Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0Mont-Carmel records less crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 42.1 to 40.2. Violence accounts for an index of 72 and other offences for 31, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Mont-Carmel reported put it at A− for safety. Per 1,000 residents a year, 11.1 violent incidents and 9.8 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Kamouraska MRC.
What stands out about safety in Mont-Carmel
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Mont-Carmel’s police clear 58%, 71% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Mont-Carmel’s index splits into violent crime, 72 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 31 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Mont-Carmel, 42.5. 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.
What’s behind Mont-Carmel’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
21,500 residents, about 240 violent incidents a year: the police area Mont-Carmel belongs to, 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 210 property crimes, plus 160 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 police record in Mont-Carmel, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12.7 | 0.6 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 84% |
| Breaking and entering | 32 | 1.5 | 41% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.7 | 0.6 | 42% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49 | 2.3 | 43% |
| Mischief | 42 | 2 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 11.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Administration of justice violations | 43.7 | 2 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Drug violations | 16.3 | 0.8 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 38.7 | 1.8 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 27 | 1.3 | 22% |
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.
Mont-Carmel, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 45.1, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 40.2. 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 | Mont-Carmel | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 42.1 | 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 Mont-Carmel, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Mont-Carmel
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Carmel | 1,191 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Pacôme | 1,540 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Saint-Pascal | 3,516 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Rivière-Ouelle | 1,014 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière | 1,635 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| La Pocatière | 4,206 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
The table leaves out 5 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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 Mont-Carmel alone.
Questions about safety in Mont-Carmel
Is Mont-Carmel safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Mont-Carmel scores 42.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 11.1 violent and 9.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Mont-Carmel?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.8, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.7 and fraud at 3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Mont-Carmel?
Not much: the index went from 42.1 in 2023 to 40.2 in 2025.
How much of Mont-Carmel’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 71% of violent crime and 46% of everything else, 58% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Mont-Carmel and everywhere else it polices.
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).