Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Armour than in 93% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Armour reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety. Split in two, the index gives 34.7 for violence and 32.3 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Behind the grade sit 5.4 violent incidents and 13.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 41% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%).
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 Huntsville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Armour
A busy place, counted per resident
About 39% of Armour’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Under the Ontario norm
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Armour scores 32.8. 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.
The A for Armour, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 35 km from Armour, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Armour, by type
Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5 | 1.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15 | 3.4 | 2% |
| Mischief | 12.3 | 2.8 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 4.7 | 1.1 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 4.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
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 people or more.
The detachment nearest Armour, 4,440 residents: around 24 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.
Property crime adds about 59 a year and other violations 36 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
The index in Armour, each year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (38) and 2025 the trough (27.2). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Armour | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 38 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Armour, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Armour
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armour | 1,698 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Burk's Falls | 1,031 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Perry | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Kearney | 1,055 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Strong | 1,624 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 4 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.
- A small police area. The police behind these figures serve about 4,442 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.”
Questions about safety in Armour
Is Armour safe?
Armour’s Crime Severity Index is 32.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 5.4 violent incidents and 13.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Armour?
Criminal Code traffic offences is the most common, at 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.6) and theft under $5,000 (3.4).
Is crime going up in Armour?
No: the index fell 18%, from 33 in 2023 to 27.2 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Armour’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 41% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 73% of violent and 26% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Armour 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).