Photo: Johny-le-cowboy · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Dolbeau-Mistassini is close to typical for Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 107.3 and its non-violent half to 54.1, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Year on year, 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Across all the graded crimes, Dolbeau-Mistassini lands on C+ (#354 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The index held steady between 2023 (69.9) and 2025 (66.5).
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. Shared with the rest of the Maria-Chapdelaine MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Dolbeau-Mistassini
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 59% for Dolbeau-Mistassini (71% violent, 49% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Dolbeau-Mistassini stands 26th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 68.9 in Dolbeau-Mistassini. 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini’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.
Its place: #354 of 503 in Quebec and #1,358 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.
Crime in Dolbeau-Mistassini, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Dolbeau-Mistassini runs highest on sexual assault (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.8), break and enter (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.2) and drug offences (1 per 1,000 against 0.8). 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 | 20.7 | 0.8 | 76% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.9 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 76.7 | 3.2 | 42% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97 | 4 | 45% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 2.4 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.3 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 2.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 25.3 | 1 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 45 | 1.8 | 19% |
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.
Dolbeau-Mistassini is 26th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Saint-Amable Quebec | 14,119 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Sainte-Marie Quebec | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 14 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Rawdon Quebec | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 24 | Lorette Manitoba | 13,509 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 25 | Sidney British Columbia | 13,445 | 68.4 | 72.4 | B− |
| 26 | Dolbeau-Mistassini Quebec | 13,581 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| 27 | Ayr Ontario | 13,051 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| 28 | Kings County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 12,661 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 29 | Colchester County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 14,211 | 72.9 | 100.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Dolbeau-Mistassini, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 70.3, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 66.5. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Dolbeau-Mistassini | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 70.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 69.9 | 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 420 violent incidents a year in the 24,300-resident police area around Dolbeau-Mistassini, 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 430 a year and other violations 220 (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 Dolbeau-Mistassini
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolbeau-Mistassini | 13,581 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc | 1,111 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| Albanel | 2,191 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Dolbeau-Mistassini among them.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Dolbeau-Mistassini
Is Dolbeau-Mistassini safe?
With 17.1 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Dolbeau-Mistassini comes to 68.9 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people have a median of 66.
What is the most common crime in Dolbeau-Mistassini?
Most often it is assault: 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 4.2 and theft under $5,000 at 4.
Is crime going up in Dolbeau-Mistassini?
Not much: the index went from 69.9 in 2023 to 66.5 in 2025.
How much of Dolbeau-Mistassini’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 71% of violent crime and 49% of everything else, 59% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Dolbeau-Mistassini 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).