Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0For recorded crime, Chute-aux-Outardes sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 70 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 68.8 to 72.6. Overall, Chute-aux-Outardes grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Manicouagan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Chute-aux-Outardes
Heavier on violence
Chute-aux-Outardes scores 134 for violence and 45 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Chute-aux-Outardes (61% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Chute-aux-Outardes, 70. 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.
The grade: C+ for Chute-aux-Outardes
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 Chute-aux-Outardes, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Chute-aux-Outardes runs highest on assault (9.1 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 27.3 | 1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 17 | 0.6 | 57% |
| Breaking and entering | 45.7 | 1.6 | 37% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.2 | 46% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 100 | 3.6 | 49% |
| Mischief | 61.3 | 2.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 16.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 110.7 | 4 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 1.9 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 55.3 | 2 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 66.3 | 2.4 | 10% |
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.
Chute-aux-Outardes, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 72.6, with 2024 the lightest at 68.5. 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 | Chute-aux-Outardes | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 68.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.8 | 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 Chute-aux-Outardes, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Chute-aux-Outardes is part of, 27,600 residents, recorded about 570 violent incidents a year (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 350 property crimes and 340 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 Chute-aux-Outardes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chute-aux-Outardes | 1,406 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-aux-Outardes | 1,447 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Ragueneau | 1,287 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-Lebel | 1,800 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Baie-Comeau | 20,660 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
Sharing its police with 4 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Chute-aux-Outardes shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Chute-aux-Outardes
Is Chute-aux-Outardes safe?
Its police recorded 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Chute-aux-Outardes a Crime Severity Index of 70. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Chute-aux-Outardes?
Top of the list is assault (9.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.3, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Chute-aux-Outardes?
It went up 5% between 2023 and 2025, from 68.8 to 72.6.
How much of Chute-aux-Outardes’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 54% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 61% of violent and 46% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Chute-aux-Outardes 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).