Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Labelle records less crime per resident than 70% of Canadian towns
Within Quebec, half the towns score under 56.1. What’s more, on the record of crime the police covering Labelle reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety: #154 of 503 in Quebec. Typical years here bring 11.9 violent incidents plus 11.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.9 plus 31.2 in the typical town its size. A Crime Severity Index of 48.8, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian 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. Shared with the rest of the Laurentides MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Labelle
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 33% of Labelle’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 ↓
Easing since 2023
From 67.1 in 2023 to 34.2 in 2025: that is Labelle’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 61% of Labelle’s crime, weighted by seriousness (80% of violent crime, 46% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Labelle is 12th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Labelle: 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.
Its place: #154 of 503 in Quebec and #502 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.
Year by year in Labelle: down 49%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 67.1; the lightest was 2025, at 34.2. 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 | Labelle | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 45 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 67.1 | 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 Labelle, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Labelle’s crime by kind
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 | 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 to 10,000 people.
Labelle is 12th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 4 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 5 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Basile Quebec | 2,918 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 11 | Algonquin Highlands Ontario | 2,915 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| 12 | Labelle Quebec | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Bruno Quebec | 2,935 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 14 | Springdale Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,893 | 49.9 | 56.6 | B+ |
| 15 | Weedon Quebec | 2,845 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Athabasca Alberta | 2,887 | 165 | 138.6 | 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 Labelle in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 630 violent incidents a year across the police area of 54,200 residents that includes Labelle, 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 Labelle
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labelle | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| La Conception | 1,685 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| La Minerve | 1,492 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| La Macaza | 1,138 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Mont-Tremblant | 11,879 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Labelle alone.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. 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 Labelle
Is Labelle safe?
Labelle’s Crime Severity Index is 48.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 11.9 violent incidents and 11.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Labelle?
Most often it is assault: 5.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.3.
Is crime going up in Labelle?
The reverse: 67.1 in 2023 came down to 34.2 by 2025, 49% lower.
How much of Labelle’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 61% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 80% of violent and 46% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Labelle 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).