Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0Cantley has less crime per resident than 95% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Cantley reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A+ for safety: #10 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 8.4 violent incidents and 7.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 51.6 and 20.8. Its 5 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident.
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 Collines-de-l'Outaouais Region service area.
What stands out about safety in Cantley
Lower than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Cantley scores 29.4. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Cantley is 4th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 49% of Cantley’s crime, weighted by seriousness (67% of violent crime, 32% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Cantley’s two halves part ways: 51.6 for violence (typical 89.4) and 20.8 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Cantley: A+ for safety, and why
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: #10 of 503 in Quebec and #110 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Cantley’s crime by kind
Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 8 | 0.1 | 46% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6 | 0.1 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.7 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14 | 0.2 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 83.3 | 1.4 | 28% |
| Mischief | 74 | 1.3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.1 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.7 | 1.2 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 30 | 0.5 | 59% |
| Impaired driving | 96.3 | 1.7 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 21.7 | 0.4 | 35% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Cantley is 4th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rothesay New Brunswick | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Hamilton Ontario | 11,810 | 25.7 | 30.4 | A+ |
| 3 | Georgian Bluffs Ontario | 12,061 | 29.2 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 4 | Cantley Quebec | 12,291 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Norwich Ontario | 12,321 | 31.5 | 27.6 | A |
| 6 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec | 12,427 | 32.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 7 | Adjala-Tosorontio Ontario | 11,948 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Carignan Quebec | 12,618 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 12 | Saint-Hippolyte Quebec | 12,550 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 13 | Bromont Quebec | 12,413 | 38.1 | 45.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | L'Île-Perrot Quebec | 11,921 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Clearwater County Alberta | 11,856 | 188.3 | 342.3 | 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 Cantley in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in Cantley: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 31.3, and 2025 the lightest at 26.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cantley | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 30.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 31.3 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Cantley, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 490 violent incidents a year across the police area of 58,700 residents that includes Cantley, 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 410 property crimes and 260 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Cantley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantley | 12,291 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| Chelsea | 8,998 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| Les Rapides | 15,090 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Hautes-Plaines | 6,353 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| La Cité | 30,930 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Des Vallées | 3,575 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Rivière-Gatineau | 14,875 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Cantley. One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared policing. Cantley is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
Questions about safety in Cantley
Is Cantley safe?
The short answer is an index of 29.4 for Cantley (2023–2025), built from 8.4 violent incidents and 7.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the typical index is 66.
What is the most common crime in Cantley?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.1, Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.3 and fraud at 2.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Cantley?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 31.3 to 26.5.
How much of Cantley’s crime do police solve?
49%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Cantley 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).