Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Baie-du-Febvre sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 56.5 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. What’s more, the overall Safety Grade is B, which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 53.3; it rose to 60.7 in 2025. Its police logs show 12.4 violent incidents and 13.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Nicolet-Yamaska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Baie-du-Febvre
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Baie-du-Febvre ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 40% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 87.6 on Baie-du-Febvre’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 44.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Baie-du-Febvre’s index of 56.5 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’s behind Baie-du-Febvre’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.
Baie-du-Febvre, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 60.7; the lightest was 2023, at 53.3. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Baie-du-Febvre | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 53.3 | 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 Baie-du-Febvre, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Baie-du-Febvre’s figures
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21.7 | 0.9 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Breaking and entering | 47 | 2 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.3 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 86 | 3.6 | 33% |
| Mischief | 43.7 | 1.8 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.3 | 2.6 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 34.3 | 1.4 | 50% |
| Impaired driving | 48.7 | 2 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 27.3 | 1.1 | 23% |
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.
Around 300 violent incidents a year in the 24,000-resident police area around Baie-du-Febvre, 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 330 property crimes, plus 200 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 Baie-du-Febvre
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baie-du-Febvre | 1,023 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Pierreville | 2,154 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Saint-François-du-Lac | 1,927 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Nicolet | 8,737 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Baie-du-Febvre among them.
Questions about safety in Baie-du-Febvre
Is Baie-du-Febvre safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Baie-du-Febvre comes to 56.5. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 12.4 violent incidents and 13.8 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Baie-du-Febvre?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.5, fraud at 4.1 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Baie-du-Febvre?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 14%, to 60.7 from 53.3.
How much of Baie-du-Febvre’s crime do police solve?
52%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 40%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Baie-du-Febvre 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).