Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Lambton runs lower than in 71% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 81.3 and other offences for 35.6, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Its letter for safety is B+, worked out from crime the police covering Lambton reported over 2023 to 2025. By contrast, in a usual year, 12.9 violent incidents and 10.3 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Shared with the rest of the Granit MRC: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Lambton
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
With 34% of its homes not lived in all year, Lambton counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Lambton ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 81.3 on Lambton’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 35.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 48.4 in Lambton. 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 Lambton’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.
About 290 violent incidents a year across the police area of 22,700 residents that includes Lambton, 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 230 property crimes and 160 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Which crimes make up Lambton’s figures
Assault and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 16.7 | 0.7 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 1.3 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.9 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.2 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 1.7 | 44% |
| Mischief | 46 | 2 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Administration of justice violations | 40 | 1.8 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Drug violations | 27.7 | 1.2 | 51% |
| Impaired driving | 33.7 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 22 | 1 | 9% |
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.
Lambton’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 52, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 46.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lambton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Lambton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Lambton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambton | 1,714 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
| La Guadeloupe | 1,927 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| Stratford | 1,062 | 48.4 | 81.3 | B+ |
Same police, same number: one neighbour drops out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Policed as an MRC. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Lambton shares it with its neighbours.
- The index’s scale. 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.
Questions about safety in Lambton
Is Lambton safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 48.4 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Lambton stands, with 12.9 violent and 10.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Lambton?
Assault is the most common, at 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (3.8) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.8).
Is crime going up in Lambton?
Hardly at all, from 47 in 2023 to 46.2 in 2025.
How much of Lambton’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 52%: 67% for violent crime and 39% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lambton 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).