Photo: Matilde Park from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime in Beamsville is close to typical for Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 72.6 and 49.9. Violence and property crime split as 9.4 violent incidents and 25.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Its letter overall is B (#377 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 55.4 to 53.8.
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 Niagara Region (St. Catharines) service area.
What stands out about safety in Beamsville
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Beamsville stands 28th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Near the Ontario middle
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 56.1 in Beamsville. 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 Beamsville’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: #377 of 862 in Ontario and #736 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.
Beamsville’s crime by kind
Drug offences and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 11.7 | 0.02 | 79% |
| Sexual violations against children | 139.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 115.3 | 0.2 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 23.7 | 0.04 | 55% |
| Robbery | 184.3 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 31 | 0.06 | 90% |
| Other violent violations | 100 | 0.2 | 56% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,186.7 | 2.2 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 118.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 959.7 | 1.8 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 240.3 | 0.4 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 6,173.3 | 11.5 | 17% |
| Mischief | 1,897 | 3.5 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 100 | 0.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 3,185 | 5.9 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 278.3 | 0.5 | 51% |
| Drug violations | 280.3 | 0.5 | 89% |
| Impaired driving | 558.3 | 1 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 129.3 | 0.2 | 8% |
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, Beamsville places 28th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 2 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 4 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Enfield Nova Scotia | 26,960 | 55.1 | 63.4 | B |
| 26 | Thetford Mines Quebec | 27,155 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| 27 | Grimsby Ontario | 31,478 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 28 | Beamsville Ontario | 28,356 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 29 | Collingwood Ontario | 28,366 | 57.8 | 66.4 | B |
| 30 | Lunenburg Nova Scotia | 26,862 | 63.1 | 76.8 | B− |
| 31 | Squamish British Columbia | 28,578 | 69.7 | 62.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Sept-Îles Quebec | 24,483 | 103.9 | 209.6 | C− |
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 Beamsville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Beamsville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (58.9) and 2025 the trough (53.8). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Beamsville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 58.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 55.4 | 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 Beamsville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 5,080 violent incidents a year across the police area of 551,100 residents that includes Beamsville, 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 13,500 property crimes and 4,880 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 Beamsville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beamsville | 28,356 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| Grimsby | 31,478 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| Smithville | 16,586 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| St. Catharines | 153,865 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| Pelham | 19,980 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| Fifty Point | 3,690 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Thorold | 33,844 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One service, several municipalities. The service that polices Beamsville reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Beamsville
Is Beamsville safe?
Beamsville scores 56.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.4 violent incidents and 25.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Beamsville?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 11.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (6.8) and fraud (5.4).
Is crime going up in Beamsville?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 55.4 to 53.8.
How much of Beamsville’s crime do police solve?
About 37% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 49% of violent and 30% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Beamsville 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).