Photo: Xynorath · CC BY-SA 3.0For crime severity, Brampton is much like the typical Canadian town its size
Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 75.6 and 48.9. Nobody publishes crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for Brampton alone, so this card uses the figure for the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area. The index rose from 52.2 in 2023 to 59.4 in 2025. Even so, each year brought 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 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 Brampton
Motor vehicle theft: high for a town its size
Brampton records 4.6 incidents of motor vehicle theft per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Close to Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Brampton scores 56.2. 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.
Before the grade: Brampton’s figures
No grade yet for this town: Canadian grades are set in a single national run that is still to come.
Crime Severity Index
Violent crime index
Non-violent crime index
Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, 2023–2025 means. City neighbourhoods count, each with its city’s figure; city totals and reserves don’t.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crime in Brampton, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Brampton runs highest on motor vehicle theft (4.6 per 1,000 against 1.7), robbery (0.7 per 1,000 against 0.4) and drug offences (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.9). Fraud and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 19.7 | 0.01 | 70% |
| Sexual violations against children | 147.3 | 0.10 | 84% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 178.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 190.3 | 0.1 | 27% |
| Robbery | 1,134.7 | 0.7 | 33% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 93.7 | 0.06 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 204 | 0.1 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,733.3 | 1.8 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 581.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7,010.7 | 4.6 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 775.7 | 0.5 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 14,612 | 9.5 | 16% |
| Mischief | 3,778.7 | 2.5 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 570 | 0.4 | 55% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,542.3 | 1.7 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 396.7 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 2,093.7 | 1.4 | 44% |
| Impaired driving | 987.7 | 0.6 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 669 | 0.4 | 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 50,000 people or more.
Brampton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (59.4); 2023 was the low point, at 52.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brampton | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 57 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 52.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Brampton, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
1,542,400 residents, about 13,000 violent incidents a year: the police area Brampton belongs to, 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 34,700 property crimes, plus 7,950 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Brampton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brampton | 777,759 | 56.2 | 75.6 | — |
| Lakelands Village | 9,636 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| N-Section (bramalea) | 7,513 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Madoc | 13,160 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Centre | 17,851 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Bramalea Woods | 6,521 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Heart Lake South | 19,573 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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 wider service area. The service that polices Brampton reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
Questions about safety in Brampton
Is Brampton safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Brampton scores 56.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 8.5 violent and 22.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Brampton?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (9.5 per 1,000 residents a year); motor vehicle theft, at 4.6, and assault, at 4.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Brampton?
It went up 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 52.2 to 59.4.
How much of Brampton’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 33% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 54% of violent and 20% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Brampton and other places, so the figures are shared.
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). 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).