Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0La Macaza has more crime per resident than 61% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 73.1 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, the index rose from 68.6 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025. Scored on crime the police covering La Macaza reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C+ for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 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. Measured across the Antoine-Labelle MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in La Macaza
Visitors count, residents divide
Seasonal homes make up about 49% of La Macaza’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; La Macaza’s police clear 62%, 82% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
La Macaza’s index splits into violent crime, 131 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 50.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 73.1 in La Macaza. 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.
La Macaza: C+ 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.
What police record in La Macaza, by type
Against the typical town its size, La Macaza runs highest on assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 35.3 | 0.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 2.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73 | 1.9 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 155 | 4.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 116.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 146.3 | 3.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 63.3 | 1.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 93.3 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 70 | 1.8 | 13% |
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.
La Macaza, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 78.4, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 68.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Macaza | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.6 | 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 Macaza, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 770 violent incidents a year across the police area of 38,200 residents that includes La Macaza, 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.
Add about 630 property crimes and 450 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around La Macaza
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Macaza | 1,138 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,882 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Labelle | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; La Macaza shares it with its neighbours.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. 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.
Questions about safety in La Macaza
Is La Macaza safe?
The short answer is an index of 73.1 for La Macaza (2023–2025), built from 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in La Macaza?
Assault is the most common, at 10 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (5.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (5).
Is crime going up in La Macaza?
It has: 68.6 in 2023 became 72.3 by 2025, a rise of 5%.
How much of La Macaza’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 62% of crime (82% of violent crime, 41% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers La Macaza 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).