Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Chambord runs higher than in 62% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 73.3 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, a Safety Grade of C+ follows from crime the police covering Chambord reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 19.7 violent incidents and 18.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less 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 Domaine-du-Roy MRC.
What stands out about safety in Chambord
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 59% for Chambord (73% violent, 49% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Chambord’s index of 73.3 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Chambord scores 114.4 for violence and 57.5 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.
What’s behind Chambord’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.
Crime in Chambord, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Chambord runs highest on drug offences (3.6 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (9.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 21.7 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 18.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 22.3 | 0.8 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 84.3 | 2.9 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.3 | 1.9 | 26% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14.3 | 0.5 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 151.7 | 5.2 | 55% |
| Mischief | 78.3 | 2.7 | 40% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.4 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 93.7 | 3.2 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 104.3 | 3.6 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 65.3 | 2.2 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 51 | 1.7 | 27% |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Chambord’s index climbed 13%
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 78, with 2023 the lightest at 66.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Chambord | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 66.6 | 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 Chambord, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 580 violent incidents a year in the 29,200-resident police area around Chambord, 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 540 a year and other violations 370 (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 Chambord
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chambord | 1,800 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Desbiens | 1,034 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix | 4,230 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Roberval | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
The places around Chambord all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Desbiens (7.5 km away), scores 49.6 against 73.3. Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Chambord shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Chambord
Is Chambord safe?
Chambord’s Crime Severity Index is 73.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 19.7 violent incidents and 18.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Chambord?
Police record assault most, 9.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (5.2) and fraud (4.7).
Is crime going up in Chambord?
Up 13%: 66.6 in 2023, 75.4 in 2025.
How much of Chambord’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 73% of violent crime and 49% of everything else, 59% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Chambord 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).