Photo: busand2003 · CC BY 3.0Per resident, Grande-Rivière records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 69.4, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5. Year on year, 23.9 violent incidents and 10.0 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#354 of 503 in Quebec), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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 Rocher-Percé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Grande-Rivière
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Grande-Rivière’s police clear 69%, 80% of violent crime and 54% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Grande-Rivière’s index splits into violent crime, 134.9 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 43.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Up since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Grande-Rivière moved from 60.8 to 70.2, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Grande-Rivière’s index of 69.4 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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.
Grande-Rivière: C+ for safety, and why
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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What police record in Grande-Rivière, by type
Against the typical town its size, Grande-Rivière runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.7), sexual assault (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9) and assault (9.7 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 13.7 | 0.8 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6 | 0.4 | 78% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.6 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 1.4 | 43% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11 | 0.6 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 26.7 | 1.6 | 34% |
| Mischief | 55.3 | 3.2 | 38% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 84.7 | 4.9 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 86% |
| Drug violations | 35.3 | 2.1 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 2.6 | 83% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 25 | 1.5 | 16% |
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.
Year by year in Grande-Rivière: up 16%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 77.3; 2023 was the lightest, at 60.8. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Grande-Rivière | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 77.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 60.8 | 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 Grande-Rivière, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 410 violent incidents a year across the police area of 17,100 residents that includes Grande-Rivière, 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 170 property crimes, plus 240 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, Grande-Rivière stands 20th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Quebec | 3,400 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste Quebec | 3,332 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Quebec | 3,330 | 43.7 | 73 | A− |
| 9 | Compton Quebec | 3,351 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Channel-Port aux Basques Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,379 | 66.8 | 62.8 | B− |
| 18 | Inverness County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 3,314 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 19 | Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Quebec | 3,328 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 20 | Grande-Rivière Quebec | 3,318 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| 21 | Saint-André-d'Argenteuil Quebec | 3,300 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 22 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 3,256 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 23 | Placentia Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,374 | 79.6 | 65.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Inuvik Northwest Territories | 3,337 | 718.3 | 807.9 | 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 Grande-Rivière in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Grande-Rivière
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grande-Rivière | 3,318 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé | 1,009 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Chandler | 7,323 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Grande-Rivière among them.
Questions about safety in Grande-Rivière
Is Grande-Rivière safe?
Police-reported crime in Grande-Rivière scores 69.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 23.9 violent incidents and 10 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Grande-Rivière?
Most often it is assault: 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.6 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.
Is crime going up in Grande-Rivière?
It went up 16% between 2023 and 2025, from 60.8 to 70.2.
How much of Grande-Rivière’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 80% of violent crime and 54% of everything else, 69% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Grande-Rivière 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).