Photo: Marie-Hélène Lareault · Public domainWhapmagoostui records more crime per resident than 80% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 103.6, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. What’s more, its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Whapmagoostui reported over 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 34.8 violent incidents and 20.6 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Eeyou Eenou Cree Region service area).
What stands out about safety in Whapmagoostui
Assault: high for a town its size
Whapmagoostui 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
In 2023 the index in Whapmagoostui stood at 35, by 2025 at 145.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Whapmagoostui’s index of 103.6 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Whapmagoostui’s index splits into violent crime, 197.1 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 67.1 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.
The grade: C− for Whapmagoostui
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 Whapmagoostui: up 316%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 145.4, and 2023 lowest at 35. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Whapmagoostui | 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 Whapmagoostui, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Whapmagoostui, by type
Against the typical town its size, Whapmagoostui runs highest on assault (20.6 per 1,000 against 6.7) and mischief (11.7 per 1,000 against 4.2).
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.
19,400 residents, about 670 violent incidents a year: the police area Whapmagoostui belongs to, 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- 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. 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.
- Shared policing. Whapmagoostui is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
Questions about safety in Whapmagoostui
Is Whapmagoostui safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Whapmagoostui comes to 103.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 34.8 violent incidents and 20.6 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Whapmagoostui?
The three biggest groups are assault at 20.6, mischief at 11.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 10, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Whapmagoostui?
It went up 316% between 2023 and 2025, from 35 to 145.4.
How much of Whapmagoostui’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?
Those of the police serving Whapmagoostui 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).