Photo: David Asch · Public domainPort-Daniel--Gascons sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 69.4, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Out of every 1,000 residents, 23.9 violent incidents and 10.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Port-Daniel--Gascons grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Rocher-Percé MRC.
What stands out about safety in Port-Daniel--Gascons
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 69% of crime in Port-Daniel--Gascons ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 80% of violent crime and 54% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 134.9 on Port-Daniel--Gascons’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 43.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Port-Daniel--Gascons stood at 60.8, by 2025 at 70.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Port-Daniel--Gascons’s index of 69.4 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 Port-Daniel--Gascons’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.
Port-Daniel--Gascons’s index rose 16% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 77.3, with 2023 the lightest at 60.8. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Port-Daniel--Gascons | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 77.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.8 | 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 Port-Daniel--Gascons, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Port-Daniel--Gascons’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Port-Daniel--Gascons runs highest on 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 people or more.
Around 410 violent incidents a year in the 17,100-resident police area around Port-Daniel--Gascons, 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 Port-Daniel--Gascons
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port-Daniel--Gascons | 2,263 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Chandler (21 km) | 7,323 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| Paspébiac (30 km) | 3,132 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Grande-Rivière (37 km) | 3,318 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| New Carlisle (37 km) | 1,331 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| Bonaventure (44 km) | 2,719 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
The places around Port-Daniel--Gascons all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Paspébiac (30.3 km away), scores 47.7 against 69.4. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Port-Daniel--Gascons with figures are 21–44 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Port-Daniel--Gascons among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Port-Daniel--Gascons
Is Port-Daniel--Gascons safe?
Port-Daniel--Gascons scores 69.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 23.9 violent incidents and 10 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Port-Daniel--Gascons?
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 Port-Daniel--Gascons?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 16%, to 70.2 from 60.8.
How much of Port-Daniel--Gascons’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 69%: 80% for violent crime and 54% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Port-Daniel--Gascons 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).