Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Lac-aux-Sables sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Of the two halves, violence comes to 77.5 and other offences to 48.3, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 55.4 to 48.7. Weighing it all, Lac-aux-Sables earns B for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 13.0 violent incidents and 15.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Mékinac MRC.
What stands out about safety in Lac-aux-Sables
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Lac-aux-Sables, yet 36% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Lac-aux-Sables (74% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 56.3 in Lac-aux-Sables. 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 Lac-aux-Sables’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.
Lac-aux-Sables, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (64.9) and 2025 the trough (48.7). 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-aux-Sables | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 64.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.4 | 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-aux-Sables, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Lac-aux-Sables, type by type
Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 9 | 0.7 | 81% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 0.6 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 41.3 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.3 | 2.5 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 3 | 42% |
| Mischief | 31.3 | 2.4 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.3 | 3.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.9 | 81% |
| Impaired driving | 22 | 1.7 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.7 | 1.1 | 2% |
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.
Around 170 violent incidents a year in the 13,200-resident police area around Lac-aux-Sables, 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.
Add about 210 property crimes and 110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Lac-aux-Sables
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-aux-Sables | 1,463 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Sainte-Thècle | 2,422 | 56.3 | 77.5 | B |
| Saint-Ubalde | 1,565 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Lac-aux-Sables 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 cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Lac-aux-Sables
Is Lac-aux-Sables safe?
Its police recorded 13 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Lac-aux-Sables a Crime Severity Index of 56.3. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Lac-aux-Sables?
Most often it is assault: 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 3.9 and fraud at 3.8.
Is crime going up in Lac-aux-Sables?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 48.7 from 55.4.
How much of Lac-aux-Sables’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 49% of crime (74% of violent crime, 34% 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-aux-Sables 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).