Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime in Callander sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 63.1 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Add to that, the local count comes to 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Callander at B− (#515 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns. 3 of the 4 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the North Bay detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Callander
More severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Callander stood at 37.9, by 2025 at 99.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 53% for Callander (67% violent, 44% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Callander scores 107.2 for violence and 46 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Callander stands 20th, the lowest first. 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: B− for Callander
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 13 km from Callander, not to the town.
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: #515 of 862 in Ontario and #951 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, Callander’s index climbed 163%
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (99.7); 2023 was the low point, at 37.9. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Callander | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 37.9 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Callander, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Callander, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 10.3 | 1.5 | 7% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.7 | 1.1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15.3 | 2.3 | 13% |
| Mischief | 15 | 2.2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 1 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.3 | 3.4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.7 | — |
| Drug violations | 8 | 1.2 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 6.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
The detachment closest to Callander, 6,910 residents, recorded about 69 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 90 property crimes and 110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Among 40 towns its size, Callander places 20th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-Etchemin Quebec | 4,089 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Lake of Bays Ontario | 4,105 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Morris-Turnberry Ontario | 4,028 | 35 | 39.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Barry's Bay Ontario | 4,151 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Perth South Ontario | 4,055 | 52.5 | 75.2 | B+ |
| 17 | Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs Quebec | 4,080 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 18 | Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard Quebec | 3,974 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 19 | Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 4,153 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| 20 | Callander Ontario | 4,021 | 63.1 | 107.2 | B− |
| 21 | Electoral Area B, Cariboo British Columbia | 4,169 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| 22 | North Norfolk Manitoba | 4,084 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| 23 | Electoral Area F, East Kootenay British Columbia | 3,893 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Swan River Manitoba | 4,048 | 435.7 | 403.3 | 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 Callander in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Callander
3 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Callander. The nearest of them, East Ferris (8.4 km away), scores 17.7 against 63.1. The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- 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. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Callander
Is Callander safe?
Callander’s Crime Severity Index is 63.1 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Callander?
Top of the list is Criminal Code traffic offences (9 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.6, and fraud, at 5.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Callander?
It has: 37.9 in 2023 became 99.7 by 2025, a rise of 163%.
How much of Callander’s crime do police solve?
53%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 44%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Callander and everywhere else it polices.
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).