Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Sept-Îles than in 80% of Canadian towns
The yearly rates were 28.8 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Measured on crime the police covering Sept-Îles reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C−: #487 of 503 in Quebec. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 103.9, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 66. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident.
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 published for the Sept-Rivières MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Sept-Îles
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Sept-Îles records 2.8 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 ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Sept-Îles’s index went from 71.6 in 2023 to 110.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; Sept-Îles’s police clear 59%, 70% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Sept-Îles, 103.9. 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 Sept-Îles’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.
Its place: #487 of 503 in Quebec and #1,949 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.
Year by year in Sept-Îles: up 54%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 129.8 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 71.6 in 2023. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Sept-Îles | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 129.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 71.6 | 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 Sept-Îles, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Sept-Îles, by type
Against the typical town its size, Sept-Îles runs highest on drug offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.8), assault (15.4 per 1,000 against 6.6) and sexual assault (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 30.3 | 1 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 29.7 | 1 | 77% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 13.3 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.2 | 52% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Other violent violations | 19.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 82.3 | 2.6 | 36% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35.3 | 1.1 | 37% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 0.4 | 35% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 153.3 | 4.9 | 44% |
| Mischief | 111.3 | 3.6 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 29.3 | 0.9 | 65% |
| Administration of justice violations | 185.3 | 6 | 83% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.3 | 0.5 | 63% |
| Drug violations | 87 | 2.8 | 62% |
| Impaired driving | 105.7 | 3.4 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 82 | 2.6 | 11% |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Sept-Îles places 35th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 14 | Saint-Lazare Quebec | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 15 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 32 | White Rock British Columbia | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| 33 | Grande Prairie County No. 1 Alberta | 25,883 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| 34 | Brockville Ontario | 23,720 | 100.1 | 126.6 | C− |
| 35 | Sept-Îles Quebec | 24,483 | 103.9 | 209.6 | C− |
| 36 | Owen Sound Ontario | 24,075 | 110 | 154.9 | C− |
| 37 | Riverview New Brunswick | 22,614 | 113.1 | 113.3 | C− |
| 38 | Cranbrook British Columbia | 22,703 | 149.5 | 147.3 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Sept-Îles in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 890 violent incidents a year in the 31,100-resident police area around Sept-Îles, 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 520 property crimes, plus 540 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Sept-Îles
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept-Îles | 24,483 | 103.9 | 209.6 | C− |
| Uashat 27 | 1,694 | 354.4 | 870.6 | D− |
| Maliotenam | 1,683 | 354.4 | 870.6 | D− |
The places around Sept-Îles all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Sept-Îles among them.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. 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.
Questions about safety in Sept-Îles
Is Sept-Îles safe?
Police-reported crime in Sept-Îles scores 103.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 28.8 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in Sept-Îles?
Police record assault most, 15.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7.9) and Criminal Code traffic offences (6.7).
Is crime going up in Sept-Îles?
It has: 71.6 in 2023 became 110.5 by 2025, a rise of 54%.
How much of Sept-Îles’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 70% of violent crime and 46% of everything else, 59% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sept-Îles together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).