Photo: Michaël Dumais · Public domainPer resident, Lac-Bouchette records more crime than 62% of Canadian towns
The Safety Grade comes out at C+, drawn from crime the police covering Lac-Bouchette reported through 2023 to 2025. On top of that, for every 1,000 residents, 19.7 violent incidents and 18.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. In 2023 the index stood at 66.6; it rose to 75.4 in 2025. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 73.3 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Domaine-du-Roy MRC.
What stands out about safety in Lac-Bouchette
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Lac-Bouchette, yet 33% 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
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Lac-Bouchette’s police clear 59%, 73% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 73.3 in Lac-Bouchette. Towns its size ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Lac-Bouchette’s index splits into violent crime, 114.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 57.5 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.
What’s behind Lac-Bouchette’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.
What police record in Lac-Bouchette, by type
Against the typical town its size, Lac-Bouchette runs highest on assault (9.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 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 | 21.7 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 18.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 22.3 | 0.8 | 73% |
| Breaking and entering | 84.3 | 2.9 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.3 | 1.9 | 26% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14.3 | 0.5 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 151.7 | 5.2 | 55% |
| Mischief | 78.3 | 2.7 | 40% |
| Weapons violations | 10.7 | 0.4 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 93.7 | 3.2 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.5 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 104.3 | 3.6 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 65.3 | 2.2 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 51 | 1.7 | 27% |
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.
Lac-Bouchette, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 78; 2023 was the lightest, at 66.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac-Bouchette | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 66.6 | 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-Bouchette, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
29,200 residents, about 580 violent incidents a year: the police area Lac-Bouchette 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 540 a year and other violations 370 (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-Bouchette
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Bouchette | 1,191 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Chambord (22 km) | 1,800 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| Desbiens (26 km) | 1,034 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| Roberval (30 km) | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
2 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 22–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Lac-Bouchette.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Lac-Bouchette alone.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Lac-Bouchette
Is Lac-Bouchette safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Lac-Bouchette scores 73.3 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 19.7 violent and 18.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Lac-Bouchette?
Assault is the most common, at 9.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (5.2) and fraud (4.7).
Is crime going up in Lac-Bouchette?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 13%, to 75.4 from 66.6.
How much of Lac-Bouchette’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 59% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 73% of violent crime and 49% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Lac-Bouchette 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).