Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Barraute has more crime per resident than 66% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 78.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. What’s more, the Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crime the police covering Barraute reported through 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 20.5 violent incidents and 17.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 75.3 to 84.7.
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: one figure for all of the Abitibi MRC.
What stands out about safety in Barraute
Violence weighs more than the rest
Barraute’s index splits into violent crime, 145.2 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 52.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Barraute’s index of 78.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Barraute’s police clear 49%, 66% of violent crime and 31% of the rest. Questions ↓
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 Barraute’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 Barraute, by type
Against the typical town its size, Barraute runs highest on assault (8.9 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 | 0.3 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Barraute, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (84.7) and 2023 least (75.3). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Barraute | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 76.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 75.3 | 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 Barraute, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 500 violent incidents a year in the 24,600-resident police area around Barraute, 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 430 property crimes, plus 310 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 Barraute
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barraute | 1,939 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| Senneterre (29 km) | 1,189 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Senneterre (31 km) | 2,832 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Amos (39 km) | 12,773 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
| Val-d'Or (39 km) | 33,353 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier (43 km) | 1,046 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
The places around Barraute all score higher on the index. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 29–43 km from Barraute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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; Barraute shares it with its neighbours.
- 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. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Barraute
Is Barraute safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Barraute scores 78.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 20.5 violent and 17.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Barraute?
Police record assault most, 8.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (6.6) and theft under $5,000 (5.4).
Is crime going up in Barraute?
It has: 75.3 in 2023 became 84.7 by 2025, a rise of 13%.
How much of Barraute’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 49% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 66% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Barraute together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).