Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Dégelis sees less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 81.1 and other offences to 43.4, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. Counting crime the police covering Dégelis reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety: #218 of 503 in Quebec. Annual rates stand at 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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 Témiscouata MRC.
What stands out about safety in Dégelis
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 56% of crime in Dégelis ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 69% of violent crime and 47% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Easing since 2023
From 56.4 in 2023 to 45.4 in 2025: that is Dégelis’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Dégelis stands 21st, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 81.1 on Dégelis’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 43.4 against 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.
Inside Dégelis’s B for safety
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: #218 of 503 in Quebec and #691 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Dégelis’s figures
Mischief 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 | 12.3 | 0.6 | 46% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 2.2 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.7 | 0.8 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41.7 | 2.1 | 41% |
| Mischief | 47.7 | 2.4 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.5 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61 | 3.1 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 48% |
| Drug violations | 26.3 | 1.3 | 87% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 1.8 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 21 | 1.1 | 25% |
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 to 10,000 people.
In Dégelis, down 19% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 59.6; 2025 was lightest, at 45.4. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Dégelis | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 59.6 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 56.4 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Dégelis, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 270 violent incidents a year across the police area of 20,000 residents that includes Dégelis, 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 240 property crimes, plus 190 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
By its index, Dégelis stands 21st of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorne Manitoba | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Quebec | 2,999 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 7 | Stanstead Quebec | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Saint-Bruno Quebec | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 19 | Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Quebec | 2,940 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 20 | Springdale Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,893 | 49.9 | 56.6 | B+ |
| 21 | Dégelis Quebec | 2,943 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| 22 | Vanscoy No. 345 Saskatchewan | 3,029 | 54.2 | 56.3 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford Quebec | 2,891 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 24 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon Quebec | 2,916 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | 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 Dégelis in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Dégelis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dégelis | 2,943 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Jacques (22 km) | 1,763 | 36.3 | 44.6 | A |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (23 km) | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Joseph (26 km) | 1,641 | 36.3 | 44.6 | A |
| Rivière-Bleue (29 km) | 1,310 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Edmundston (29 km) | 18,174 | 85 | 102.4 | C |
Dégelis sits above 2 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. Saint-Jacques, 22.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 36.3 to 53.8. 2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 22–29 km from Dégelis.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Dégelis alone.
Questions about safety in Dégelis
Is Dégelis safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Dégelis comes to 53.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Dégelis?
Top of the list is assault (6.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Dégelis?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 19%, to 45.4 from 56.4.
How much of Dégelis’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 56%: 69% for violent crime and 47% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Dégelis 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).