Photo: Benjilafouine · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Lac-Simon is close to typical for Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 61.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Taking everything together, Lac-Simon scores B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Still, the index rose from 55.7 in 2023 to 63.1 in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Papineau MRC.
What stands out about safety in Lac-Simon
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
With 58% of its homes not lived in all year, Lac-Simon counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 60% for Lac-Simon (79% violent, 41% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Lac-Simon scores 107.3 for violence and 44 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
About the Quebec norm
Lac-Simon’s index of 61.7 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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-Simon’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-Simon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 66.2, 2024 topped the three years, and 2023 was lowest at 55.7. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac-Simon | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 66.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.7 | 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-Simon, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Lac-Simon, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Lac-Simon runs highest on assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.7 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 66.7 | 2.5 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.7 | 2.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18 | 0.7 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56 | 2.1 | 34% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.3 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 31 | 1.1 | 65% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 0.9 | 28% |
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.
About 470 violent incidents a year across the police area of 27,100 residents that includes Lac-Simon, 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 370 a year and other violations 220 (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-Simon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Simon | 1,159 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Montpellier | 1,253 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Ripon | 1,835 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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 reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Lac-Simon among them.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Lac-Simon
Is Lac-Simon safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Lac-Simon’s Crime Severity Index stands at 61.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Lac-Simon?
Most often it is assault: 8.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.7 and fraud at 3.4.
Is crime going up in Lac-Simon?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 13%, to 63.1 from 55.7.
How much of Lac-Simon’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 79% of violent crime and 41% of everything else, 60% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Lac-Simon 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).