Photo: NickCibroit · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in La Prairie than in 83% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 59.8 and its non-violent half to 34.6, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Typical years here bring 9.7 violent incidents plus 13.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 30.5 in the typical town its size. What’s more, it grades A− for safety on crime the police covering La Prairie reported from 2023 to 2025: #78 of 503 in Quebec. Both towns on its borders with figures record more 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. Measured across the Roussillon Region service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in La Prairie
Under the Quebec norm
La Prairie’s index of 41.6 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, La Prairie places 14th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 45% of crime in La Prairie ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 66% of violent crime and 31% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. 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 Prairie’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: #78 of 503 in Quebec and #319 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up La Prairie’s figures
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 25.7 | 0.2 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 18 | 0.1 | 67% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 18 | 0.1 | 93% |
| Other violent violations | 59.7 | 0.5 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 141 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 178 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 33.7 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 466 | 3.9 | 32% |
| Mischief | 177 | 1.5 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 12.3 | 0.1 | 81% |
| Administration of justice violations | 255.7 | 2.1 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 52.3 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 86 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 159 | 1.3 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 198.7 | 1.6 | 27% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The police area La Prairie is part of, 122,100 residents, recorded about 1,170 violent incidents a year (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 1,630 property crimes, plus 840 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
La Prairie is 14th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| 12 | Foothills County Alberta | 25,789 | 39.1 | 30.5 | A |
| 13 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 14 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 15 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 16 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 17 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Quebec | 26,786 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 22 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides Quebec | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Thetford Mines Quebec | 27,155 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 200.6 | 214.9 | 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 Prairie in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
From 2023 to 2025, La Prairie’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 44.1; 2025 was lightest, at 39.8. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Prairie | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 40.8 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering La Prairie, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around La Prairie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Prairie | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Candiac | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Brossard | 97,597 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| Saint-Philippe | 8,674 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Delson | 8,802 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Catherine | 17,782 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| Ile-des-Soeurs | 21,568 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
La Prairie has the lowest index of the places around it. Sharing its police with 4 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- A regional police service. The service that polices La Prairie reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
Questions about safety in La Prairie
Is La Prairie safe?
La Prairie’s Crime Severity Index is 41.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 13.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in La Prairie?
Top of the list is fraud (4.9 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 4.4, and theft under $5,000, at 3.9, follow.
Is crime going up in La Prairie?
The index stayed close to where it was, 40.8 in 2023 and 39.8 in 2025.
How much of La Prairie’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 45% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 66% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving La Prairie 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).