Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Beaverton has less crime per resident than 75% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 47 to 43.2. What’s more, that puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Beaverton reported from 2023 to 2025: #234 of 862 in Ontario. Its violent half comes to 61.4 and its non-violent half to 39.9, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. In a usual year, 7.9 violent incidents and 20.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5.
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. Measured across the Durham Region (Oshawa/Whitby/Ajax) service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Beaverton
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Beaverton places 15th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
About the Ontario norm
Beaverton’s index of 45.8 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 42% for Beaverton (55% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Beaverton’s A− for safety
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: #234 of 862 in Ontario and #432 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 Beaverton, type by type
Break and enter and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 10.7 | 0.01 | 78% |
| Sexual violations against children | 118.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 92.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 68.3 | 0.09 | 41% |
| Robbery | 303 | 0.4 | 49% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 24 | 0.03 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 106.3 | 0.1 | 53% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,113.7 | 1.4 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 152.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1,359.7 | 1.7 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 256.3 | 0.3 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 7,521.7 | 9.5 | 24% |
| Mischief | 2,015.3 | 2.6 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 122.3 | 0.2 | 88% |
| Administration of justice violations | 5,130.7 | 6.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 249.3 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 551.7 | 0.7 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 813.3 | 1 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 153 | 0.2 | 18% |
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.
Beaverton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 47.2; 2025 was lightest, at 43.2. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Beaverton | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 47.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Beaverton, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area Beaverton is part of, 810,100 residents, recorded about 6,230 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 16,100 a year and other violations 7,580 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
By its index, Beaverton stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Mount Forest Ontario | 14,407 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Erin Ontario | 12,924 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Forest Ontario | 12,962 | 32.2 | 38.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | North Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 37.5 | 32.9 | A |
| 13 | Sainte-Marie Quebec | 13,873 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 14 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 15 | Beaverton Ontario | 13,710 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 16 | Brighton Ontario | 12,900 | 46.9 | 65.6 | B+ |
| 17 | Rosemère Quebec | 14,198 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 18 | Stratford Prince Edward Island | 13,152 | 50 | 78.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | 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 Beaverton in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Beaverton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverton | 13,710 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| Keswick (26 km) | 53,630 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Ramara (30 km) | 11,551 | 37.3 | 55.6 | A |
| Uxbridge (30 km) | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Beaverton. Ramara, 29.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 37.3 to 45.8. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Beaverton has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 26–30 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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.”
- A regional police service. Beaverton is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
Questions about safety in Beaverton
Is Beaverton safe?
The short answer is an index of 45.8 for Beaverton (2023–2025), built from 7.9 violent incidents and 20.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Beaverton?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 9.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.3) and fraud (4.6).
Is crime going up in Beaverton?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 8%, to 43.2 from 47.
How much of Beaverton’s crime do police solve?
About 42% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 55% of violent and 35% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Beaverton 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).