Photo: Mario Pinard · Public domainPer resident, Amqui records less crime than 64% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 53.7 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Add to that, in a usual year, 12.8 violent incidents and 11.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. On crime the police covering Amqui reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety: #182 of 503 in Quebec. Quebec’s towns sit around 56.1, midway up their range.
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 Matapédia MRC.
What stands out about safety in Amqui
Lighter than in 2023
Amqui’s index went from 70.3 in 2023 to 44.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 63% of crime in Amqui ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 86% of violent crime and 38% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Amqui comes 15th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 103.9 on Amqui’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 34.2 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.
Inside Amqui’s B for safety
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: #182 of 503 in Quebec and #652 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.
Amqui’s index fell 37% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 70.3 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 44.5 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Amqui | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 46.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 70.3 | 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 Amqui, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Amqui’s figures
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14 | 0.8 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 1.5 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 0.8 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 55 | 3.1 | 45% |
| Mischief | 40 | 2.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.7 | 2.7 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 0.8 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 27 | 1.5 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 31.3 | 1.8 | 12% |
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.
By its index, Amqui stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Ferris Ontario | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | McMasterville Quebec | 6,114 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 4 | Verchères Quebec | 5,819 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Les Coteaux Quebec | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 7 | Saint-Henri Quebec | 6,048 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Val-David Quebec | 5,920 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Pie Quebec | 6,085 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 14 | Spallumcheen British Columbia | 5,843 | 51.3 | 59.9 | B+ |
| 15 | Amqui Quebec | 6,059 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| 16 | Saint-Césaire Quebec | 6,150 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 17 | Richelieu Quebec | 6,048 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 18 | Brokenhead Manitoba | 5,931 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Amqui in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Amqui is part of, 17,800 residents, recorded about 230 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 140 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Amqui
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amqui | 6,059 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Lac-au-Saumon | 1,485 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Causapscal | 2,151 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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; Amqui shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Amqui
Is Amqui safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Amqui scores 53.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.8 violent and 11.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Amqui?
Police record assault most, 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (3.8) and other Criminal Code offences (3.4).
Is crime going up in Amqui?
The reverse: 70.3 in 2023 came down to 44.5 by 2025, 37% lower.
How much of Amqui’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 63%: 86% for violent crime and 38% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Amqui 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).