Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lac-Supérieur has less crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 48.8 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On the record of crime the police covering Lac-Supérieur reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes B+ for safety. The local count comes to 11.9 violent incidents and 11.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Laurentides MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Lac-Supérieur
More people here than live here
About 42% of Lac-Supérieur’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Lac-Supérieur moved from 67.1 to 34.2, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Lac-Supérieur’s police clear 61%, 80% of violent crime and 46% of the rest. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Lac-Supérieur scores 48.8. 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.
Inside Lac-Supérieur’s B+ for safety
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.
In Lac-Supérieur, down 49% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 67.1 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 34.2. Set beside it, 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-Supérieur | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 67.1 | 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-Supérieur, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Lac-Supérieur, by type
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20 | 0.4 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.1 | 89% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 21 | 0.4 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 99 | 1.9 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.2 | 71% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.7 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 16 | 0.3 | 29% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 139 | 2.6 | 38% |
| Mischief | 97.7 | 1.8 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 16 | 0.3 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 181 | 3.4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.4 | 82% |
| Drug violations | 91.3 | 1.7 | 84% |
| Impaired driving | 127.7 | 2.4 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 92.7 | 1.7 | 24% |
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 630 violent incidents a year across the police area of 54,200 residents that includes Lac-Supérieur, 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 640 property crimes and 570 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-Supérieur
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-Supérieur | 2,122 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré | 4,009 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Mont-Tremblant | 11,879 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts | 12,154 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
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
- One figure for the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Lac-Supérieur among them.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Lac-Supérieur
Is Lac-Supérieur safe?
Statistics Canada puts Lac-Supérieur at 48.8 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 11.9 and property crimes at 11.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Lac-Supérieur?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.8, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Lac-Supérieur?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 49%, to 34.2 from 67.1.
How much of Lac-Supérieur’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 61% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 80% of violent crime and 46% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lac-Supérieur 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).