Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Algonquin Highlands than in 77% of Canadian towns
Behind the grade sit 9.7 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Graded on crime the police covering Algonquin Highlands reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A− for safety: #223 of 862 in Ontario. Its violent half comes to 49.5 and its non-violent half to 43.2, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 49.2 to 44.3.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Haliburton Highlands detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Algonquin Highlands
More people here than live here
Seasonal homes make up about 62% of Algonquin Highlands’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Algonquin Highlands stands 12th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than Ontario’s middle
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 44.7 in Algonquin Highlands. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
Police cleared 46% of Algonquin Highlands’s crime, weighted by seriousness (76% of violent crime, 33% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Algonquin Highlands’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: #223 of 862 in Ontario and #407 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.
Algonquin Highlands’s crime by kind
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 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.10 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 48 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 31.3 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 103.7 | 5 | 19% |
| Mischief | 62 | 3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 82.3 | 3.9 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.6 | 89% |
| Impaired driving | 30 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.10 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Algonquin Highlands, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 49.2 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 40.7. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Algonquin Highlands | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 40.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 49.2 | 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 Algonquin Highlands, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Algonquin Highlands stands 12th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Garafraxa Ontario | 2,976 | 28.7 | 22 | A+ |
| 2 | Perry Ontario | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Laurier-Station Quebec | 2,838 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 10 | Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Quebec | 2,961 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 11 | Saint-Basile Quebec | 2,918 | 44.5 | 72 | A− |
| 12 | Algonquin Highlands Ontario | 2,915 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| 13 | North Shore Prince Edward Island | 2,994 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| 14 | Labelle Quebec | 2,861 | 48.8 | 71.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Markstay-Warren Ontario | 2,990 | 49.3 | 58.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 33 | Black River-Matheson Ontario | 2,899 | 97.4 | 171.6 | C− |
| 34 | Wawa Ontario | 2,943 | 97.9 | 182.2 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | 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 Algonquin Highlands in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 200 violent incidents a year across the police area of 21,100 residents that includes Algonquin Highlands, 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 350 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Algonquin Highlands
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Highlands | 2,915 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Minden Hills (18 km) | 7,841 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Haliburton Village (22 km) | 8,100 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Lake of Bays (32 km) | 4,105 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Highlands East (40 km) | 4,372 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Bracebridge (43 km) | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Algonquin Highlands. The nearest of them, Lake of Bays (32.2 km away), scores 32.8 against 44.7. Its police also cover 3 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Algonquin Highlands with figures are 18–43 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Algonquin Highlands’s are shared with its surroundings.
Questions about safety in Algonquin Highlands
Is Algonquin Highlands safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Algonquin Highlands comes to 44.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Algonquin Highlands?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (5.1) and theft under $5,000 (5).
Is crime going up in Algonquin Highlands?
Down 10%: 49.2 in 2023, 44.3 in 2025.
How much of Algonquin Highlands’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 46% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 76% of violent crime and 33% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Algonquin Highlands 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).