Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Amos runs higher than in 66% of Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Amos reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety: #395 of 503 in Quebec. On top of that, its Crime Severity Index climbed from 75.3 in 2023 to 84.7 by 2025. Violence and property crime split as 20.5 violent incidents and 17.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 78.7 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 66 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Abitibi MRC.
What stands out about safety in Amos
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Amos records 2.1 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 49% of Amos’s crime, weighted by seriousness (66% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Amos stands 30th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 78.7 in Amos. 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 Amos’s C
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: #395 of 503 in Quebec and #1,630 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Amos’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Amos runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.8), sexual assault (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.8) and assault (8.9 per 1,000 against 6.6). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 33.7 | 1.4 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 12 | 0.5 | 78% |
| Other violent violations | 9.7 | 0.4 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 64.7 | 2.6 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.3 | 52% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.8 | 22% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 0.3 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 132 | 5.4 | 38% |
| Mischief | 81 | 3.3 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 13.3 | 0.5 | 62% |
| Administration of justice violations | 131 | 5.3 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13 | 0.5 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 50.7 | 2.1 | 52% |
| Impaired driving | 46.7 | 1.9 | 84% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 42.3 | 1.7 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Amos, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 84.7 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 75.3. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Amos | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84.7 | 60 |
| 2024 | 76.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 75.3 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Amos, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Amos places 30th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rothesay New Brunswick | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Cantley Quebec | 12,291 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec | 12,427 | 32.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Carignan Quebec | 12,618 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Saint-Hippolyte Quebec | 12,550 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Wellesley Ontario | 12,413 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| 28 | Kings County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 12,661 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 29 | Moncton New Brunswick | 12,238 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 30 | Amos Quebec | 12,773 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| 31 | Elliot Lake Ontario | 12,317 | 86.6 | 123.3 | C |
| 32 | Wetaskiwin County No. 10 Alberta | 12,117 | 88.9 | 60 | C |
| 33 | Gander Newfoundland and Labrador | 12,707 | 97.2 | 80.6 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | 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 Amos in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Amos is part of, 24,600 residents, recorded about 500 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 430 property crimes and 310 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 Amos
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amos | 12,773 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier | 1,046 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| Trécesson | 1,240 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Amos shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Amos
Is Amos safe?
Amos scores 78.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 20.5 violent incidents and 17.4 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Amos?
The three biggest groups are assault at 8.9, other Criminal Code offences at 6.6 and theft under $5,000 at 5.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Amos?
Up 13%: 75.3 in 2023, 84.7 in 2025.
How much of Amos’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 49%: 66% for violent crime and 31% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Amos 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).