Photo: XeresNelro · CC BY-SA 4.0Bracebridge has less crime per resident than three in four Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 46.7, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 66 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, on the record of crime the police covering Bracebridge reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety: #234 of 862 in Ontario. Police counts work out at 8.8 violent incidents and 16.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 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.
What stands out about safety in Bracebridge
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 52% for Bracebridge (75% violent, 33% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Bracebridge places 15th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Much like Ontario’s towns
Bracebridge’s index of 46.7 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Bracebridge stood at 38.2, by 2025 at 53.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. 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 Bracebridge
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.
In Bracebridge, up 39% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (53.2) and 2023 least (38.2). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bracebridge | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 48.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 38.2 | 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 Bracebridge, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Bracebridge, type by type
Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.7 | 0.4 | 74% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 19.7 | 1.1 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9 | 0.5 | 41% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 96.3 | 5.2 | 17% |
| Mischief | 63.3 | 3.4 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.3 | 33% |
| Administration of justice violations | 165.7 | 8.9 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 51% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.5 | 67% |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
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.
Bracebridge’s police: about 160 violent incidents a year over 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.
And about 310 property crimes, plus 240 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
By its index, Bracebridge stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Petawawa Ontario | 19,606 | 29.3 | 42.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Port Hope Ontario | 18,446 | 31.2 | 36.4 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Loyalist Ontario | 19,761 | 35.7 | 52.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Kemptville Ontario | 19,733 | 37.9 | 52.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Saint-Colomban Quebec | 19,080 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 13 | Sainte-Catherine Quebec | 17,782 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 14 | Esquimalt British Columbia | 19,512 | 43 | 65.7 | A− |
| 15 | Bracebridge Ontario | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| 16 | Mitchell Manitoba | 19,950 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| 17 | Port Elgin Ontario | 18,167 | 50.1 | 68.5 | B+ |
| 18 | Canmore Alberta | 17,341 | 50.1 | 41.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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 Bracebridge in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Bracebridge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracebridge | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| Gravenhurst (16 km) | 14,576 | 65.4 | 90.3 | B− |
| Muskoka Lakes (21 km) | 8,463 | 43.4 | 53.1 | A− |
| Huntsville (31 km) | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | B+ |
| Lake of Bays (35 km) | 4,105 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Georgian Bay (40 km) | 3,798 | 43.4 | 53.1 | A− |
3 of the 5 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Bracebridge. The nearest of them, Muskoka Lakes (21.1 km away), scores 43.4 against 46.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Bracebridge with figures are 16–40 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Bracebridge
Is Bracebridge safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 46.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Bracebridge stands, with 8.8 violent and 16.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Bracebridge?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 10.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (5.7) and theft under $5,000 (5.2).
Is crime going up in Bracebridge?
Up 39%: 38.2 in 2023, 53.2 in 2025.
How much of Bracebridge’s crime do police solve?
52%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 75% and non-violent crime at 33%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Bracebridge’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).