Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Addington Highlands than in 71% of Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 46%, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. It grades C for safety on crime the police covering Addington Highlands reported from 2023 to 2025: #783 of 862 in Ontario. Its violent half comes to 105.8 and its non-violent half to 76.7, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. The local count comes to 19.8 violent incidents and 28.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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.
What stands out about safety in Addington Highlands
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Seasonal homes make up about 45% of Addington Highlands’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Addington Highlands records 5.6 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Heavier than Ontario’s middle
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Addington Highlands, 84.5. Towns its size ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Addington Highlands comes 29th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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.
Inside Addington Highlands’s C for safety
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: #783 of 862 in Ontario and #1,775 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Addington Highlands’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Addington Highlands runs highest on sexual assault (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.9), break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and assault (10.9 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 5.6 | 24% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 1.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9.7 | 3.5 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19.3 | 7 | 14% |
| Mischief | 11.3 | 4.1 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 5.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2 | 0.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 4.3 | 1.6 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Addington Highlands places 29th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Front of Yonge Ontario | 2,773 | 49.6 | 50.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Atikokan Ontario | 2,796 | 68.9 | 109.7 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Ferme-Neuve Quebec | 2,816 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 27 | Saint-Prime Quebec | 2,808 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 28 | Little Current Ontario | 2,764 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| 29 | Addington Highlands Ontario | 2,827 | 84.5 | 105.8 | C |
| 30 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley British Columbia | 2,761 | 87 | 109.6 | C |
| 31 | Minnedosa Manitoba | 2,859 | 89.9 | 92.1 | C |
| 32 | Grimshaw Alberta | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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 Addington Highlands in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Addington Highlands’s police: about 55 violent incidents a year over 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.
Property crime adds about 78 a year and other violations 29 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Addington Highlands’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 90.5, with 2023 the lightest at 79.7. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Addington Highlands | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 90.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 79.7 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Addington Highlands, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Addington Highlands
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addington Highlands | 2,827 | 84.5 | 105.8 | C |
| North Frontenac (14 km) | 2,515 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Tweed (32 km) | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Madoc (34 km) | 2,467 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Central Frontenac (34 km) | 5,348 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Centre Hastings (38 km) | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Addington Highlands. North Frontenac, 13.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 78.4 to 84.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 14–38 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Addington Highlands.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
- A small police area. The police behind these figures serve about 2,827 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Addington Highlands
Is Addington Highlands safe?
Statistics Canada puts Addington Highlands at 84.5 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 19.8 and property crimes at 28.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Addington Highlands?
The three biggest groups are assault at 10.9, theft under $5,000 at 7 and other Criminal Code offences at 7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Addington Highlands?
Not much: the index went from 79.7 in 2023 to 83.3 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Addington Highlands’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 46% of crime (73% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Addington Highlands’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).