Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Adjala-Tosorontio than in 93% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 34.2 to 30. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Adjala-Tosorontio reported put it at A for safety: #120 of 862 in Ontario. Of the two halves, violence comes to 50.9 and other offences to 26.5, beside norms of 89.4 and 56. In a usual year, 7.0 violent incidents and 12.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Nottawasaga (New Tecumseth/Essa/Adjala Tosorontio) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Adjala-Tosorontio
Below Ontario’s typical town
Adjala-Tosorontio’s index of 33.2 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 51% of Adjala-Tosorontio’s crime, weighted by seriousness (77% of violent crime, 30% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Adjala-Tosorontio places 8th from the lowest 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.
What’s behind Adjala-Tosorontio’s grade
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: #120 of 862 in Ontario and #156 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.
Adjala-Tosorontio’s crime by kind
Theft under $5,000 and break and enter sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15.3 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11.3 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 15 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8 | 0.10 | 96% |
| Other violent violations | 12 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Breaking and entering | 57.7 | 0.7 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8.3 | 0.1 | 81% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 77.3 | 1 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 31 | 0.4 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 370 | 4.5 | 25% |
| Mischief | 156.7 | 1.9 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 20 | 0.2 | 49% |
| Administration of justice violations | 155 | 1.9 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 24.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Drug violations | 36 | 0.4 | 73% |
| Impaired driving | 67 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5.3 | 0.07 | 38% |
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.
By its index, Adjala-Tosorontio stands 8th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamilton Ontario | 11,810 | 25.7 | 30.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Drayton Ontario | 11,518 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Georgian Bluffs Ontario | 12,061 | 29.2 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Norwich Ontario | 12,321 | 31.5 | 27.6 | A |
| 6 | Millbrook Ontario | 11,507 | 31.7 | 42.8 | A |
| 7 | Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine Quebec | 12,427 | 32.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 8 | Adjala-Tosorontio Ontario | 11,948 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 9 | Tay Ontario | 11,968 | 34.3 | 46.4 | A |
| 10 | Morrisburg Ontario | 11,943 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 11 | Ramara Ontario | 11,551 | 37.3 | 55.6 | A |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Grey Highlands Ontario | 12,148 | 39.7 | 47.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Williams Lake British Columbia | 11,462 | 248.9 | 248.6 | 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 Adjala-Tosorontio in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Adjala-Tosorontio is part of, 83,000 residents, recorded about 570 violent incidents a year (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 1,040 property crimes and 380 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Adjala-Tosorontio, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 35.5, with 2025 the lightest at 30. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Adjala-Tosorontio | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | 60 |
| 2024 | 35.5 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 34.2 | 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 Adjala-Tosorontio, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Adjala-Tosorontio
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Adjala-Tosorontio together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
Questions about safety in Adjala-Tosorontio
Is Adjala-Tosorontio safe?
Adjala-Tosorontio’s Crime Severity Index is 33.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 7 violent incidents and 12.7 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 Adjala-Tosorontio?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 4.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4) and other Criminal Code offences (3).
Is crime going up in Adjala-Tosorontio?
No: the index fell 12%, from 34.2 in 2023 to 30 in 2025.
How much of Adjala-Tosorontio’s crime do police solve?
51%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 77% and non-violent crime at 30%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Adjala-Tosorontio and everywhere else it polices.
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).