Photo: Hans-Jürgen Hübner · CC BY 3.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Assiginack than in 69% of Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Assiginack reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C for safety. A Crime Severity Index of 81.9, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Out of every 1,000 residents, 18.6 violent incidents and 19.7 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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: one figure for all of the Little Current (Manitoulin) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Assiginack
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 37% of Assiginack’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 ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 63% for Assiginack (80% violent, 53% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 69.5 in 2023 to 84.7 in 2025: that is Assiginack’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Over the Ontario norm
Assiginack’s index of 81.9 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. 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 sits behind Assiginack’s C
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 25 km off, which covers its own area rather than Assiginack.
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.
Crime in Assiginack, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Assiginack runs highest on drug offences (4.5 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (8.6 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Breaking and entering | 35.7 | 2.5 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.3 | 1.1 | 51% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 0.5 | 30% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 78 | 5.4 | 21% |
| Mischief | 62.3 | 4.3 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 19.3 | 1.3 | 76% |
| Administration of justice violations | 114.3 | 7.8 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 1 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 65.3 | 4.5 | 89% |
| Impaired driving | 81.7 | 5.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.1 | — |
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.
Assiginack’s index rose 22% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 91.6; 2023 was the lightest, at 69.5. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Assiginack | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 91.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 69.5 | 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 Assiginack, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 270 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Assiginack (14,700 residents), 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 290 property crimes and 350 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Assiginack
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assiginack | 1,137 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| Wikwemikong Unceded (9 km) | 2,875 | 583.1 | 762.6 | D− |
| Little Current (26 km) | 2,764 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| Central Manitoulin (29 km) | 2,386 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Assiginack with figures are 9–29 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Assiginack
Is Assiginack safe?
Assiginack scores 81.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 18.6 violent incidents and 19.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Assiginack?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 10.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (8.6) and Criminal Code traffic offences (8.5).
Is crime going up in Assiginack?
It went up 22% between 2023 and 2025, from 69.5 to 84.7.
How much of Assiginack’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 63% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 80% of violent and 53% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Assiginack 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).