Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Bridgenorth records less crime per resident than almost every Canadian town
Counting crime the police covering Bridgenorth reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #27 of 862 in Ontario. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 21.1 to 20.4. Behind the grade sit 3.4 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Violence accounts for an index of 23.1 and other offences for 20.7, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56.
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 Bridgenorth
Lower than most of Ontario
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 21.2 in Bridgenorth. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 53% of Bridgenorth’s crime, weighted by seriousness (87% of violent crime, 38% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Bridgenorth stands 2nd, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Bridgenorth’s two halves part ways: 23.1 for violence (typical 89.4) and 20.7 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
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 Bridgenorth’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: #27 of 862 in Ontario and #29 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.
Bridgenorth’s crime by kind
Mischief and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 0.9 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.3 | 0.8 | 55% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 0.5 | 24% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 58.7 | 3.3 | 23% |
| Mischief | 17.3 | 1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 18.7 | 1.1 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 22 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Bridgenorth comes 2nd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Bridgenorth Ontario | 20,628 | 21.2 | 23.1 | A+ |
| 3 | Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver British Columbia | 22,031 | 24.4 | 16.3 | A+ |
| 4 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 5 | South Frontenac Ontario | 21,599 | 27.1 | 32.9 | A+ |
| 6 | Petawawa Ontario | 19,606 | 29.3 | 42.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Loyalist Ontario | 19,761 | 35.7 | 52.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Kemptville Ontario | 19,733 | 37.9 | 52.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Tillsonburg Ontario | 21,450 | 54.1 | 63.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lloydminster (Part) Alberta | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | 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 Bridgenorth in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 59 violent incidents a year reached Bridgenorth’s police, 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 160 property crimes and 67 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Bridgenorth, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 22.1; 2025 was the lightest, at 20.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bridgenorth | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 22.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 21.1 | 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 Bridgenorth, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Bridgenorth
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgenorth | 20,628 | 21.2 | 23.1 | A+ |
| Curve Lake First Nation 35 | 1,428 | — | — | — |
| Peterborough | 97,834 | 71.7 | 89.4 | C+ |
| Douro-Dummer | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Bridgenorth. Closest is Douro-Dummer, 15.5 km away, at 14.9 to 21.2 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Bridgenorth
Is Bridgenorth safe?
Police-reported crime in Bridgenorth scores 21.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 3.4 violent incidents and 8.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 66, the median for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Bridgenorth?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 3.3, fraud at 2.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 1.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Bridgenorth?
Not much: the index went from 21.1 in 2023 to 20.4 in 2025.
How much of Bridgenorth’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 53% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 87% of violent and 38% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Bridgenorth 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).