Photo: Anna Frodesiak · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Morin-Heights than in 64% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 71.6 and its non-violent half to 46.7, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Morin-Heights reported from 2023 to 2025: #182 of 503 in Quebec. On top of that, the local count comes to 12.1 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Pays-d'en-Haut MRC.
What stands out about safety in Morin-Heights
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Morin-Heights is 10th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Morin-Heights’s police clear 45%, 69% of violent crime and 31% of the rest. Questions ↓
Near the Quebec middle
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Morin-Heights scores 53.5. 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 Morin-Heights’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: #182 of 503 in Quebec and #652 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.
What police record in Morin-Heights, by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 19.7 | 0.4 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 13.3 | 0.3 | 85% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Other violent violations | 11.7 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Breaking and entering | 101.7 | 2.1 | 24% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.2 | 67% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 105.3 | 2.1 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 0.5 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 223 | 4.5 | 28% |
| Mischief | 106 | 2.1 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 17.3 | 0.3 | 35% |
| Administration of justice violations | 194 | 3.9 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 20.7 | 0.4 | 66% |
| Drug violations | 38 | 0.8 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 138.3 | 2.8 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 101.7 | 2.1 | 16% |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Morin-Heights places 10th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Bruce Peninsula Ontario | 5,018 | 29.3 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Cobble Hill British Columbia | 5,074 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| 8 | Electoral Area F, Cariboo British Columbia | 5,016 | 51.7 | 55.1 | B+ |
| 9 | Edenwold No. 158 Saskatchewan | 4,932 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 10 | Morin-Heights Quebec | 5,086 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 11 | Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 5,194 | 53.8 | 81.1 | B |
| 12 | Carstairs Alberta | 5,248 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| 13 | Warwick Quebec | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Saint-Donat Quebec | 5,087 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Quebec | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Germain-de-Grantham Quebec | 5,054 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 28 | Montréal-Ouest Quebec | 5,197 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | 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 Morin-Heights in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 600 violent incidents a year across the police area of 50,300 residents that includes Morin-Heights, 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.
Add about 830 property crimes and 540 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Morin-Heights’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 54.3; 2025 was the lightest, at 52.6. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Morin-Heights | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 54.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 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 Morin-Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Morin-Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morin-Heights | 5,086 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Saint-Sauveur | 12,112 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Piedmont | 3,667 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Mille-Isles | 1,886 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| Sainte-Adèle | 15,216 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs | 4,080 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard | 3,974 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
5 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
- 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. 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.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Morin-Heights alone.
Questions about safety in Morin-Heights
Is Morin-Heights safe?
The short answer is an index of 53.5 for Morin-Heights (2023–2025), built from 12.1 violent incidents and 16.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Morin-Heights?
The three biggest groups are assault at 6.1, Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.3 and fraud at 4.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Morin-Heights?
The index stayed close to where it was, 53.5 in 2023 and 52.6 in 2025.
How much of Morin-Heights’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 45% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 69% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Morin-Heights 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).