Photo: Stéphane Duquesne · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in La Conception than in 70% of Canadian towns
For every 1,000 residents, 11.9 violent incidents and 11.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. A Crime Severity Index of 48.8, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering La Conception reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Laurentides MRC.
What stands out about safety in La Conception
More people here than live here
With 40% of its homes not lived in all year, La Conception counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in La Conception stood at 67.1, by 2025 at 34.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; La Conception’s police clear 61%, 80% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 48.8 in La Conception. 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.
What’s behind La Conception’s grade
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 La Conception: down 49%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 67.1, and 2025 the lightest at 34.2. 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 | La Conception | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 67.1 | 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 La Conception, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in La Conception, by type
Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20 | 0.4 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21 | 0.4 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 99 | 1.9 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.2 | 71% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 16 | 0.3 | 29% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 139 | 2.6 | 38% |
| Mischief | 97.7 | 1.8 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 16 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 3.4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 82% |
| Drug violations | 91.3 | 1.7 | 84% |
| Impaired driving | 127.7 | 2.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 92.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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.
54,200 residents, about 630 violent incidents a year: the police area La Conception 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.
Property crime adds about 640 a year and other violations 570 (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 Conception
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Conception | 1,685 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Brébeuf | 1,012 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Mont-Tremblant | 11,879 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Amherst | 1,703 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Labelle | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
Same police, same number: 4 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for La Conception alone.
- 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in La Conception
Is La Conception safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, La Conception’s Crime Severity Index stands at 48.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 11.9 violent incidents and 11.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in La Conception?
Police record assault most, 5.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (4.7) and other Criminal Code offences (4.3).
Is crime going up in La Conception?
Down 49%: 67.1 in 2023, 34.2 in 2025.
How much of La Conception’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 80% of violent crime and 46% of everything else, 61% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers La Conception 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).