Photo: Jkentrandall · CC BY-SA 4.0Carlow/Mayo records less crime per resident than 60% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 59.6 and other offences to 53.9, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. That puts it at B for safety, judged on crime the police covering Carlow/Mayo reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 12.5 violent incidents and 15.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Bancroft detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Carlow/Mayo
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Seasonal homes make up about 37% of Carlow/Mayo’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Carlow/Mayo (82% violent, 41% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Carlow/Mayo scores 55.2. 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.
What’s behind Carlow/Mayo’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Carlow/Mayo itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 19 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 nearest Carlow/Mayo, 11,400 residents: around 140 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 180 property crimes and 160 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in Carlow/Mayo, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 27.7 | 2.5 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 1.4 | 38% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 33 | 2.9 | 13% |
| Mischief | 33 | 2.9 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 1 | 68% |
| Administration of justice violations | 52.3 | 4.7 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.5 | 40% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 1.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 3.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
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.
In Carlow/Mayo, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 62.8, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 51.3. 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 | Carlow/Mayo | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.5 | 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 Carlow/Mayo, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Carlow/Mayo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow/Mayo | 1,048 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| Hastings Highlands | 4,957 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan | 1,656 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| Bancroft | 4,331 | 121.5 | 153.2 | D |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Carlow/Mayo. Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan, 16.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 41.5 to 55.2. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Carlow/Mayo
Is Carlow/Mayo safe?
Carlow/Mayo measures 55.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.5 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Carlow/Mayo?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 6.6, assault at 6 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Carlow/Mayo?
Not much: the index went from 51.5 in 2023 to 51.3 in 2025.
How much of Carlow/Mayo’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 54% of crime (82% of violent crime, 41% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Carlow/Mayo together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).