Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Central Frontenac records more crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 78.4 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, for comparison, the middle Ontario town comes to 56.2. Measured on crime the police covering Central Frontenac reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+: #748 of 862 in Ontario. Year on year, 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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 published for the Frontenac (Sharbot Lake) detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Central Frontenac
Visitors count, residents divide
With 40% of its homes not lived in all year, Central Frontenac counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Less severe than in 2023
From 112 in 2023 to 61.2 in 2025: that is Central Frontenac’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 54% of crime in Central Frontenac ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 85% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Central Frontenac places 31st from the lowest index. 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 Central Frontenac’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: #748 of 862 in Ontario and #1,604 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, Central Frontenac’s index dropped 45%
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (112); 2025 was the lightest, at 61.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Central Frontenac | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 62.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 112 | 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 Central Frontenac, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Central Frontenac’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Central Frontenac runs highest on break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.8) and sexual assault (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.9). 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 | 0.09 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 4.4 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 5 | 21% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 3.3 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 1.4 | 64% |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 3.3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.7 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 21 | 2.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3.3 | 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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Central Frontenac stands 31st of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood Ontario | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Stirling Ontario | 5,489 | 30.8 | 33.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Southwold Ontario | 5,473 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Centre Hastings Ontario | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 28 | Inverness Nova Scotia | 5,138 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 29 | Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Quebec | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 30 | Coverdale New Brunswick | 5,167 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 31 | Central Frontenac Ontario | 5,348 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| 32 | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Quebec | 5,393 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 33 | Montréal-Ouest Quebec | 5,197 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 34 | Espanola Ontario | 5,504 | 90.6 | 123.8 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Oliver British Columbia | 5,262 | 132.5 | 95.2 | 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 Central Frontenac in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
7,860 residents, about 91 violent incidents a year: the police area Central Frontenac belongs to, 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 170 property crimes and 92 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 the places around Central Frontenac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Frontenac | 5,348 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| North Frontenac (27 km) | 2,515 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Tay Valley (31 km) | 6,171 | 37.7 | 46.6 | A |
| Addington Highlands (34 km) | 2,827 | 84.5 | 105.8 | C |
| South Frontenac (37 km) | 21,599 | 27.1 | 32.9 | A+ |
| Stone Mills (38 km) | 8,523 | 28.2 | 33.5 | A+ |
Central Frontenac sits above 3 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. Tay Valley, 31.2 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 37.7 to 78.4. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 27–38 km from Central Frontenac.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Central Frontenac is one part.
Questions about safety in Central Frontenac
Is Central Frontenac safe?
Central Frontenac’s Crime Severity Index is 78.4 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Central Frontenac?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (5.1) and fraud (5.1).
Is crime going up in Central Frontenac?
The reverse: 112 in 2023 came down to 61.2 by 2025, 45% lower.
How much of Central Frontenac’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 54%: 85% for violent crime and 34% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Central Frontenac 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).