Photo: Nicogag · Public domainCrime per resident in L'Isle-Verte runs lower than in 72% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 72.4 and its non-violent half to 39, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering L'Isle-Verte reported through 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Even so, each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Rivière-du-Loup MRC.
What stands out about safety in L'Isle-Verte
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; L'Isle-Verte’s police clear 56%, 70% of violent crime and 45% of the rest. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, L'Isle-Verte scores 48.3. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
L'Isle-Verte’s index splits into violent crime, 72.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 39 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind L'Isle-Verte’s grade
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.
What police record in L'Isle-Verte, by type
Assault 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 | 16.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.3 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 36.3 | 1 | 48% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9 | 0.2 | 63% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16 | 0.4 | 50% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 185 | 5.1 | 57% |
| Mischief | 96 | 2.6 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 87 | 2.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 48.3 | 1.3 | 73% |
| Impaired driving | 94.7 | 2.6 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 101.7 | 2.8 | 11% |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, L'Isle-Verte’s index dropped 9%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 51.4; 2025 was the lightest, at 44.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | L'Isle-Verte | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48.8 | 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 L'Isle-Verte, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 390 violent incidents a year in the 36,400-resident police area around L'Isle-Verte, 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.
Property crime adds about 520 a year and other violations 390 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around L'Isle-Verte
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Isle-Verte | 1,427 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Saint-Arsène | 1,269 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges | 1,146 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Trois-Pistoles | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| Cacouna | 1,888 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
L'Isle-Verte has the lowest index of the places around it. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for L'Isle-Verte alone.
Questions about safety in L'Isle-Verte
Is L'Isle-Verte safe?
L'Isle-Verte’s Crime Severity Index is 48.3 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 10.7 violent incidents and 14.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in L'Isle-Verte?
The three biggest groups are Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.9, theft under $5,000 at 5.1 and assault at 4.8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in L'Isle-Verte?
Down 9%: 48.8 in 2023, 44.6 in 2025.
How much of L'Isle-Verte’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 56% of crime (70% of violent crime, 45% 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 L'Isle-Verte 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).