Photo: Rapout · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Lac-au-Saumon than in 64% of Canadian towns
Year on year, 12.8 violent incidents and 11.7 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Safety Grade is B, on crime the police covering Lac-au-Saumon reported from 2023 to 2025. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 53.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Matapédia MRC.
What stands out about safety in Lac-au-Saumon
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Lac-au-Saumon stood at 70.3, by 2025 at 44.5. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Lac-au-Saumon’s police clear 63%, 86% of violent crime and 38% of the rest. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 53.7 in Lac-au-Saumon. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Lac-au-Saumon’s index splits into violent crime, 103.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 34.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Lac-au-Saumon’s B 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Lac-au-Saumon’s index fell 37% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 70.3, and 2025 the lightest at 44.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac-au-Saumon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 46.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 70.3 | 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 Lac-au-Saumon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Lac-au-Saumon, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14 | 0.8 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 1.5 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 0.8 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 55 | 3.1 | 45% |
| Mischief | 40 | 2.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.7 | 2.7 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 0.8 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 27 | 1.5 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 31.3 | 1.8 | 12% |
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.
17,800 residents, about 230 violent incidents a year: the police area Lac-au-Saumon belongs to, 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 210 a year and other violations 140 (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 Lac-au-Saumon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-au-Saumon | 1,485 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Amqui | 6,059 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
| Causapscal | 2,151 | 53.7 | 103.9 | B |
Sharing its police with 2 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
- 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. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Lac-au-Saumon alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
Questions about safety in Lac-au-Saumon
Is Lac-au-Saumon safe?
Statistics Canada puts Lac-au-Saumon at 53.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 12.8 and property crimes at 11.7 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Lac-au-Saumon?
Assault is the most common, at 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (3.8) and other Criminal Code offences (3.4).
Is crime going up in Lac-au-Saumon?
No: the index fell 37%, from 70.3 in 2023 to 44.5 in 2025.
How much of Lac-au-Saumon’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 63% of crime (86% of violent crime, 38% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Lac-au-Saumon 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).