Photo: Minoumi · CC BY 3.0Per resident, Matane records less crime than 63% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 85.4 and 41.8. Steady over the three years, the index read 53.6 in 2023 and 55.7 in 2025. On the record of crime the police covering Matane reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B for safety: #218 of 503 in Quebec. Behind the grade sit 15.3 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Matane MRC.
What stands out about safety in Matane
Police clear more here
Police cleared 59% of Matane’s crime, weighted by seriousness (76% of violent crime, 47% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Matane stands 19th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 53.9 in Matane. 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.
What’s behind Matane’s grade
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: #218 of 503 in Quebec and #691 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Matane’s crime by kind
Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.7 | 0.5 | 59% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 42.7 | 2 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 0.9 | 44% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.5 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79 | 3.7 | 51% |
| Mischief | 48.7 | 2.3 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.5 | 97% |
| Administration of justice violations | 69 | 3.3 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 0.9 | 80% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 44.3 | 2.1 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Matane, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 55.7, and 2024 lowest at 52.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Matane | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.7 | 60 |
| 2024 | 52.5 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 53.6 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Matane, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 330 violent incidents a year in the 21,200-resident police area around Matane, 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 290 a year and other violations 210 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Matane is 19th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Saint-Amable Quebec | 14,119 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 11 | Sainte-Marie Quebec | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 12 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Rosemère Quebec | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 17 | Durham Ontario | 14,355 | 51.9 | 63.2 | B+ |
| 18 | Limoges Ontario | 15,122 | 53.9 | 62.3 | B |
| 19 | Matane Quebec | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| 20 | Mountain View County Alberta | 14,802 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| 21 | Lorette Manitoba | 13,509 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 22 | Carleton Place Ontario | 14,837 | 61.2 | 94.7 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Matane in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Matane
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matane | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Sainte-Félicité | 1,053 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| Saint-Ulric | 1,658 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Matane shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Matane
Is Matane safe?
Its police recorded 15.3 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Matane a Crime Severity Index of 53.9. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in Matane?
Most often it is assault: 6.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.4.
Is crime going up in Matane?
Hardly at all, from 53.6 in 2023 to 55.7 in 2025.
How much of Matane’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 76% of violent crime and 47% of everything else, 59% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Matane 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).