Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Nominingue has more crime per resident than 61% of Canadian towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, in 2023 the index stood at 68.6; it rose to 72.3 in 2025. On crime the police covering Nominingue reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 73.1 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for 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: one figure for all of the Antoine-Labelle MRC.
What stands out about safety in Nominingue
Visitors count, residents divide
With 39% of its homes not lived in all year, Nominingue counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 62% of Nominingue’s crime, weighted by seriousness (82% of violent crime, 41% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Nominingue’s two halves part ways: 131 for violence (typical 86.4) and 50.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Nominingue’s index of 73.1 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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.
Inside Nominingue’s C+ for safety
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.
Nominingue’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Nominingue runs highest on assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 35.3 | 0.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 2.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73 | 1.9 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 155 | 4.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 116.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 146.3 | 3.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 63.3 | 1.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 93.3 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 70 | 1.8 | 13% |
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.
Nominingue, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 78.4; 2023 was lightest, at 68.6. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Nominingue | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.6 | 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 Nominingue, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
38,200 residents, about 770 violent incidents a year: the police area Nominingue 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.
Add about 630 property crimes and 450 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Nominingue
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominingue | 2,290 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,882 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| La Minerve | 1,492 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Nominingue shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Nominingue
Is Nominingue safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Nominingue’s Crime Severity Index stands at 73.1 for 2023–2025. Its police record 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Nominingue?
Police record assault most, 10 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (5).
Is crime going up in Nominingue?
Yes: the index rose 5%, from 68.6 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025.
How much of Nominingue’s crime do police solve?
62%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 82% and non-violent crime at 41%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Nominingue 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).