Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Macamic has more crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 23.4 violent incidents and 14.4 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Add to that, its letter for safety is C+, worked out from crime the police covering Macamic reported over 2023 to 2025: #382 of 503 in Quebec. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 84.1 to 76.7. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 75.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5.
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 for the Abitibi-Ouest MRC.
What stands out about safety in Macamic
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 57% for Macamic (70% violent, 44% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Macamic scores 140 for violence and 50.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Macamic scores 75.8. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Macamic is 21st of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Macamic: 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: #382 of 503 in Quebec and #1,575 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.
Crime in Macamic, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Macamic runs highest on drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (9.5 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief 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 | 15.7 | 0.8 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 14.3 | 0.7 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 47.3 | 2.3 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.6 | 52% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.3 | 3.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 3.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.4 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 106.7 | 5.2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.3 | 0.6 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 39.7 | 1.9 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 42 | 2.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 26.7 | 1.3 | 35% |
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.
Macamic, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 84.1 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 66.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Macamic | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 66.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 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 Macamic, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 480 violent incidents a year in the 20,400-resident police area around Macamic, 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 290 property crimes, plus 260 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Macamic comes 21st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grey Manitoba | 2,655 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Saint-Bernard Quebec | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse Quebec | 2,739 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 5 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 6 | Saint-Mathieu Quebec | 2,642 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Wickham Quebec | 2,745 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 19 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 73.3 | 54.3 | C+ |
| 20 | Spaniard's Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,664 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| 21 | Macamic Quebec | 2,698 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| 22 | Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 2,691 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 23 | Hanna Alberta | 2,665 | 76.9 | 65.8 | C+ |
| 24 | Victoria County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 2,746 | 82.8 | 120.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | 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 Macamic in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Macamic
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macamic | 2,698 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| La Sarre | 7,199 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| Palmarolle | 1,425 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Macamic alone.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Macamic
Is Macamic safe?
With 23.4 violent incidents and 14.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Macamic comes to 75.8 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Macamic?
Top of the list is assault (9.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.9, and fraud, at 4.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Macamic?
The reverse: 84.1 in 2023 came down to 76.7 by 2025, 9% lower.
How much of Macamic’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 57% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 70% of violent and 44% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Macamic and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).