Photo: Iramuse · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Entrelacs records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 53.7, down from 61.4 in 2023. Annual rates stand at 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighing it all, Entrelacs earns B for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 87.6 and other offences for 46, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Matawinie MRC.
What stands out about safety in Entrelacs
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 48% of Entrelacs’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 43% for Entrelacs (59% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Entrelacs scores 87.6 for violence and 46 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Entrelacs, 57.5. 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.
Entrelacs: B 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.
Entrelacs, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (61.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 53.7. 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 | Entrelacs | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 57.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.4 | 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 Entrelacs, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Entrelacs, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 44.3 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15.3 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.09 | 75% |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 16 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 131.3 | 2.3 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 46 | 0.8 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 174 | 3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 41.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 144.7 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 48 | 0.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 123 | 2.1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 75 | 1.3 | 16% |
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.
58,800 residents, about 620 violent incidents a year: the police area Entrelacs 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 840 property crimes, plus 420 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 Entrelacs
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrelacs | 1,124 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Chertsey | 5,678 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson | 3,842 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides | 1,651 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Val-David | 5,920 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
Entrelacs has the highest index of the places around it. Just 10.1 km away, Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson comes to 53.5, against 57.5. Same police, same number: one neighbour drops out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Entrelacs among them.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Entrelacs
Is Entrelacs safe?
Its police recorded 10.8 violent incidents and 14.7 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Entrelacs a Crime Severity Index of 57.5. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Entrelacs?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.4, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and motor vehicle theft at 3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Entrelacs?
Down 13%: 61.4 in 2023, 53.7 in 2025.
How much of Entrelacs’s crime do police solve?
About 43% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 59% of violent and 32% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Entrelacs and everywhere else it polices.
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).