Photo: Bouchecl · CC BY-SA 3.0More crimes per resident are recorded in La Tuque than in 80% of Canadian towns
The Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crime the police covering La Tuque reported through 2023 to 2025: #487 of 503 in Quebec. Violence accounts for an index of 199 and other offences for 69.9, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Its police logs show 32.4 violent incidents and 21.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.0 and 30.5.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the area the Sûreté du Québec’s La Tuque unit covers).
What stands out about safety in La Tuque
Assault: high for a town its size
La Tuque records 16.7 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.6 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
La Tuque’s index of 106.1 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; La Tuque’s police clear 61%, 74% of violent crime and 47% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in La Tuque stood at 87.7, by 2025 at 108.5. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside La Tuque’s C− for safety
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: #487 of 503 in Quebec and #1,949 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.
La Tuque’s index rose 24% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (122.1) and 2023 the trough (87.7). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Tuque | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 122.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 87.7 | 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 Tuque, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in La Tuque, by type
Against the typical town its size, La Tuque runs highest on assault (16.7 per 1,000 against 6.6), drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.8) and sexual assault (1.7 per 1,000 against 0.8). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 23.3 | 1.9 | 64% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.7 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10 | 0.8 | 70% |
| Breaking and entering | 41.7 | 3.4 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 28.7 | 2.4 | 25% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.8 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 59.7 | 4.9 | 42% |
| Mischief | 45.7 | 3.8 | 43% |
| Weapons violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 82% |
| Administration of justice violations | 127.3 | 10.5 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.8 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 23.3 | 1.9 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 35 | 2.9 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 2 | 17% |
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.
La Tuque is 35th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamilton Ontario | 11,810 | 25.7 | 30.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Contrecoeur Quebec | 10,708 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot Quebec | 11,716 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Pont-Rouge Quebec | 11,339 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Montmagny Quebec | 11,326 | 48.4 | 77.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Lethbridge County Alberta | 10,988 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| 33 | Estevan Saskatchewan | 11,391 | 103.1 | 136.2 | C− |
| 34 | Smiths Falls Ontario | 11,093 | 105.1 | 147.6 | C− |
| 35 | La Tuque Quebec | 11,309 | 106.1 | 199 | C− |
| 36 | Yellowhead County Alberta | 10,966 | 120 | 99.2 | D |
| 37 | Sechelt British Columbia | 11,558 | 141.3 | 114.9 | D |
| 38 | Selkirk Manitoba | 11,570 | 158 | 197.4 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Williams Lake British Columbia | 11,462 | 248.9 | 248.6 | 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 Tuque in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 390 violent incidents a year across the police area of 12,100 residents that includes La Tuque, 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 260 a year and other violations 240 (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 Tuque
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Tuque | 11,309 | 106.1 | 199 | C− |
| Lac-aux-Sables (68 km) | 1,463 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Sainte-Thècle (72 km) | 2,422 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Tite (80 km) | 3,759 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
The places around La Tuque all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Lac-aux-Sables (68.3 km away), scores 56.3 against 106.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 68–80 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from La Tuque.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, La Tuque among them.
Questions about safety in La Tuque
Is La Tuque safe?
The short answer is an index of 106.1 for La Tuque (2023–2025), built from 32.4 violent incidents and 21.3 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the typical index is 66.
What is the most common crime in La Tuque?
Most often it is assault: 16.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 12.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.4.
Is crime going up in La Tuque?
It went up 24% between 2023 and 2025, from 87.7 to 108.5.
How much of La Tuque’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 61% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 74% of violent and 47% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for La Tuque 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).