Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few Canadian towns record less crime per resident than Beckwith
Split in two, the index gives 25.5 for violence and 18.7 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). Counting crime the police covering Beckwith reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #1 of 862 in Ontario. Annual rates stand at 3.8 violent incidents and 8.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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.
What stands out about safety in Beckwith
Below Ontario’s typical town
Beckwith’s index of 20.5 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Beckwith places 1st from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 18.4 in 2023 to 21.6 in 2025: that is Beckwith’s index, against 69.5 and 60 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: A+ for Beckwith
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: #1 of 862 in Ontario and #1 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 Beckwith, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 6.3 | 0.6 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 8.7 | 0.9 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 16 | 1.6 | 11% |
| Mischief | 12.7 | 1.3 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 10 | 1 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 8 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Beckwith is 1st of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| 2 | Stanley Manitoba | 9,929 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| 3 | Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury Quebec | 10,147 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Quebec | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Palmerston Ontario | 10,029 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 6 | Thamesford Ontario | 9,755 | 30.7 | 22.5 | A+ |
| 7 | Malahide Ontario | 9,995 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 8 | Mono Ontario | 10,036 | 34.9 | 55.4 | A |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Wheatland County Alberta | 10,150 | 298.8 | 486.4 | 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 Beckwith in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Beckwith’s index rose 18% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (21.6) and 2023 the trough (18.4). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Beckwith | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21.6 | 60 |
| 2024 | 21.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 18.4 | 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 Beckwith, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 38 violent incidents a year on Beckwith’s police records (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 85 a year and other violations 28 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Beckwith
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckwith | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| Carleton Place | 14,837 | 61.2 | 94.7 | B− |
| Almonte | 16,073 | 28.8 | 36.6 | A+ |
| Corkery | 3,822 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Munster - Ashton | 6,372 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Drummond/North Elmsley | 8,817 | 28.8 | 34.8 | A+ |
Beckwith has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. 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.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Beckwith
Is Beckwith safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Beckwith comes to 20.5. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 3.8 violent incidents and 8.5 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the typical index is 66.
What is the most common crime in Beckwith?
Most often it is fraud: 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 1.6 and assault at 1.6.
Is crime going up in Beckwith?
It went up 18% between 2023 and 2025, from 18.4 to 21.6.
How much of Beckwith’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 67% of violent crime and 19% of everything else, 36% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Beckwith and nowhere else.
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).