Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Beaupré than in 81% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 38.2, down from 40.3 in 2023. What’s more, in a usual year, 10.3 violent incidents and 11.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. It grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Beaupré reported from 2023 to 2025: #90 of 503 in Quebec. Violence accounts for an index of 62.9 and other offences for 35, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8.
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 Côte-de-Beaupré MRC.
What stands out about safety in Beaupré
More people here than live here
Seasonal homes make up about 34% of Beaupré’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 57% of crime in Beaupré ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 78% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Beaupré is 9th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Below Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Beaupré scores 42.7. 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 Beaupré’s A−
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: #90 of 503 in Quebec and #349 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.
Which crimes make up Beaupré’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 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17 | 0.5 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Breaking and entering | 53.7 | 1.7 | 38% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 36.3 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 80.3 | 2.5 | 41% |
| Mischief | 63 | 2 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Administration of justice violations | 56.3 | 1.8 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 29.7 | 0.9 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 55 | 1.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 39.3 | 1.2 | 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 to 10,000 people.
Beaupré is 9th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 4,389 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Eganville Ontario | 4,326 | 38.6 | 53.5 | A |
| 7 | Deep River Ontario | 4,353 | 39.3 | 56 | A |
| 8 | La Pocatière Quebec | 4,206 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 9 | Beaupré Quebec | 4,314 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 10 | Highlands East Ontario | 4,372 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| 11 | De Salaberry Manitoba | 4,401 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| 12 | Carleton-sur-Mer Quebec | 4,175 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Ambroise Quebec | 4,262 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
| 14 | Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix Quebec | 4,230 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 15 | East Angus Quebec | 4,261 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Crabtree Quebec | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Level Alberta | 4,390 | 324 | 498.7 | 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 Beaupré in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 330 violent incidents a year across the police area of 32,700 residents that includes Beaupré, 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 380 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.
Beaupré, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 49.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 38.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Beaupré | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 49.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 40.3 | 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 Beaupré, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Beaupré
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaupré | 4,314 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Joachim | 1,425 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges | 4,083 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Château-Richer | 4,732 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Tite-des-Caps | 1,611 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans | 1,006 | 26.8 | 44.8 | A+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 5 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Beaupré alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Beaupré
Is Beaupré safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 42.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Beaupré stands, with 10.3 violent and 11.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Beaupré?
Top of the list is assault (4.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 3.8, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Beaupré?
No: the index fell 5%, from 40.3 in 2023 to 38.2 in 2025.
How much of Beaupré’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 57% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 78% of violent crime and 44% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Beaupré 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).