Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Ferme-Neuve records more crime than three in five Canadian towns
The Safety Grade comes out at C+, drawn from crime the police covering Ferme-Neuve reported through 2023 to 2025: #369 of 503 in Quebec. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 68.6 to 72.3. Behind the grade sit 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 73.1 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Antoine-Labelle MRC.
What stands out about safety in Ferme-Neuve
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 62% of crime in Ferme-Neuve ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 82% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 131 on Ferme-Neuve’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 50.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Ferme-Neuve scores 73.1. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Ferme-Neuve is 23rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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 Ferme-Neuve’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: #369 of 503 in Quebec and #1,539 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 Ferme-Neuve’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Ferme-Neuve runs highest on assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 35.3 | 0.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 2.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73 | 1.9 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 155 | 4.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 116.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 146.3 | 3.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 63.3 | 1.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 93.3 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 70 | 1.8 | 13% |
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.
Ferme-Neuve, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 78.4, with 2023 the lightest at 68.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Ferme-Neuve | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 78.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 68.6 | 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 Ferme-Neuve, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Ferme-Neuve places 23rd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 7 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Cultus Lake British Columbia | 2,773 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| 21 | Forestville Quebec | 2,835 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| 22 | Bedford Quebec | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 23 | Ferme-Neuve Quebec | 2,816 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Prime Quebec | 2,808 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 25 | Gore Quebec | 2,756 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 26 | Little Current Ontario | 2,764 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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 Ferme-Neuve in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
38,200 residents, about 770 violent incidents a year: the police area Ferme-Neuve 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.
Property crime adds about 630 a year and other violations 450 (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 Ferme-Neuve
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferme-Neuve | 2,816 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Mont-Laurier | 14,598 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Lac-des-Écorces | 3,005 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Ferme-Neuve alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Ferme-Neuve
Is Ferme-Neuve safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Ferme-Neuve’s Crime Severity Index stands at 73.1 for 2023–2025. Its police record 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Ferme-Neuve?
Assault is the most common, at 10 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (5.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (5).
Is crime going up in Ferme-Neuve?
It went up 5% between 2023 and 2025, from 68.6 to 72.3.
How much of Ferme-Neuve’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 62%: 82% for violent crime and 41% 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 Ferme-Neuve 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).