Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Lac-des-Écorces records more crime than 61% of Canadian towns
Behind the grade sit 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. On crime the police covering Lac-des-Écorces reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety: #369 of 503 in Quebec. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 73.1 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. The index rose from 68.6 in 2023 to 72.3 in 2025.
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 Antoine-Labelle MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Lac-des-Écorces
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 62% of crime in Lac-des-Écorces ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 82% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 131 on Lac-des-Écorces’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 50.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Lac-des-Écorces comes 29th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Higher than most of Quebec
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Lac-des-Écorces, 73.1. 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.
The C+ for Lac-des-Écorces, and how it is built
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: #369 of 503 in Quebec and #1,539 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.
Which crimes make up Lac-des-Écorces’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Lac-des-Écorces runs highest on drug offences (1.7 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 35.3 | 0.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 2.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73 | 1.9 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 155 | 4.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 116.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 146.3 | 3.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 63.3 | 1.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 93.3 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 70 | 1.8 | 13% |
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-des-Écorces is 29th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lorne Manitoba | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Quebec | 2,999 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Scott Quebec | 2,938 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 7 | Stanstead Quebec | 2,994 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley Quebec | 2,938 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu Quebec | 2,984 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| 27 | Normandin Quebec | 3,065 | 68.9 | 107.3 | C+ |
| 28 | Cap-Pelé New Brunswick | 3,092 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Lac-des-Écorces Quebec | 3,005 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 30 | Division No. 1, Subdivision E Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,978 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| 31 | Grenville-sur-la-Rouge Quebec | 3,040 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 32 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 3,073 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | 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-des-Écorces in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Lac-des-Écorces, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 78.4; 2023 was lightest, at 68.6. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac-des-Écorces | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 78.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 68.6 | 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-des-Écorces, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
38,200 residents, about 770 violent incidents a year: the police area Lac-des-Écorces 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 630 a year and other violations 450 (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-des-Écorces
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-des-Écorces | 3,005 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Mont-Laurier | 14,598 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Chute-Saint-Philippe | 1,154 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Ferme-Neuve | 2,816 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
Its police also cover 3 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Lac-des-Écorces 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.
Questions about safety in Lac-des-Écorces
Is Lac-des-Écorces safe?
With 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Lac-des-Écorces comes to 73.1 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Lac-des-Écorces?
Most often it is assault: 10 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 5.1 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.
Is crime going up in Lac-des-Écorces?
It went up 5% between 2023 and 2025, from 68.6 to 72.3.
How much of Lac-des-Écorces’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 62% of crime (82% of violent crime, 41% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lac-des-Écorces 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).