Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Palmarolle than in 63% of Canadian towns
Measured on crime the police covering Palmarolle reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+. On top of that, its Crime Severity Index averaged 75.8 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Each year brought 23.4 violent incidents and 14.4 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). By 2025 the index had dropped to 76.7, down from 84.1 in 2023.
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 Abitibi-Ouest MRC.
What stands out about safety in Palmarolle
Police clear more here
Police cleared 57% of Palmarolle’s crime, weighted by seriousness (70% of violent crime, 44% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Palmarolle’s two halves part ways: 140 for violence (typical 86.4) and 50.7 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Palmarolle scores 75.8. 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 Palmarolle’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.
Palmarolle, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 84.1, and its lowest 2024, at 66.5. 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 | Palmarolle | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 66.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 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 Palmarolle, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Palmarolle’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Palmarolle runs highest on assault (9.5 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15.7 | 0.8 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.5 | 68% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.2 | 86% |
| Other violent violations | 14.3 | 0.7 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 47.3 | 2.3 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.6 | 52% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.3 | 3.3 | 36% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 3.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.4 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 106.7 | 5.2 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.3 | 0.6 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 39.7 | 1.9 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 42 | 2.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 26.7 | 1.3 | 35% |
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.
The police area Palmarolle is part of, 20,400 residents, recorded about 480 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 290 property crimes, plus 260 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 Palmarolle
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Palmarolle shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Palmarolle
Is Palmarolle safe?
Palmarolle’s Crime Severity Index is 75.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 23.4 violent incidents and 14.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Palmarolle?
Top of the list is assault (9.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.9, and fraud, at 4.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Palmarolle?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 9%, to 76.7 from 84.1.
How much of Palmarolle’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 70% of violent crime and 44% of everything else, 57% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Palmarolle 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).