Photo: Héron du fleuve · CC0Per resident, Longue-Pointe records more crime than two in three Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Longue-Pointe reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C for safety: #396 of 503 in Quebec. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 80.3 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 60.3. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 81.4 then 78.4.
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 behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the Montréal service area.
What’s behind Longue-Pointe’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Longue-Pointe can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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: #396 of 503 in Quebec and #1,643 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.
What Montréal’s police record, by type
These are Montréal’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Montréal runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (4.3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and assault (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.9). Mischief sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 32 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 412.3 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 932.7 | 0.4 | 92% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 210.3 | 0.10 | 38% |
| Robbery | 2,329.3 | 1.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 371 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Other violent violations | 732.7 | 0.3 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 6,567 | 3.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 667 | 0.3 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9,140 | 4.3 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,353 | 0.6 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25,416 | 11.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 6,913.3 | 3.2 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 510 | 0.2 | 65% |
| Administration of justice violations | 6,916.3 | 3.2 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1,578.7 | 0.7 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 2,470.7 | 1.2 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 1,728 | 0.8 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6,866.3 | 3.2 | 8% |
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.
Where Longue-Pointe sits within Montréal
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Robbery per 1,000 a year
Longue-Pointe records more than the typical Montréal neighbourhood, 54th of 77 from the lowest.
Montréal’s neighbourhoods, lowest rate first
| # | Neighbourhood | Property | Robbery |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ile-des-Soeurs | 4.4 | 0.1 |
| 2 | René-Goupil | 5.4 | 0.2 |
| 3 | L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | 5.8 | 0.2 |
| 4 | Sault-Saint-Louis | 6.2 | 0.4 |
| 5 | Pierrefonds-Est | 6.6 | 0.4 |
| … | |||
| 52 | Petite-Bourgogne | 13.1 | 0.7 |
| 53 | Étienne Desmarteaux | 13.4 | 1 |
| 54 | Longue-Pointe | 13.9 | 1.3 |
| 55 | Beaurivage | 13.9 | 0.4 |
| 56 | Saint-Édouard | 14 | 1.4 |
| … | |||
| 73 | Saint-Henri | 24.5 | 2 |
| 74 | Hochelaga | 26 | 1.4 |
| 75 | Saint-Louis | 34.9 | 1.1 |
| 76 | Vieux-Montréal | 55.7 | 0.9 |
| 77 | René-Lévesque | 69.2 | 6.3 |
SPVM, Actes criminels (CC BY 4.0, Ville de Montréal), 2023–2025, placed in the quartiers: vehicle theft, theft from vehicles, mischief, break and enter (property) and robbery. Points are moved to an intersection by the SPVM.
The SPVM’s neighbourhood figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025: property crime and robbery only.
Longue-Pointe, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 81.4 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 78.4 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Longue-Pointe | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 81.2 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Longue-Pointe, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Longue-Pointe
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longue-Pointe | 20,337 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Guybourg | 3,554 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Louis-Riel | 19,647 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Maisonneuve | 20,651 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Marie-Victorin | 28,904 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Beaurivage | 13,574 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| Tétreaultville | 19,390 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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 Longue-Pointe
Is Longue-Pointe safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Longue-Pointe comes to 80.3. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.4 violent incidents and 29.1 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Longue-Pointe?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 11.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (8.2) and fraud (5.4).
Is crime going up in Longue-Pointe?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 81.4 to 78.4.
How much of Longue-Pointe’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 32% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 49% of violent and 21% of non-violent crime.
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) · SPVM, Actes criminels (CC BY 4.0, Ville de Montréal) · 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).