Photo: Harfang · CC BY 3.0Nantes has less crime per resident than 71% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 81.3 and other offences to 35.6, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. On the record of crime the police covering Nantes reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety. Even so, the local count comes to 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Granit MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Nantes
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Nantes’s police clear 52%, 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Nantes’s index splits into violent crime, 81.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 35.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Nantes scores 48.4. 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 sits behind Nantes’s B+
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.
Around 290 violent incidents a year in the 22,700-resident police area around Nantes, 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 230 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
What police record in Nantes, by type
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 16.7 | 0.7 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 1.3 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.9 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.2 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 1.7 | 44% |
| Mischief | 46 | 2 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 40 | 1.8 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Drug violations | 27.7 | 1.2 | 51% |
| Impaired driving | 33.7 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 22 | 1 | 9% |
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.
Nantes’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (52) and 2025 the trough (46.2). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Nantes | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Nantes, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Nantes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes | 1,412 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lac-Mégantic | 5,947 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Frontenac | 1,855 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Lac-Drolet | 1,066 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- 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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “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 Nantes alone.
Questions about safety in Nantes
Is Nantes safe?
Its police recorded 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Nantes a Crime Severity Index of 48.4. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Nantes?
Assault is the most common, at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.8) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Nantes?
Hardly at all, from 47 in 2023 to 46.2 in 2025.
How much of Nantes’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 67% of violent crime and 39% of everything else, 52% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Nantes 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).