Albanel’s index of 68.9 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Albanel’s index splits into violent crime, 107.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 54.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Albanel’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Albanel, by type
Against the typical town its size, Albanel runs highest on break and enter (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (7.8 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20.7 | 0.8 | 76% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.9 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 76.7 | 3.2 | 42% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97 | 4 | 45% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 2.4 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.3 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 2.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 25.3 | 1 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 45 | 1.8 | 19% |
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.
Albanel, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 70.3; 2025 was lightest, at 66.5. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Albanel | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 69.9 | 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 Albanel, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 420 violent incidents a year in the 24,300-resident police area around Albanel, 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 430 property crimes and 220 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 Albanel
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanel | 2,191 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Normandin | 3,065 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Dolbeau-Mistassini | 13,581 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Girardville | 1,044 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Albanel among them.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Albanel
Is Albanel safe?
Albanel measures 68.9 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 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Albanel?
Police record assault most, 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4.2) and theft under $5,000 (4).
Is crime going up in Albanel?
The index stayed close to where it was, 69.9 in 2023 and 66.5 in 2025.
How much of Albanel’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 59%: 71% for violent crime and 49% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Albanel and everywhere else it polices.
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).