Photo: Studio Livernois · Public domainCacouna has less crime per resident than 72% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 72.4 and 39. By 2025 the index had dropped to 44.6, down from 48.8 in 2023. What’s more, its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering Cacouna reported over 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Rivière-du-Loup MRC.
What stands out about safety in Cacouna
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 56% for Cacouna (70% violent, 45% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Cacouna scores 48.3. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Cacouna scores 72.4 for violence and 39 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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.
The B+ for Cacouna, and how it is built
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.
Crime in Cacouna, type by type
Assault 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 | 16.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 36.3 | 1 | 48% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9 | 0.2 | 63% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16 | 0.4 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 185 | 5.1 | 57% |
| Mischief | 96 | 2.6 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 87 | 2.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 48.3 | 1.3 | 73% |
| Impaired driving | 94.7 | 2.6 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 101.7 | 2.8 | 11% |
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.
Cacouna, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 51.4, with 2025 the lightest at 44.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Cacouna | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.8 | 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 Cacouna, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
36,400 residents, about 390 violent incidents a year: the police area Cacouna belongs to, 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.
Property crime adds about 520 a year and other violations 390 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Cacouna
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cacouna | 1,888 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Arsène | 1,269 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Rivière-du-Loup | 20,650 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Modeste | 1,182 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Antonin | 4,633 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| L'Isle-Verte | 1,427 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage | 1,341 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
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; Cacouna shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Cacouna
Is Cacouna safe?
Its police recorded 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Cacouna a Crime Severity Index of 48.3. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Cacouna?
Most often it is Criminal Code traffic offences: 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 5.1 and assault at 4.8.
Is crime going up in Cacouna?
No: the index fell 9%, from 48.8 in 2023 to 44.6 in 2025.
How much of Cacouna’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 56% of crime (70% of violent crime, 45% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Cacouna 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).