Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · Public domainMont-Joli is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 65 in 2023 to 60.2 by 2025. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 67.8 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Overall, Mont-Joli grades B− for safety (#326 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 19.8 violent incidents and 13.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Mitis MRC.
What stands out about safety in Mont-Joli
Violent crime leads the index
Mont-Joli’s index splits into violent crime, 133.2 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 42.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Mont-Joli’s police clear 60%, 73% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Mont-Joli is 22nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Mont-Joli scores 67.8. 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-Joli’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: #326 of 503 in Quebec and #1,304 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.
What police record in Mont-Joli, by type
Against the typical town its size, Mont-Joli runs highest on drug offences (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.7), sexual assault (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.9) and assault (9.2 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.3 | 0.8 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 1 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.3 | 1.9 | 49% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62 | 3.3 | 53% |
| Mischief | 69.7 | 3.8 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 109.3 | 5.9 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.7 | 0.7 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 24.7 | 1.3 | 58% |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 33.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
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.
Mont-Joli, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 78.1; 2025 was lightest, at 60.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Mont-Joli | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 78.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 65 | 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 Mont-Joli, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Mont-Joli stands 22nd of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Charlemagne Quebec | 6,695 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Pontiac Quebec | 6,490 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Pointe-Calumet Quebec | 6,427 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Les Coteaux Quebec | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Oliver Paipoonge Ontario | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 20 | Electoral Area A, Cariboo British Columbia | 6,172 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,486 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | Mont-Joli Quebec | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| 23 | Humboldt Saskatchewan | 6,551 | 71.5 | 72.5 | C+ |
| 24 | Kings County, Subdivision D Nova Scotia | 6,517 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 25 | Lac-Brome Quebec | 6,307 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Mont-Joli in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Mont-Joli is part of, 18,500 residents, recorded about 370 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.
And about 250 property crimes, plus 240 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Mont-Joli
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Joli | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Price | 1,701 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici | 1,005 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Sainte-Luce | 2,808 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski | 1,239 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
4 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Mont-Joli among them.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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 Mont-Joli
Is Mont-Joli safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 67.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Mont-Joli stands, with 19.8 violent and 13.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Mont-Joli?
Most often it is assault: 9.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.
Is crime going up in Mont-Joli?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 7%, to 60.2 from 65.
How much of Mont-Joli’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 60% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 73% of violent and 46% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Mont-Joli 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).