Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Senneterre than in 79% of Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 102 to 104.9. Year on year, 29.2 violent incidents and 25.2 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Senneterre reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 183.5 for violence and 72.5 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Vallée-de-l'Or MRC.
What stands out about safety in Senneterre
Assault: high for a town its size
Senneterre records 15.8 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 ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Senneterre’s police clear 58%, 72% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Senneterre’s index of 103.6 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Senneterre’s index splits into violent crime, 183.5 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 72.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Senneterre’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 Senneterre, by type
Against the typical town its size, Senneterre runs highest on assault (15.8 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 52.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 48 | 1.1 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6.3 | 0.1 | 52% |
| Robbery | 17.7 | 0.4 | 60% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Other violent violations | 21.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 163 | 3.8 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.4 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 64 | 1.5 | 38% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.3 | 0.6 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 389.3 | 9.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 200.7 | 4.7 | 32% |
| Weapons violations | 23.3 | 0.5 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 235.3 | 5.5 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 40.7 | 1 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 109 | 2.5 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 171.7 | 4 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 116 | 2.7 | 15% |
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.
Around 1,250 violent incidents a year in the 43,000-resident police area around Senneterre, 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 1,080 property crimes, plus 760 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Senneterre, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 104.9, and 2023 lowest at 102. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Senneterre | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 103.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 102 | 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 Senneterre, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Senneterre
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senneterre | 1,189 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Senneterre (15 km) | 2,832 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| Lac Simon (23 km) | 1,403 | 794.3 | 1,940.4 | D− |
| Barraute (29 km) | 1,939 | 78.7 | 145.2 | C |
Of 2 places nearby with their own figures, 1 come in under Senneterre. The nearest of them, Barraute (29.4 km away), scores 78.7 against 103.6. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 15–29 km from Senneterre.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Senneterre among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Senneterre
Is Senneterre safe?
With 29.2 violent incidents and 25.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Senneterre comes to 103.6 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Senneterre?
Assault is the most common, at 15.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (9.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (7.6).
Is crime going up in Senneterre?
Not much: the index went from 102 in 2023 to 104.9 in 2025.
How much of Senneterre’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 58% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 72% of violent crime and 44% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Senneterre 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).