Photo: Vintotal · CC BY-SA 3.0Mashteuiatsh has more crime per resident than nine in ten Canadian towns
Its 3 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Mashteuiatsh grades D for safety on crime the police covering Mashteuiatsh reported from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 77.1 violent incidents and 37.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 436.6 and 95.4.
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.
What stands out about safety in Mashteuiatsh
Assault: high for a town its size
Mashteuiatsh records 48.8 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 ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Mashteuiatsh’s two halves part ways: 436.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 95.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Mashteuiatsh’s index of 191.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 63% of Mashteuiatsh’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 48% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Mashteuiatsh’s D
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.
Mashteuiatsh’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Mashteuiatsh runs highest on assault (48.8 per 1,000 against 6.7), sexual assault (5.2 per 1,000 against 0.8) and drug offences (3.2 per 1,000 against 0.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.3 | 2.6 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.3 | 2.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 3.7 | 56% |
| Breaking and entering | 9.7 | 4.7 | 24% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 6 | 2.9 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23 | 11.1 | 39% |
| Mischief | 22.3 | 10.8 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 1.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.7 | 12.9 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 2.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 3.2 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 6.3 | 3.1 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
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.
About 160 violent incidents a year reached Mashteuiatsh’s police, 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.
Property crime adds about 77 a year and other violations 51 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Mashteuiatsh’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 240.5, against a low of 159.5 in 2024. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mashteuiatsh | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 159.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 240.5 | 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 Mashteuiatsh, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Mashteuiatsh
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mashteuiatsh | 2,074 | 191.7 | 436.6 | D |
| Roberval | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Prime | 2,808 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Saint-Félicien | 10,143 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Mashteuiatsh. Closest is Roberval, 6.9 km away, at 73.3 to 191.7 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Read with care. With roughly 2,074 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Mashteuiatsh
Is Mashteuiatsh safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Mashteuiatsh scores 191.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 77.1 violent and 37.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Mashteuiatsh?
Top of the list is assault (48.8 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 17.2, and theft under $5,000, at 11.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Mashteuiatsh?
No: the index fell 27%, from 240.5 in 2023 to 175 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Mashteuiatsh’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 73% of violent crime and 48% of everything else, 63% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
They are Mashteuiatsh’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).