Photo: Jouu31 · Public domainFor recorded crime, Les Escoumins sits in the middle of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 72.5, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. What’s more, its letter overall is C+: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 20.1 violent incidents and 14.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Haute-Côte-Nord MRC).
What stands out about safety in Les Escoumins
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Les Escoumins stood at 55.8, by 2025 at 91.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Les Escoumins’s police clear 54%, 64% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Les Escoumins’s index splits into violent crime, 127.6 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 51.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Les Escoumins, 72.5. 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 C+ for Les Escoumins, 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.
Les Escoumins’s index rose 64% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 91.7; the lightest was 2023, at 55.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Les Escoumins | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.8 | 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 Les Escoumins, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Les Escoumins, by type
Against the typical town its size, Les Escoumins runs highest on assault (8.4 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.6 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15.7 | 1.6 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 2.5 | 36% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.3 | 1.3 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 27 | 2.8 | 32% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 2.7 | 34% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.6 | 79% |
| Administration of justice violations | 49.7 | 5.1 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 1.5 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 29.7 | 3 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 12.7 | 1.3 | 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 people or more.
The police area Les Escoumins is part of, 9,750 residents, recorded about 200 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.
Add about 140 property crimes and 130 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Les Escoumins
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Escoumins | 1,751 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| Trois-Pistoles (31 km) | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Sacré-Coeur (32 km) | 1,679 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (33 km) | 1,146 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| L'Isle-Verte (38 km) | 1,427 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Fabien (41 km) | 1,866 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
The places around Les Escoumins all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Trois-Pistoles (30.7 km away), scores 52.3 against 72.5. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 31–41 km from Les Escoumins.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Les Escoumins among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Les Escoumins
Is Les Escoumins safe?
With 20.1 violent incidents and 14.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Les Escoumins comes to 72.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Les Escoumins?
Most often it is assault: 8.4 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 Les Escoumins?
It went up 64% between 2023 and 2025, from 55.8 to 91.7.
How much of Les Escoumins’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 64% of violent crime and 44% of everything else, 54% 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 Les Escoumins 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).