Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Angus runs lower than in 93% of Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is A, on crime the police covering Angus reported from 2023 to 2025: #120 of 862 in Ontario. Add to that, the yearly rates were 7.0 violent incidents and 12.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 50.9 and other offences to 26.5, beside norms of 89.4 and 56. In 2023 the index stood at 34.2; it fell to 30 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Nottawasaga (New Tecumseth/Essa/Adjala Tosorontio) detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Angus
Below Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 33.2 in Angus. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 51% for Angus (77% violent, 30% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Angus stands 6th, the lowest first. 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 Angus’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.
Crime in Angus, type by type
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Angus places 6th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 3 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 6 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 7 | Picton Ontario | 27,544 | 35.5 | 50.9 | A |
| 8 | Beaumont Alberta | 26,305 | 37 | 46.8 | A |
| 9 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| 11 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 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 Angus in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Angus 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.
And about 1,040 property crimes, plus 380 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Angus, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 35.5; 2025 was lightest, at 30. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Angus | 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 Angus, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Angus
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angus | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| Barrie | 174,469 | 60.8 | 73 | B− |
| Adjala-Tosorontio | 11,948 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| Springwater | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Angus. Closest is Springwater, 19 km away, at 22.8 to 33.2 here. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Angus together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Angus
Is Angus safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Angus scores 33.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 7 violent and 12.7 property incidents 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 Angus?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (4.5 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4, and other Criminal Code offences, at 3, follow.
Is crime going up in Angus?
The reverse: 34.2 in 2023 came down to 30 by 2025, 12% lower.
How much of Angus’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 51% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 77% of violent crime and 30% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Angus 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).