Photo: abdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0For recorded crime, Pointe-Lebel sits in the middle of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 70, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Pointe-Lebel grades C+ for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, the index rose from 68.8 in 2023 to 72.6 in 2025.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Manicouagan MRC.
What stands out about safety in Pointe-Lebel
The violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Pointe-Lebel’s two halves part ways: 134 for violence (typical 86.4) and 45 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 54% of Pointe-Lebel’s crime, weighted by seriousness (61% of violent crime, 46% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Quebec’s typical town
Within Quebec, the median town comes to 56.1 on the index, against 70 in Pointe-Lebel. 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.
The grade: C+ for Pointe-Lebel
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.
Pointe-Lebel’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Pointe-Lebel runs highest on assault (9.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud 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 | 27.3 | 1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.4 | 75% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.2 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 17 | 0.6 | 57% |
| Breaking and entering | 45.7 | 1.6 | 37% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.2 | 46% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.2 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 100 | 3.6 | 49% |
| Mischief | 61.3 | 2.2 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 16.7 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 110.7 | 4 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 64% |
| Drug violations | 53 | 1.9 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 55.3 | 2 | 91% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 66.3 | 2.4 | 10% |
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.
Pointe-Lebel, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 72.6, and 2024 lowest at 68.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pointe-Lebel | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 68.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 68.8 | 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 Pointe-Lebel, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
27,600 residents, about 570 violent incidents a year: the police area Pointe-Lebel belongs to, 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 350 property crimes and 340 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 Pointe-Lebel
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-Lebel | 1,800 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Pointe-aux-Outardes | 1,447 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Chute-aux-Outardes | 1,406 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Baie-Comeau | 20,660 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| Ragueneau | 1,287 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “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’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Pointe-Lebel alone.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Pointe-Lebel
Is Pointe-Lebel safe?
With 20.6 violent incidents and 12.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Pointe-Lebel comes to 70 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pointe-Lebel?
Top of the list is assault (9.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.3, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in Pointe-Lebel?
Up 5%: 68.8 in 2023, 72.6 in 2025.
How much of Pointe-Lebel’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 54%: 61% for violent crime and 46% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Pointe-Lebel and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).