Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0La Salle is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 67 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Add to that, the yearly rates were 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put La Salle at B− (#28 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns. One of the 6 towns next door with figures records less 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. Shared with the rest of the Headingley detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in La Salle
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in La Salle stood at 81.4, by 2025 at 43.9. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, La Salle scores 67. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
La Salle records 5.6 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, La Salle is 22nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
The grade: B− for La Salle
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 18 km off, which covers its own area rather than La Salle.
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: #28 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,144 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.
La Salle’s index fell 46% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 81.4, and 2025 the lightest at 43.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | La Salle | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 75.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 La Salle, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up La Salle’s figures
Against the typical town its size, La Salle runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 2.6). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 20 | 1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 5.6 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 78 | 3.9 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.7 | 1.2 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 98.7 | 5 | 9% |
| Mischief | 101 | 5 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 2.8 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Impaired driving | 53.7 | 2.7 | 67% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, La Salle places 22nd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tavistock Ontario | 8,710 | 23.1 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | St. Adolphe Manitoba | 8,770 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Coaldale Alberta | 9,644 | 57.1 | 45.1 | B |
| 20 | Three Rivers Prince Edward Island | 9,322 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 9,682 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | La Salle Manitoba | 9,215 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| 23 | Notre-Dame-des-Prairies Quebec | 9,622 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 24 | Camrose County Alberta | 8,951 | 70.5 | 76.9 | C+ |
| 25 | Kings County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 8,994 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 33 | Stony Mountain Manitoba | 9,180 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | 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 La Salle in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 160 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest La Salle (20,500 residents), 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 490 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around La Salle
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Salle | 9,215 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| South Pointe | 8,168 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Bridgwater Trails | 11,365 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| St. Norbert | 8,251 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Richmond West | 6,114 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| St. Adolphe | 8,770 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| Bridgwater Forest | 5,076 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
La Salle sits above 1 of the 6 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, St. Adolphe (14.5 km away), scores 47.5 against 67.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 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 La Salle
Is La Salle safe?
La Salle’s Crime Severity Index is 67 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in La Salle?
Break and enter is the most common, at 5.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (5.3) and mischief (5).
Is crime going up in La Salle?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 46%, to 43.9 from 81.4.
How much of La Salle’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 37%: 68% for violent crime and 22% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers La Salle 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).