Photo: Alain Hardy · CC BY 3.0Notre-Dame-du-Laus sees more crime per resident than three in five Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 73.1 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, the grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Notre-Dame-du-Laus reported from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. By 2025 the index had climbed to 72.3, up from 68.6 in 2023.
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 Antoine-Labelle MRC.
What stands out about safety in Notre-Dame-du-Laus
A busy place, counted per resident
About 52% of Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s police clear 62%, 82% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s index splits into violent crime, 131 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 50.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Heavier than Quebec’s middle
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Notre-Dame-du-Laus, 73.1. 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 Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s C+
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 Notre-Dame-du-Laus, by type
Against the typical town its size, Notre-Dame-du-Laus runs highest on assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7). Mischief 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 | 35.3 | 0.9 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 18.3 | 0.5 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 86.3 | 2.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 20.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73 | 1.9 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 155 | 4.1 | 49% |
| Mischief | 116.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.5 | 77% |
| Administration of justice violations | 146.3 | 3.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Drug violations | 63.3 | 1.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 93.3 | 2.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 70 | 1.8 | 13% |
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.
Notre-Dame-du-Laus, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (78.4) and 2023 the trough (68.6). 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 | Notre-Dame-du-Laus | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.6 | 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 Notre-Dame-du-Laus, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 770 violent incidents a year across the police area of 38,200 residents that includes Notre-Dame-du-Laus, 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 630 property crimes and 450 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Notre-Dame-du-Laus
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notre-Dame-du-Laus | 1,912 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| Val-des-Bois (26 km) | 1,001 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Messines (39 km) | 1,691 | 90.6 | 152.3 | C |
| Montpellier (40 km) | 1,253 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Gracefield (40 km) | 2,544 | 90.6 | 152.3 | C |
| Lac-Simon (41 km) | 1,159 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 3 come in under Notre-Dame-du-Laus. The nearest of them, Val-des-Bois (26 km away), scores 61.7 against 73.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 26–41 km from Notre-Dame-du-Laus.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared across the MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Notre-Dame-du-Laus among them.
Questions about safety in Notre-Dame-du-Laus
Is Notre-Dame-du-Laus safe?
Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s Crime Severity Index is 73.1 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 20.5 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Notre-Dame-du-Laus?
Assault is the most common, at 10 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (5.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (5).
Is crime going up in Notre-Dame-du-Laus?
It went up 5% between 2023 and 2025, from 68.6 to 72.3.
How much of Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 62% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 82% of violent and 41% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Notre-Dame-du-Laus 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).