Crime in Les Rapides sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Year on year, 14.9 violent incidents and 20.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Taking everything together, Les Rapides scores B− (#326 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 100.1 and other offences to 55, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. About 45% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 and crime rate figures: the Gatineau service area.
What’s behind Les Rapides’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Les Rapides on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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: #326 of 503 in Quebec and #1,304 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Gatineau’s figures
These are Gatineau’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Gatineau runs highest on drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (7.4 per 1,000 against 4.9) and sexual assault (1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 159 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 139 | 0.5 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 42.7 | 0.1 | 63% |
| Robbery | 112.7 | 0.4 | 62% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 62.7 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Other violent violations | 127.3 | 0.4 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 692 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 62.3 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 368.3 | 1.2 | 22% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 134.3 | 0.4 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 2,314 | 7.7 | 29% |
| Mischief | 940 | 3.1 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 46 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,147.3 | 3.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 229.3 | 0.8 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 439.3 | 1.5 | 87% |
| Impaired driving | 329 | 1.1 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1,110.7 | 3.7 | 15% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Les Rapides’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 67.8; the lightest was 2025, at 67.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Les Rapides | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.1 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 67.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 67.8 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Les Rapides, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Les Rapides
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Rapides | 15,090 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| La Cité | 30,930 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Hautes-Plaines | 6,353 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Rivière-Gatineau | 14,875 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Mont-Bleu | 21,636 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Lac-des-Fées | 10,075 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
| Du Moulin | 30,364 | 67.5 | 100.1 | B− |
The table leaves out 6 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
- City-wide figures. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Les Rapides is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Les Rapides
Is Les Rapides safe?
Statistics Canada puts Les Rapides at 67.5 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 14.9 and property crimes at 20.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Les Rapides?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 7.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (7.4) and fraud (5.7).
Is crime going up in Les Rapides?
Hardly at all, from 67.8 in 2023 to 67.1 in 2025.
How much of Les Rapides’s crime do police solve?
45%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 61% and non-violent crime at 33%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
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).