Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domainRouyn-Noranda sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its Safety Grade, B− (#325 of 503 in Quebec), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. On top of that, in 2023 the index stood at 64.6; it rose to 72 in 2025. Annual rates stand at 17.2 violent incidents and 16.0 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. A Crime Severity Index of 66.7, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 66 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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.
What stands out about safety in Rouyn-Noranda
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Rouyn-Noranda records 1.9 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 51% of Rouyn-Noranda’s crime, weighted by seriousness (63% of violent crime, 40% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Rouyn-Noranda is 20th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Rouyn-Noranda scores 66.7. 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.
Rouyn-Noranda: 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.
Its place: #325 of 503 in Quebec and #1,018 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Rouyn-Noranda’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Rouyn-Noranda runs highest on drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.8) and sexual assault (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.8). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 42 | 1 | 45% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 7.7 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Other violent violations | 20.3 | 0.5 | 64% |
| Breaking and entering | 99.7 | 2.3 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8.7 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 203.3 | 4.7 | 32% |
| Mischief | 144 | 3.3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 15 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 130.7 | 3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 25.7 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 83 | 1.9 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 108 | 2.5 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 61 | 1.4 | 22% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Rouyn-Noranda, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 72, and 2024 lowest at 63.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Rouyn-Noranda | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | 60 |
| 2024 | 63.5 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 64.6 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Rouyn-Noranda, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 740 violent incidents a year on Rouyn-Noranda’s police records (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.
And about 690 property crimes, plus 460 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
By its index, Rouyn-Noranda stands 20th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Boucherville Quebec | 41,910 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 13 | Victoriaville Quebec | 49,863 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 14 | Saint-Eustache Quebec | 47,562 | 55.4 | 78.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Sorel-Tracy Quebec | 36,537 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| 18 | Stratford Ontario | 36,097 | 62.2 | 65.5 | B− |
| 19 | St. Thomas Ontario | 49,388 | 65.2 | 72.6 | B− |
| 20 | Rouyn-Noranda Quebec | 43,270 | 66.7 | 112.8 | B− |
| 21 | Salaberry-de-Valleyfield Quebec | 47,002 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| 22 | Shawinigan Quebec | 51,739 | 76 | 113.4 | C+ |
| 23 | West Kelowna British Columbia | 40,274 | 78.4 | 79.1 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Rouyn-Noranda in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Rouyn-Noranda
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rouyn-Noranda | 43,270 | 66.7 | 112.8 | B− |
| Palmarolle (49 km) | 1,425 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| Macamic (58 km) | 2,698 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| Rivière-Héva (62 km) | 1,567 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| La Sarre (65 km) | 7,199 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| Malartic (67 km) | 3,506 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
The places around Rouyn-Noranda all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 49–67 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Rouyn-Noranda.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Rouyn-Noranda
Is Rouyn-Noranda safe?
Rouyn-Noranda measures 66.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 17.2 violent incidents and 16 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Rouyn-Noranda?
Police record assault most, 7.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (4.7) and other Criminal Code offences (4.5).
Is crime going up in Rouyn-Noranda?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 11%, to 72 from 64.6.
How much of Rouyn-Noranda’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 51%: 63% for violent crime and 40% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Rouyn-Noranda and nowhere else.
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).