Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Grande-Vallée sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Weighing it all, Grande-Vallée earns B for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Still, in a usual year, 15.8 violent incidents and 11.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 57.9 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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: the Côte-de-Gaspé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Grande-Vallée
Down since 2023
Grande-Vallée’s index went from 73.4 in 2023 to 51 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 74% of crime in Grande-Vallée ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 86% of violent crime and 61% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 106.1 on Grande-Vallée’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 39.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Grande-Vallée’s index of 57.9 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.
The B for Grande-Vallée, and how it is built
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Grande-Vallée’s index dropped 30%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 73.4, against a low of 49.4 in 2024. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Grande-Vallée | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 49.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 73.4 | 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 Grande-Vallée, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
17,900 residents, about 280 violent incidents a year: the police area Grande-Vallée 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.
And about 200 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.
Which crimes make up Grande-Vallée’s figures
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 53% |
| Breaking and entering | 26.7 | 1.5 | 69% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 46.3 | 2.6 | 52% |
| Mischief | 53.7 | 3 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 62.7 | 3.5 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.4 | 59% |
| Drug violations | 20.3 | 1.1 | 74% |
| Impaired driving | 38 | 2.1 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 33 | 1.8 | 18% |
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.
Crime in the places around Grande-Vallée
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grande-Vallée | 1,087 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
| Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis (37 km) | 1,031 | 70.1 | 128 | C+ |
| Gaspé (64 km) | 15,479 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
| Percé (91 km) | 3,137 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Monts (97 km) | 6,099 | 70.1 | 128 | C+ |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé (101 km) | 1,009 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
The places around Grande-Vallée all score higher on the index. One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Grande-Vallée with figures are 37–101 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Grande-Vallée among them.
Questions about safety in Grande-Vallée
Is Grande-Vallée safe?
Police-reported crime in Grande-Vallée scores 57.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 15.8 violent incidents and 11.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Grande-Vallée?
Assault is the most common, at 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (4.6) and other Criminal Code offences (4.6).
Is crime going up in Grande-Vallée?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 30%, to 51 from 73.4.
How much of Grande-Vallée’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 74% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 86% of violent crime and 61% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Grande-Vallée 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).