Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Percé is close to typical for Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 69.4 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Across all the graded crimes, Percé lands on C+ (#354 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, the index rose from 60.8 in 2023 to 70.2 in 2025. Violence and property crime split as 23.9 violent incidents and 10.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 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. Measured across the Rocher-Percé MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Percé
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Tourists, seasonal staff and day visitors fill Percé, but Statistics Canada counts its rates per usual resident: every figure here is stretched by people who don’t live in it. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 69% of crime in Percé ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 80% of violent crime and 54% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 134.9 on Percé’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 43.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Percé is 27th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Percé: C+ for safety, and why
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: #354 of 503 in Quebec and #1,358 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.
Which crimes make up Percé’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Percé runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (9.7 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 13.7 | 0.8 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6 | 0.4 | 78% |
| Other violent violations | 11 | 0.6 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 1.4 | 43% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11 | 0.6 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 26.7 | 1.6 | 34% |
| Mischief | 55.3 | 3.2 | 38% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 84.7 | 4.9 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 86% |
| Drug violations | 35.3 | 2.1 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 2.6 | 83% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 25 | 1.5 | 16% |
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.
Percé, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 77.3; 2023 was lightest, at 60.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Percé | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 77.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 60.8 | 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 Percé, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Percé is 27th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Beaumont Quebec | 3,188 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 5 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Quebec | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 6 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Quebec | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 7 | Paspébiac Quebec | 3,132 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 3,198 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 25 | Kingsclear New Brunswick | 3,158 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 26 | Normandin Quebec | 3,065 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| 27 | Percé Quebec | 3,137 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| 28 | Cap-Pelé New Brunswick | 3,092 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Welcome Beach British Columbia | 3,130 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 30 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 3,073 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | 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 Percé in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 410 violent incidents a year in the 17,100-resident police area around Percé, 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 170 a year and other violations 240 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Percé
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percé | 3,137 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé (17 km) | 1,009 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Grande-Rivière (24 km) | 3,318 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Gaspé (30 km) | 15,479 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
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. No closer places have figures: these lie 17–30 km from Percé.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Percé alone.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Percé
Is Percé safe?
Percé measures 69.4 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 23.9 violent incidents and 10 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Percé?
Most often it is assault: 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.6 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.
Is crime going up in Percé?
Up 16%: 60.8 in 2023, 70.2 in 2025.
How much of Percé’s crime do police solve?
About 69% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 80% of violent and 54% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Percé 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).