Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Lac-Beauport has less crime per resident than 97% of Canadian towns
None of the 6 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Lac-Beauport’s Safety Grade is A+, on crime the police covering Lac-Beauport reported from 2023 to 2025: #1 of 503 in Quebec. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 46.7 and 21.1. In a usual year, 6.8 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 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. Measured across the Jacques-Cartier MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Lac-Beauport
Lighter than Quebec’s middle
Lac-Beauport’s index of 28.2 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Lac-Beauport places 5th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 48% of Lac-Beauport’s crime, weighted by seriousness (69% of violent crime, 30% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Lac-Beauport’s two halves part ways: 46.7 for violence (typical 85.7) and 21.1 for the rest (typical 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.
What’s behind Lac-Beauport’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.
Its place: #1 of 503 in Quebec and #72 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.
Lac-Beauport’s crime by kind
Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 28.3 | 0.6 | 64% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.3 | 0.1 | 81% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 37 | 0.7 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 49.7 | 1 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12 | 0.2 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 98 | 1.9 | 19% |
| Mischief | 68.3 | 1.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 8 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.3 | 0.8 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.1 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 11.7 | 0.2 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 19.3 | 0.4 | 19% |
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.
Lac-Beauport comes 5th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| 2 | Tavistock Ontario | 8,710 | 23.1 | 27.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Plattsville Ontario | 8,251 | 25.1 | 27.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Stone Mills Ontario | 8,523 | 28.2 | 33.5 | A+ |
| 5 | Lac-Beauport Quebec | 8,524 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 6 | Drummond/North Elmsley Ontario | 8,817 | 28.8 | 34.8 | A+ |
| 7 | Puslinch Ontario | 8,577 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 8 | South-West Oxford Ontario | 8,375 | 34.5 | 42.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Delson Quebec | 8,802 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 12 | Saint-Philippe Quebec | 8,674 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Nicolet Quebec | 8,737 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 23 | La Malbaie Quebec | 8,293 | 57.2 | 83.8 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Iqaluit Nunavut | 8,612 | 661.3 | 844 | 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 Lac-Beauport in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
51,700 residents, about 350 violent incidents a year: the police area Lac-Beauport 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.
And about 450 property crimes, plus 150 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
In Lac-Beauport, down 8% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (29.2) and 2025 the trough (26.6). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac-Beauport | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 29.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 28.9 | 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 Lac-Beauport, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Lac-Beauport
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Beauport | 8,524 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | 16,222 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Orsainville | 14,751 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | 17,558 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | 9,985 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Bourg-Royal | 14,430 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| Saint-Émile | 16,893 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
Lac-Beauport has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Lac-Beauport among them.
Questions about safety in Lac-Beauport
Is Lac-Beauport safe?
Lac-Beauport’s Crime Severity Index is 28.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 6.8 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Lac-Beauport?
Police record fraud most, 3.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (3) and theft under $5,000 (1.9).
Is crime going up in Lac-Beauport?
The reverse: 28.9 in 2023 came down to 26.6 by 2025, 8% lower.
How much of Lac-Beauport’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 48% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 69% of violent crime and 30% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lac-Beauport and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).