Photo: Pierre-Olivier Combelles · CC BY-SA 3.0Romaine 2 records more crime per resident than 82% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 223.3 and other offences for 66.4, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Measured on crime the police covering Romaine 2 reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C−. Per 1,000 residents a year, 45.4 violent incidents and 16.6 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Minganie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Romaine 2
Assault: high for a town its size
Romaine 2 records 27.4 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
The violent half stands out
Romaine 2’s index splits into violent crime, 223.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 66.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Over the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Romaine 2 scores 110.6. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Romaine 2’s police clear 67%, 78% of violent crime and 53% of the rest. Questions ↓
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 Romaine 2’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.
What police record in Romaine 2, by type
Against the typical town its size, Romaine 2 runs highest on assault (27.4 per 1,000 against 6.7) and mischief (5.4 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.9 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.8 | 66% |
| Other violent violations | 14.3 | 2.2 | 82% |
| Breaking and entering | 26.7 | 4.1 | 41% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7 | 1.1 | 57% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 20 | 3 | 40% |
| Mischief | 35.3 | 5.4 | 50% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 1.3 | 96% |
| Administration of justice violations | 49.3 | 7.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 2.7 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 15 | 2.3 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 11.3 | 1.7 | 29% |
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.
6,590 residents, about 300 violent incidents a year: the police area Romaine 2 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 110 a year and other violations 110 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
In Romaine 2, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (115.6) and 2025 the trough (107.3). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Romaine 2 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 115.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 108.7 | 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 Romaine 2, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Romaine 2 shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Romaine 2
Is Romaine 2 safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Romaine 2’s Crime Severity Index stands at 110.6 for 2023–2025. Its police record 45.4 violent incidents and 16.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Romaine 2?
Top of the list is assault (27.4 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10, and mischief, at 5.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Romaine 2?
The index stayed close to where it was, 108.7 in 2023 and 107.3 in 2025.
How much of Romaine 2’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 78% of violent crime and 53% of everything else, 67% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Romaine 2 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).