Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Burk's Falls sees less crime per resident than nine in ten Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 34.7 and 32.3. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 41% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%). Graded on crime the police covering Burk's Falls reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A for safety. For every 1,000 residents, 5.4 violent incidents and 13.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Huntsville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Burk's Falls
Lower than most of Ontario
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Burk's Falls scores 32.8. 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.
The grade: A for Burk's Falls
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Burk's Falls itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 37 km away.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The detachment closest to Burk's Falls, 4,440 residents, recorded about 24 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.
Add about 59 property crimes and 36 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Three years of Burk's Falls’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 38, with 2025 the lightest at 27.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Burk's Falls | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 38 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Burk's Falls, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Burk's Falls, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5 | 1.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15 | 3.4 | 2% |
| Mischief | 12.3 | 2.8 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 4.7 | 1.1 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 4.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
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 2,500 people or more.
Crime in the places around Burk's Falls
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Read with care. About 4,442 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Burk's Falls
Is Burk's Falls safe?
Its police recorded 5.4 violent incidents and 13.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Burk's Falls a Crime Severity Index of 32.8. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Burk's Falls?
Most often it is Criminal Code traffic offences: 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 4.6 and theft under $5,000 at 3.4.
Is crime going up in Burk's Falls?
It went down 18% between 2023 and 2025, from 33 to 27.2. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Burk's Falls’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 41% of crime (73% of violent crime, 26% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Burk's Falls 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) · 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).