Photo: Ymblanter · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Trois-Pistoles than in 66% of Canadian towns
Quebec’s towns sit around 56.1, midway up their range. Measured on crime the police covering Trois-Pistoles reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B+: #179 of 503 in Quebec. Year on year, 12.3 violent incidents and 11.7 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 52.3, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5.
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 Basques MRC.
What stands out about safety in Trois-Pistoles
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Trois-Pistoles is 16th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 44% of Trois-Pistoles’s crime, weighted by seriousness (56% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Trois-Pistoles’s two halves part ways: 97.2 for violence (typical 85.7) and 34.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 46.9 in 2023 to 54.9 in 2025: that is Trois-Pistoles’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
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 Trois-Pistoles
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: #179 of 503 in Quebec and #570 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Trois-Pistoles’s crime by kind
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 1 | 41% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.7 | 49% |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 1.7 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 22.7 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 24.7 | 2.7 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 20.7 | 2.3 | 76% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 5.7 | 0.6 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 21 | 2.3 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 13.7 | 1.5 | 5% |
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 to 10,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, Trois-Pistoles’s index climbed 17%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (55.3) and 2023 the trough (46.9). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Trois-Pistoles | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 55.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 46.9 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Trois-Pistoles, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 110 violent incidents a year across the police area of 9,050 residents that includes Trois-Pistoles, 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 74 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Trois-Pistoles comes 16th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Beaumont Quebec | 3,188 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 5 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Quebec | 3,173 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 6 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Quebec | 3,190 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 7 | Paspébiac Quebec | 3,132 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Saint-Liboire Quebec | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 14 | Saint-Dominique Quebec | 3,062 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Electoral Area D, Cariboo British Columbia | 3,057 | 51.7 | 55.1 | B+ |
| 16 | Trois-Pistoles Quebec | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| 17 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| 18 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 3,189 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| 19 | Ange-Gardien Quebec | 3,100 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | 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 Trois-Pistoles in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Trois-Pistoles
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trois-Pistoles | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | 1,146 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Saint-Jean-de-Dieu | 1,697 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| L'Isle-Verte | 1,427 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Trois-Pistoles among them.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Trois-Pistoles
Is Trois-Pistoles safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Trois-Pistoles’s Crime Severity Index stands at 52.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.3 violent incidents and 11.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Trois-Pistoles?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.4, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.3 and fraud at 3.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Trois-Pistoles?
Yes: the index rose 17%, from 46.9 in 2023 to 54.9 in 2025.
How much of Trois-Pistoles’s crime do police solve?
44%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 56% and non-violent crime at 31%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Trois-Pistoles 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).