Photo: Anne Dieu-Le-Veut · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Pointe-aux-Outardes is close to typical for Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 70 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. On top of that, its Crime Severity Index climbed from 68.8 in 2023 to 72.6 by 2025. Overall, Pointe-aux-Outardes grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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: one figure for all of the Manicouagan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Pointe-aux-Outardes
Heavier on violence
Pointe-aux-Outardes scores 134 for violence and 45 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Pointe-aux-Outardes (61% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Pointe-aux-Outardes’s index of 70 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.
What sits behind Pointe-aux-Outardes’s C+
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.
Crime in Pointe-aux-Outardes, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Pointe-aux-Outardes runs highest on assault (9.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud 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 | 27.3 | 1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 17 | 0.6 | 57% |
| Breaking and entering | 45.7 | 1.6 | 37% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.2 | 46% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 100 | 3.6 | 49% |
| Mischief | 61.3 | 2.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 16.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 110.7 | 4 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 1.9 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 55.3 | 2 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 66.3 | 2.4 | 10% |
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.
Pointe-aux-Outardes, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 72.6, and 2024 lowest at 68.5. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pointe-aux-Outardes | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 68.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.8 | 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 Pointe-aux-Outardes, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 570 violent incidents a year in the 27,600-resident police area around Pointe-aux-Outardes, 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 350 property crimes, plus 340 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 Pointe-aux-Outardes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-aux-Outardes | 1,447 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Chute-aux-Outardes | 1,406 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Ragueneau | 1,287 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-Lebel | 1,800 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Baie-Comeau | 20,660 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 4 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Pointe-aux-Outardes alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Pointe-aux-Outardes
Is Pointe-aux-Outardes safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 70 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Pointe-aux-Outardes stands, with 20.6 violent and 12.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Pointe-aux-Outardes?
The three biggest groups are assault at 9.1, other Criminal Code offences at 5.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Pointe-aux-Outardes?
Up 5%: 68.8 in 2023, 72.6 in 2025.
How much of Pointe-aux-Outardes’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 61% of violent crime and 46% of everything else, 54% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Pointe-aux-Outardes 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).