Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fort-Coulonge has less crime per resident than 60% of Canadian towns
The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Fort-Coulonge reported from 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 83.9 for violence and 44.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The yearly rates were 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. By 2025 the index had dropped to 54.2, down from 57.5 in 2023.
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 Pontiac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Fort-Coulonge
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 63% of Fort-Coulonge’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 51% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Fort-Coulonge’s two halves part ways: 83.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 44.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Fort-Coulonge scores 55.7. 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: B for Fort-Coulonge
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.
Fort-Coulonge, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 57.5 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 54.2. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Fort-Coulonge | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 57.5 | 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 Fort-Coulonge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Fort-Coulonge’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Fort-Coulonge runs highest on assault (8.4 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 0.6 | 78% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.3 | 1.6 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 35 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 37.3 | 2.5 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 59 | 4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.5 | 82% |
| Drug violations | 37.3 | 2.5 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.7 | 0.9 | 29% |
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.
About 250 violent incidents a year across the police area of 15,000 residents that includes Fort-Coulonge, 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 190 a year and other violations 190 (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 Fort-Coulonge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort-Coulonge | 1,293 | 55.7 | 83.9 | B |
| Mansfield-et-Pontefract | 2,332 | 55.7 | 83.9 | B |
| Whitewater Region | 7,899 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Fort-Coulonge shares it with its neighbours.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Fort-Coulonge
Is Fort-Coulonge safe?
The short answer is an index of 55.7 for Fort-Coulonge (2023–2025), built from 16.9 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Fort-Coulonge?
Police record assault most, 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.4) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.6).
Is crime going up in Fort-Coulonge?
No: the index fell 6%, from 57.5 in 2023 to 54.2 in 2025.
How much of Fort-Coulonge’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 79% of violent crime and 51% of everything else, 63% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Fort-Coulonge together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).