Photo: Interaction Qui Ltée · Public domainCrime per resident in Labrecque runs lower than in 69% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 81.8 and other offences to 37.1, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Labrecque reported put it at B+ for safety. The local count comes to 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Lac-Saint-Jean-Est MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Labrecque
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 59% of Labrecque’s crime, weighted by seriousness (73% of violent crime, 46% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Labrecque’s two halves part ways: 81.8 for violence (typical 86.4) and 37.1 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Labrecque moved from 51.8 to 43.2, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Labrecque, 49.6. 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.
What’s behind Labrecque’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Labrecque’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 53.7, with 2025 the lightest at 43.2. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Labrecque | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.8 | 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 Labrecque, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 650 violent incidents a year in the 53,800-resident police area around Labrecque, 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 620 a year and other violations 430 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Labrecque’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 42.7 | 0.8 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 15 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 7.3 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 9.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Breaking and entering | 109.3 | 2 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 60.7 | 1.1 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.7 | 0.3 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 170.7 | 3.2 | 34% |
| Mischief | 92 | 1.7 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 10.3 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 135.7 | 2.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 85% |
| Drug violations | 72.3 | 1.3 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 94 | 1.8 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 64.7 | 1.2 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Crime in the places around Labrecque
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labrecque | 1,375 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Nazaire | 2,167 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| L'Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur | 2,291 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Alma | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Ambroise | 4,262 | 48.7 | 80 | B+ |
3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Labrecque among them.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- 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 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.”
Questions about safety in Labrecque
Is Labrecque safe?
Labrecque scores 49.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Labrecque?
Police record assault most, 5.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (3.4) and Criminal Code traffic offences (3.3).
Is crime going up in Labrecque?
Down 17%: 51.8 in 2023, 43.2 in 2025.
How much of Labrecque’s crime do police solve?
About 59% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 73% 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 Labrecque 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).