Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Caplan than in 73% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had climbed to 49.7, up from 45 in 2023. Violence accounts for an index of 75.4 and other offences for 37, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering Caplan reported through 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 12.4 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they 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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Avignon/Bonaventure MRC.
What stands out about safety in Caplan
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Caplan ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 66% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 75.4 on Caplan’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 37 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Caplan’s index of 47.7 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 Caplan’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.
Which crimes make up Caplan’s figures
Fraud 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 | 21 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.7 | 0.2 | 58% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10.7 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Breaking and entering | 56.3 | 1.8 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 1.1 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.2 | 38% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 87.7 | 2.8 | 43% |
| Mischief | 70.7 | 2.3 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 82 | 2.7 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 17 | 0.6 | 66% |
| Drug violations | 34.3 | 1.1 | 59% |
| Impaired driving | 36 | 1.2 | 83% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 30 | 1 | 21% |
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.
Caplan, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (49.7) and 2023 least (45). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Caplan | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 45 | 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 Caplan, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
30,900 residents, about 380 violent incidents a year: the police area Caplan 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.
And about 360 property crimes, plus 230 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 Caplan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caplan | 1,961 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Siméon | 1,254 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| New Richmond | 3,947 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Bonaventure | 2,719 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Caplan alone.
- 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. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Caplan
Is Caplan safe?
Its police recorded 12.4 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Caplan a Crime Severity Index of 47.7. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Caplan?
Top of the list is assault (5.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 3.8, and theft under $5,000, at 2.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Caplan?
Up 11%: 45 in 2023, 49.7 in 2025.
How much of Caplan’s crime do police solve?
About 52% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 66% of violent and 41% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Caplan 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).