Photo: Louise Montgrain · CC BY 3.0Lorraine sees less crime per resident than 72% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 61 and other offences to 43, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. One of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Lorraine reported put it at B+ for safety: #144 of 503 in Quebec. Typical years here bring 10.5 violent incidents plus 17.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.9 plus 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Thérèse-de-Blainville service area.
What stands out about safety in Lorraine
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 51% for Lorraine (78% violent, 36% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Lorraine places 16th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Lorraine’s index of 47.9 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. 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.
What sits behind Lorraine’s B+
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: #144 of 503 in Quebec and #482 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.
Crime in Lorraine, type by type
Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.07 | 75% |
| Robbery | 19.7 | 0.2 | 62% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 19.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 143 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.2 | 78% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 131.7 | 1.6 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26 | 0.3 | 24% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 522.3 | 6.5 | 39% |
| Mischief | 115.3 | 1.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 0.1 | 80% |
| Administration of justice violations | 147 | 1.8 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.7 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 79.7 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 189.3 | 2.4 | 22% |
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.
The police area Lorraine is part of, 81,000 residents, recorded about 840 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 1,380 property crimes, plus 570 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Lorraine comes 16th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury Quebec | 10,147 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Quebec | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | La Pêche Quebec | 9,379 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Otterburn Park Quebec | 9,460 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Mitchell Ontario | 10,080 | 44.1 | 52.1 | A− |
| 14 | Vankleek Hill Ontario | 9,321 | 44.6 | 56.6 | A− |
| 15 | Wiarton Ontario | 9,799 | 46 | 52.4 | A− |
| 16 | Lorraine Quebec | 9,721 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 17 | Electoral Area C (Puntledge - Black Creek), Comox Valley British Columbia | 9,803 | 49.5 | 61.5 | B+ |
| 18 | Elizabethtown-Kitley Ontario | 9,886 | 49.6 | 50.6 | B+ |
| 19 | Shawnigan British Columbia | 9,903 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | 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 Lorraine in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Lorraine’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 51.9; 2023 was the lightest, at 45.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lorraine | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 51.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 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 Lorraine, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Lorraine
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorraine | 9,721 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Bois-des-Filion | 10,666 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Rosemère | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Auteuil | 27,843 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
| Sainte-Thérèse | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Blainville | 61,739 | 34.9 | 41.4 | A |
| Sainte-Rose | 37,408 | 56.1 | 82.7 | B |
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Lorraine. The nearest of them, Blainville (6.4 km away), scores 34.9 against 47.9. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
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. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared policing. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Lorraine included.
Questions about safety in Lorraine
Is Lorraine safe?
The short answer is an index of 47.9 for Lorraine (2023–2025), built from 10.5 violent incidents and 17.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Lorraine?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (6.5 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 5.7, and fraud, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Lorraine?
Hardly at all, from 45.4 in 2023 to 46.4 in 2025.
How much of Lorraine’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 78% of violent crime and 36% of everything else, 51% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Lorraine 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).