Photo: Municipalitelapeche · CC BY-SA 4.0La Pêche has less crime per resident than 95% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 31.3 to 26.5. What’s more, on crime the police covering La Pêche reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #10 of 503 in Quebec. Of the two halves, violence comes to 51.6 and other offences to 20.8, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. Violence and property crime split as 8.4 violent incidents and 7.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Collines-de-l'Outaouais Region service area.
What stands out about safety in La Pêche
Below Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; La Pêche, 29.4. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, La Pêche comes 4th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
La Pêche scores 51.6 for violence and 20.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for La Pêche (67% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Pêche’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.
Its place: #10 of 503 in Quebec and #110 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in La Pêche, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 8 | 0.1 | 46% |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 1.1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6 | 0.1 | 72% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.7 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14 | 0.2 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 83.3 | 1.4 | 28% |
| Mischief | 74 | 1.3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.1 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.7 | 1.2 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Drug violations | 30 | 0.5 | 59% |
| Impaired driving | 96.3 | 1.7 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 21.7 | 0.4 | 35% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, La Pêche places 4th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanley Manitoba | 9,929 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| 2 | Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Quebec | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 3 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Quebec | 9,084 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | La Pêche Quebec | 9,379 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Chelsea Quebec | 8,998 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 6 | Thamesford Ontario | 9,755 | 30.7 | 22.5 | A+ |
| 7 | Laurentian Valley Ontario | 9,714 | 36.3 | 44.5 | A |
| 8 | Otterburn Park Quebec | 9,460 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 9 | Saint-Apollinaire Quebec | 9,218 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 10 | Boischatel Quebec | 9,250 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 11 | Coaticook Quebec | 9,027 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to La Pêche in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
La Pêche, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 31.3 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 26.5 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Pêche | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 30.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 31.3 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering La Pêche, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 490 violent incidents a year across the police area of 58,700 residents that includes La Pêche, 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 410 property crimes, plus 260 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 La Pêche
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
- 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.”
- Shared policing. La Pêche is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in La Pêche
Is La Pêche safe?
The short answer is an index of 29.4 for La Pêche (2023–2025), built from 8.4 violent incidents and 7.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in La Pêche?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.1, Criminal Code traffic offences at 2.3 and fraud at 2.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in La Pêche?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 15%, to 26.5 from 31.3.
How much of La Pêche’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 49% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 67% of violent crime and 32% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for La Pêche 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).