Photo: Photographe inconnu - Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Rimouski · Public domainRecorded crime in Price is close to typical for Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 65 to 60.2. Violence and property crime split as 19.8 violent incidents and 13.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, the overall Safety Grade is B−, which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 67.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Mitis MRC.
What stands out about safety in Price
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 60% for Price (73% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Price scores 133.2 for violence and 42.2 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Price, 67.8. 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.
Price: B− 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Price, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Price runs highest on assault (9.2 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 | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.3 | 0.8 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 1 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.3 | 1.9 | 49% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62 | 3.3 | 53% |
| Mischief | 69.7 | 3.8 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 109.3 | 5.9 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.7 | 0.7 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 24.7 | 1.3 | 58% |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 33.7 | 1.8 | 28% |
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.
Price, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (78.1) and 2025 the trough (60.2). 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 | Price | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65 | 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 Price, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Price is part of, 18,500 residents, recorded about 370 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.
Property crime adds about 250 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 Price
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 1,701 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Mont-Joli | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici | 1,005 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| Sainte-Luce | 2,808 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Price shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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.
Questions about safety in Price
Is Price safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Price’s Crime Severity Index stands at 67.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 19.8 violent incidents and 13.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Price?
Assault is the most common, at 9.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.4) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4).
Is crime going up in Price?
It went down 7% between 2023 and 2025, from 65 to 60.2.
How much of Price’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 60% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 73% of violent and 46% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Price 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).