Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Laurierville runs lower than in 60% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 55.6 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on crime the police covering Laurierville reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 15.0 violent incidents and 16.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Érable MRC.
What stands out about safety in Laurierville
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 55% of crime in Laurierville ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 73% of violent crime and 42% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Down since 2023
From 60.7 in 2023 to 50.1 in 2025: that is Laurierville’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Close to Quebec’s typical town
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Laurierville, 55.6. 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.
Laurierville: B for safety, and why
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.
Which crimes make up Laurierville’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Laurierville runs highest on assault (7.8 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud 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 | 15 | 0.6 | 71% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 61.7 | 2.5 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.3 | 54% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 41.3 | 1.7 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 99.7 | 4.1 | 53% |
| Mischief | 63.7 | 2.6 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 42 | 1.7 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 18.7 | 0.8 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 35 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 36 | 1.5 | 17% |
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.
Year by year in Laurierville: down 17%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 60.7, and its lowest 2025, at 50.1. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Laurierville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 60.7 | 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 Laurierville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 370 violent incidents a year in the 24,500-resident police area around Laurierville, 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 400 property crimes, plus 160 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 Laurierville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurierville | 1,368 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Plessisville | 2,718 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Lyster | 1,679 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Plessisville | 6,774 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| Val-Alain | 1,084 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Laurierville among them.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Laurierville
Is Laurierville safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 55.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Laurierville stands, with 15 violent and 16.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Laurierville?
Most often it is assault: 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 4.4 and theft under $5,000 at 4.1.
Is crime going up in Laurierville?
Down 17%: 60.7 in 2023, 50.1 in 2025.
How much of Laurierville’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 55% of crime (73% of violent crime, 42% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Laurierville 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).