Photo: Ian Schofield · CC BY 2.0Inukjuak has more crime per resident than almost every Canadian town
Counting crime the police covering Inukjuak reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety. About 64% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Annual rates stand at 447.5 violent incidents and 87.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 2,056.5 for violence and 312.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Nunavik Region service area.
What stands out about safety in Inukjuak
Assault: high for a town its size
Inukjuak records 227.4 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Inukjuak moved from 659.6 to 956.3, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Inukjuak scores 2,056.5 for violence and 312.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 805.8 in Inukjuak. 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.
Inukjuak: D− 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.
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, Inukjuak’s index climbed 45%
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 956.3 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 659.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Inukjuak | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 956.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 801.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 659.6 | 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 Inukjuak, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Inukjuak, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Inukjuak runs highest on assault (227.4 per 1,000 against 6.7), sexual assault (20.7 per 1,000 against 0.8) and mischief (54.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 85.7 | 5.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 261.3 | 18 | 69% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 51.7 | 3.6 | 70% |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 66.7 | 4.6 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 221.3 | 15.2 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 74.7 | 5.1 | 32% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 120 | 8.3 | 32% |
| Mischief | 788 | 54.2 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 85 | 5.9 | 31% |
| Administration of justice violations | 615 | 42.3 | 61% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 255.3 | 17.6 | 67% |
| Drug violations | 66.7 | 4.6 | 44% |
| Impaired driving | 589.3 | 40.7 | 39% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23 | 1.6 | 51% |
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.
The police area Inukjuak is part of, 14,600 residents, recorded about 6,510 violent incidents a year (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 1,270 property crimes, plus 1,930 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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 service, several municipalities. Inukjuak is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Inukjuak
Is Inukjuak safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 805.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Inukjuak stands, with 447.5 violent and 87.1 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Inukjuak?
Most often it is assault: 227.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 77.1 and mischief at 54.2.
Is crime going up in Inukjuak?
Yes: the index rose 45%, from 659.6 in 2023 to 956.3 in 2025.
How much of Inukjuak’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 72% of violent crime and 45% of everything else, 64% 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 Inukjuak 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).