Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Ragueneau sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Overall, it grades C+ for safety. In 2023 the index stood at 68.8; it rose to 72.6 in 2025. Violence and property crime split as 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 70 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Manicouagan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Ragueneau
Violence weighs more than the rest
Ragueneau scores 134 for violence and 45 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Ragueneau (61% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 70 in Ragueneau. 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 Ragueneau’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.
Crime in Ragueneau, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Ragueneau runs highest on assault (9.1 per 1,000 against 6.7).
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.
Ragueneau, 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 | Ragueneau | 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 Ragueneau, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Ragueneau is part of, 27,600 residents, recorded about 570 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.
Add about 350 property crimes and 340 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Ragueneau
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ragueneau | 1,287 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Chute-aux-Outardes | 1,406 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-aux-Outardes | 1,447 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-Lebel | 1,800 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
Same police, same number: 3 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Ragueneau among them.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Ragueneau
Is Ragueneau safe?
The short answer is an index of 70 for Ragueneau (2023–2025), built from 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Ragueneau?
Most often it is assault: 9.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 5.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.
Is crime going up in Ragueneau?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 5%, to 72.6 from 68.8.
How much of Ragueneau’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 54%: 61% for violent crime and 46% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Ragueneau 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).