Photo: Yanik Crépeau · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Laval-des-Rapides sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 57.2 in 2023 to 52.9 by 2025. Across all the graded crimes, Laval-des-Rapides lands on B (#242 of 503 in Quebec): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 10.8 and 25.1. Split in two, the index gives 82.7 for violence and 45.9 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2).
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. Crime severity and crime rate: one figure for all of the Laval service area.
The grade: B for Laval-des-Rapides
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Laval-des-Rapides on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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: #242 of 503 in Quebec and #736 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Laval’s figures
These are Laval’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Laval runs highest on drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.9), assault (6.5 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (2 per 1,000 against 1.7). Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 92 | 0.2 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 163.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 30.3 | 0.07 | 35% |
| Robbery | 194 | 0.4 | 44% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 44.7 | 0.10 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 120 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Breaking and entering | 665.3 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 164.3 | 0.4 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 919.3 | 2 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 176 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,063.3 | 6.7 | 27% |
| Mischief | 922.7 | 2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 184 | 0.4 | 71% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,363.7 | 3 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 313.7 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 971.7 | 2.1 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 400 | 0.9 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1,053.7 | 2.3 | 15% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Laval-des-Rapides, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 58.1 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 52.9 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Laval-des-Rapides | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 58.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 57.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Laval-des-Rapides, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Laval-des-Rapides
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laval-des-Rapides | 41,971 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Pont-Viau | 14,608 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Nouveau-Bordeaux | 30,171 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Chomedey | 81,813 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Cartierville | 24,617 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Sault-au-Récollet | 25,464 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Nicolas-Viel | 19,361 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
The places around Laval-des-Rapides all score higher on the index. Its police also cover 2 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
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Laval-des-Rapides carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Laval-des-Rapides
Is Laval-des-Rapides safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Laval-des-Rapides’s Crime Severity Index stands at 56.1 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.3 violent incidents and 17.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Laval-des-Rapides?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (6.7 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6.5, and other Criminal Code offences, at 4.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Laval-des-Rapides?
Down 8%: 57.2 in 2023, 52.9 in 2025.
How much of Laval-des-Rapides’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 43% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 60% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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).