Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Plaisance is close to typical for Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index climbed from 55.7 in 2023 to 63.1 by 2025. Violence and property crime split as 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Plaisance’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Both towns next door with figures record 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Papineau MRC.
What stands out about safety in Plaisance
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 60% of Plaisance’s crime, weighted by seriousness (79% of violent crime, 41% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Plaisance’s two halves part ways: 107.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 44 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Plaisance, 61.7. 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.
Plaisance: B− for safety, and why
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.
Plaisance, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 66.2; 2023 was the lightest, at 55.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Plaisance | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 66.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.7 | 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 Plaisance, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Plaisance’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Plaisance runs highest on assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.7 | 58% |
| Breaking and entering | 66.7 | 2.5 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 56.7 | 2.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18 | 0.7 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 56 | 2.1 | 34% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.4 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 62 | 2.3 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 31 | 1.1 | 65% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 23.7 | 0.9 | 28% |
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.
Around 470 violent incidents a year in the 27,100-resident police area around Plaisance, 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 370 property crimes, plus 220 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Plaisance
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plaisance | 1,191 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Papineauville | 2,332 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Thurso | 3,439 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Wendover | 10,896 | 46.8 | 72.6 | A− |
| Saint-André-Avellin | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| Rockland | 30,375 | 38.2 | 56.7 | A |
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest | 1,016 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Plaisance. Wendover, 12.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 46.8 to 61.7. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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. Where the Sûreté du Québec polices, Statistics Canada publishes one figure per MRC; Plaisance shares it with its neighbours.
Questions about safety in Plaisance
Is Plaisance safe?
The short answer is an index of 61.7 for Plaisance (2023–2025), built from 17.5 violent incidents and 13.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Plaisance?
Police record assault most, 8.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of Criminal Code traffic offences (3.7) and fraud (3.4).
Is crime going up in Plaisance?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 13%, to 63.1 from 55.7.
How much of Plaisance’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 79% of violent crime and 41% of everything else, 60% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Plaisance together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).