Photo: Nicolas Gagnon · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Rivière-Bleue than in 63% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Rivière-Bleue reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on 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. Even so, a Crime Severity Index of 53.8, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 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 Témiscouata MRC.
What stands out about safety in Rivière-Bleue
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 56% of Rivière-Bleue’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
In 2023 the index in Rivière-Bleue stood at 56.4, by 2025 at 45.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Rivière-Bleue’s two halves part ways: 81.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 43.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Rivière-Bleue, 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.
The grade: B for Rivière-Bleue
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.
Rivière-Bleue’s index fell 19% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (59.6) and 2025 the trough (45.4). 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 | Rivière-Bleue | 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 Rivière-Bleue, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
20,000 residents, about 270 violent incidents a year: the police area Rivière-Bleue belongs to, 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 240 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Rivière-Bleue’s crime by kind
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.
Crime in the places around Rivière-Bleue
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivière-Bleue | 1,310 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Pohénégamook (18 km) | 2,488 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! (25 km) | 1,352 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac (28 km) | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| Dégelis (29 km) | 2,943 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
The comparison skips 4 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Rivière-Bleue has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 18–29 km out.
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 Rivière-Bleue alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Rivière-Bleue
Is Rivière-Bleue safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Rivière-Bleue’s Crime Severity Index stands at 53.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 13.5 violent incidents and 12.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Rivière-Bleue?
Top of the list is assault (6.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 3.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Rivière-Bleue?
The reverse: 56.4 in 2023 came down to 45.4 by 2025, 19% lower.
How much of Rivière-Bleue’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 56%: 69% for violent crime and 47% 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 Rivière-Bleue 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).