Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Pohénégamook has less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 53.8 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on the record of crime the police covering Pohénégamook reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B for safety. Police counts work out at 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Témiscouata MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Pohénégamook
Police clear more here
Police cleared 56% of Pohénégamook’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 47% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Pohénégamook’s index went from 56.4 in 2023 to 45.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Pohénégamook’s two halves part ways: 81.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 43.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Near the Quebec middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Pohénégamook, 53.8. 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 Pohénégamook’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.
Pohénégamook’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12.3 | 0.6 | 46% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 2.2 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.7 | 0.8 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41.7 | 2.1 | 41% |
| Mischief | 47.7 | 2.4 | 36% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.5 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61 | 3.1 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 48% |
| Drug violations | 26.3 | 1.3 | 87% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 1.8 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 21 | 1.1 | 25% |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Pohénégamook’s index dropped 19%
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 59.6 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 45.4 in 2025. 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 | Pohénégamook | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 59.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 56.4 | 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 Pohénégamook, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 270 violent incidents a year across the police area of 20,000 residents that includes Pohénégamook, 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 240 property crimes, plus 190 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 Pohénégamook
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pohénégamook | 2,488 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Rivière-Bleue (18 km) | 1,310 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (28 km) | 1,352 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup (34 km) | 1,471 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (35 km) | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska (38 km) | 2,509 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Pohénégamook. Closest is Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, 34 km away, at 48.3 to 53.8 here. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Pohénégamook with figures are 18–38 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Pohénégamook shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Pohénégamook
Is Pohénégamook safe?
Its police recorded 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Pohénégamook a Crime Severity Index of 53.8. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pohénégamook?
Most often it is assault: 6.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 4.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.8.
Is crime going up in Pohénégamook?
The reverse: 56.4 in 2023 came down to 45.4 by 2025, 19% lower.
How much of Pohénégamook’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 56% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 69% of violent and 47% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Pohénégamook 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).