Photo: Ptaff · CC0Wemindji has more crime per resident than 80% of Canadian towns
Its police logs show 34.8 violent incidents and 20.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 103.6 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on the record of crime the police covering Wemindji reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Eeyou Eenou Cree Region service area.
What stands out about safety in Wemindji
Assault: high for a town its size
Wemindji records 20.6 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 ↓
Rising since 2023
From 35 in 2023 to 145.4 in 2025: that is Wemindji’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Wemindji scores 103.6. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Wemindji’s two halves part ways: 197.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 67.1 for the rest (typical 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.
Wemindji: C− 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Wemindji: up 316%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 145.4, and 2023 lowest at 35. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Wemindji | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 130.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 35 | 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 Wemindji, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Wemindji’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Wemindji runs highest on assault (20.6 per 1,000 against 6.7), mischief (11.7 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (4.5 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8 | 0.4 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 37 | 1.9 | 43% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 4.5 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 31.7 | 1.6 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 0.5 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 20 | 1 | 7% |
| Mischief | 224.7 | 11.7 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.5 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 114 | 5.9 | 34% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 44.3 | 2.3 | 35% |
| Drug violations | 27.3 | 1.4 | 40% |
| Impaired driving | 80 | 4.2 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 12 | 0.6 | 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 2,500 people or more.
The police area Wemindji is part of, 19,400 residents, recorded about 670 violent incidents a year (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 400 property crimes, plus 320 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 Wemindji
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wemindji | 1,609 | 103.6 | 197.1 | C− |
| Chisasibi (84 km) | 5,382 | 103.6 | 197.1 | C− |
One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer place has figures: this one lies 84 km from Wemindji.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A regional police service. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Wemindji included.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.
Questions about safety in Wemindji
Is Wemindji safe?
With 34.8 violent incidents and 20.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Wemindji 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 Wemindji?
Top of the list is assault (20.6 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 11.7, and other Criminal Code offences, at 10, follow.
Is crime going up in Wemindji?
It went up 316% between 2023 and 2025, from 35 to 145.4.
How much of Wemindji’s crime do police solve?
About 36% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 41% of violent and 26% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Wemindji 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).