Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0Campbellford records less crime per resident than 90% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 48.3 and 32.8. Scored on crime the police covering Campbellford reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety: #162 of 862 in Ontario. Add to that, in a usual year, 7.8 violent incidents and 14.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5. All 3 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.
What stands out about safety in Campbellford
Under the Ontario norm
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 37 in Campbellford. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Campbellford stands 10th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 45% of Campbellford’s crime, weighted by seriousness (68% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Campbellford’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: #162 of 862 in Ontario and #213 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.
Campbellford’s crime by kind
Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.3 | 1.4 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.3 | 0.9 | 35% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.3 | 26% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 4.9 | 28% |
| Mischief | 40 | 2.7 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 1.8 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6 | 0.4 | 45% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.5 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 15.3 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
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.
About 120 violent incidents a year reached Campbellford’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 220 property crimes and 81 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, Campbellford places 10th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Rockwood Ontario | 14,870 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Mount Forest Ontario | 14,407 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Central Elgin Ontario | 15,230 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Warman Saskatchewan | 14,245 | 32.3 | 41.7 | A |
| 8 | Long Sault Ontario | 14,602 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 9 | South Glengarry Ontario | 14,355 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 10 | Campbellford Ontario | 15,103 | 37 | 48.3 | A |
| 11 | Prévost Quebec | 14,275 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 12 | Pincourt Quebec | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 13 | Comox British Columbia | 15,884 | 40.6 | 39.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Campbellford in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in Campbellford: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (37.4) and 2023 the trough (36.3). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Campbellford | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 37.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 36.3 | 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 Campbellford, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Campbellford
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Campbellford. Closest is Norwood, 14.1 km away, at 25.2 to 37 here.
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. 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 Campbellford
Is Campbellford safe?
Campbellford measures 37 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 7.8 violent incidents and 14.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Campbellford?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 4.9, fraud at 4.5 and assault at 4.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Campbellford?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 36.3 to 37.4.
How much of Campbellford’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 45% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 68% of violent and 31% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Campbellford alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).