Photo: A Disappearing Act · CC BY-SA 4.0Mount Royale is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Police clear 31% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%. What’s more, the overall Safety Grade is C+ (#17 of 88 in Nova Scotia), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. For every 1,000 residents, 13.8 violent incidents and 37.3 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, the figures are 10.8 and 25.1. Violence accounts for an index of 94.3 and other offences for 62.8, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2.
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 and crime rate covers the Halifax Metropolitan Area service area.
The C+ for Mount Royale, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Mount Royale can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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: #17 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,398 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Halifax Metropolitan Area’s crime, type by type
These are Halifax Metropolitan Area’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Halifax Metropolitan Area runs highest on theft under $5,000 (24 per 1,000 against 11.5), robbery (0.6 per 1,000 against 0.4) and assault (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.9). Drug offences and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.7 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 124.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 232.7 | 0.5 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 44.7 | 0.09 | 51% |
| Robbery | 289.7 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 59 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Other violent violations | 151.3 | 0.3 | 48% |
| Breaking and entering | 920.7 | 1.8 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 123 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 462.3 | 0.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 200.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12,134 | 24 | 12% |
| Mischief | 2,574 | 5.1 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 299.3 | 0.6 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,638.3 | 5.2 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 437.3 | 0.9 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 335.7 | 0.7 | 37% |
| Impaired driving | 773.7 | 1.5 | 88% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 36 | 0.07 | 24% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
In Mount Royale, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (73.5) and 2025 the trough (68.7). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mount Royale | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.7 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 73.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 71.9 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Mount Royale, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Mount Royale
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Royale | 9,340 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Fairview | 16,296 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Clayton Park West | 34,404 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Westmount | 23,207 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Windsor Park | 13,044 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| North End | 19,733 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| South End | 22,012 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. The figures for Mount Royale are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
Questions about safety in Mount Royale
Is Mount Royale safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Mount Royale comes to 71.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 13.8 violent incidents and 37.3 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Mount Royale?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 24, other Criminal Code offences at 8 and assault at 6.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Mount Royale?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 71.9 to 68.7.
How much of Mount Royale’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 31% of crime (49% of violent crime, 20% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the city.
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).