Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime in Lacolle sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Its 3 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Overall, it grades B− for safety (#285 of 503 in Quebec). Still, each year brought 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 62.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Haut-Richelieu MRC.
What stands out about safety in Lacolle
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Lacolle stood at 54, by 2025 at 71. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Lacolle is 17th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 44% of Lacolle’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 ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Lacolle scores 62.8. 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.
The B− for Lacolle, 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: #285 of 503 in Quebec and #942 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.
Year by year in Lacolle: up 32%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (71); 2023 was the low point, at 54. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lacolle | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 63.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 54 | 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 Lacolle, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Lacolle’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Lacolle runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.03) and drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7). 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 | 19 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Breaking and entering | 33.3 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 59% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 2 | 31% |
| Mischief | 55 | 2.2 | 31% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31 | 1.3 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 84 | 3.4 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23 | 0.9 | 20% |
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.
Lacolle comes 17th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| 2 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 3 | Rivière-Beaudette Quebec | 2,806 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 7 | Yamachiche Quebec | 2,801 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints Quebec | 2,841 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 15 | Saint-Côme Quebec | 2,810 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 16 | Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel Quebec | 2,770 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| 17 | Lacolle Quebec | 2,806 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| 18 | Sainte-Luce Quebec | 2,808 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| 19 | Atikokan Ontario | 2,796 | 68.9 | 109.7 | B− |
| 20 | Cultus Lake British Columbia | 2,773 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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 Lacolle in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Lacolle is part of, 24,900 residents, recorded about 330 violent incidents a year (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 310 property crimes, plus 340 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Lacolle
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lacolle | 2,806 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Noyan | 1,576 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix | 2,321 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle | 1,655 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville | 1,786 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Napierville | 4,187 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu | 2,165 | 62.8 | 83.3 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Lacolle. The comparison skips 3 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- 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. 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.”
- Shared across the MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Lacolle shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Lacolle
Is Lacolle safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Lacolle comes to 62.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 13.3 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Lacolle?
Top of the list is assault (6.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, and fraud, at 3.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Lacolle?
Up 32%: 54 in 2023, 71 in 2025.
How much of Lacolle’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 44% of crime (69% of violent crime, 30% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Lacolle and everywhere else it polices.
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).