Photo: Guerinf · CC0Saint-Lin--Laurentides sees less crime per resident than 63% of Canadian towns
The yearly rates were 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 54 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 66. The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Saint-Lin--Laurentides reported from 2023 to 2025: #218 of 503 in Quebec. Steady over the three years, the index read 53.5 in 2023 and 56.1 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Montcalm MRC).
What stands out about safety in Saint-Lin--Laurentides
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Saint-Lin--Laurentides is 23rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s police clear 44%, 60% of violent crime and 29% of the rest. Questions ↓
About the Quebec norm
Set among Quebec’s towns, whose median is 56.1, Saint-Lin--Laurentides scores 54. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s index splits into violent crime, 93.4 here and 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 38.7 against 56. By type ↓
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 Saint-Lin--Laurentides’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: #218 of 503 in Quebec and #691 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What police record in Saint-Lin--Laurentides, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Lin--Laurentides runs highest on sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 67.3 | 0.9 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 0.3 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 11 | 0.1 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Other violent violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Breaking and entering | 125 | 1.7 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 30.3 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 197.7 | 2.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 53 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.7 | 2.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 116 | 1.6 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 18.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Administration of justice violations | 200 | 2.7 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 39 | 0.5 | 83% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 114.3 | 1.6 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Saint-Lin--Laurentides, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 56.1, with 2024 the lightest at 52.3. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Lin--Laurentides | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.1 | 60 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 53.5 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Lin--Laurentides, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 830 violent incidents a year across the police area of 74,700 residents that includes Saint-Lin--Laurentides, 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 910 property crimes, plus 550 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Saint-Lin--Laurentides is 23rd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 14 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 15 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 20 | King Ontario | 29,077 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 21 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Quebec | 26,786 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 22 | Saint-Lambert Quebec | 23,355 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides Quebec | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 24 | Enfield Nova Scotia | 26,960 | 55.1 | 63.4 | B |
| 25 | Thetford Mines Quebec | 27,155 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| 26 | Beamsville Ontario | 28,356 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 200.6 | 214.9 | 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 Saint-Lin--Laurentides in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Saint-Lin--Laurentides
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Lin--Laurentides | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Esprit | 2,313 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines | 15,904 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Saint-Calixte | 7,627 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| Sainte-Sophie | 19,467 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| Sainte-Julienne | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Saint-Lin--Laurentides. Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, 9.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 47.9 to 54. The comparison skips 4 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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 reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Saint-Lin--Laurentides among them.
Questions about safety in Saint-Lin--Laurentides
Is Saint-Lin--Laurentides safe?
Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s Crime Severity Index is 54 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 11.3 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Lin--Laurentides?
The three biggest groups are assault at 5.7, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.5 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Lin--Laurentides?
Not much: the index went from 53.5 in 2023 to 56.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint-Lin--Laurentides’s crime do police solve?
44%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 60% and non-violent crime at 29%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Saint-Lin--Laurentides 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).