Photo: Franky-Doo-Dy · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in La Minerve runs lower than in 70% of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 48.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Counting crime the police covering La Minerve reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety. What’s more, typical years here bring 11.9 violent incidents plus 11.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Neither of the two 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Laurentides MRC.
What stands out about safety in La Minerve
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 53% of La Minerve’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 ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, La Minerve moved from 67.1 to 34.2, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 61% for La Minerve (80% violent, 46% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
La Minerve’s index of 48.8 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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 Minerve: 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.
Year by year in La Minerve: down 49%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 67.1, against a low of 34.2 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Minerve | 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 Minerve, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in La Minerve, type 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.
Around 630 violent incidents a year in the 54,200-resident police area around La Minerve, 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 Minerve
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Minerve | 1,492 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Labelle | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Nominingue | 2,290 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,882 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over La Minerve. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; La Minerve shares it with its neighbours.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in La Minerve
Is La Minerve safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, La Minerve’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 Minerve?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.8, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in La Minerve?
The reverse: 67.1 in 2023 came down to 34.2 by 2025, 49% lower.
How much of La Minerve’s crime do police solve?
About 61% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 80% of violent and 46% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving La Minerve together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).