Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Chatsworth has less crime per resident than 94% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 38.1 and other offences for 29.8, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8. Year on year, 5.7 violent incidents and 12.0 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Add to that, the grade is A, built on crime the police covering Chatsworth reported from 2023 to 2025: #100 of 862 in Ontario.
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 Chatsworth
Under the Ontario norm
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 32 in Chatsworth. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Chatsworth stands 6th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 46% of crime in Chatsworth ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 90% of violent crime and 25% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. 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 Chatsworth’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: #100 of 862 in Ontario and #134 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.
Which crimes make up Chatsworth’s figures
Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 11.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7 | 0.9 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21 | 2.7 | 19% |
| Mischief | 15.3 | 2 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.3 | 2.2 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 5.3 | 0.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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, Chatsworth stands 6th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otonabee-South Monaghan Ontario | 8,084 | 26 | 27.2 | A+ |
| 2 | Whitewater Region Ontario | 7,899 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Taber Alberta | 8,009 | 29.4 | 30.1 | A+ |
| 4 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 30.1 | 37.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Bayham Ontario | 7,935 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 6 | Chatsworth Ontario | 7,770 | 32 | 38.1 | A |
| 7 | Chesley Ontario | 7,639 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| 8 | Augusta Ontario | 7,767 | 34 | 40.2 | A |
| 9 | North Stormont Ontario | 7,946 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Minden Hills Ontario | 7,841 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Cardinal Ontario | 7,952 | 51.4 | 74.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Drayton Valley Alberta | 8,047 | 152.4 | 156.3 | 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 Chatsworth in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 44 violent incidents a year reached Chatsworth’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.
And about 92 property crimes, plus 36 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Chatsworth’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (35.8) and 2025 the trough (29.8). The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Chatsworth | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29.8 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 35.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 30.4 | 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 Chatsworth, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Chatsworth
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatsworth | 7,770 | 32 | 38.1 | A |
| Owen Sound (21 km) | 24,075 | 110 | 154.9 | C− |
| Chesley (24 km) | 7,639 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| Durham (24 km) | 14,355 | 51.9 | 63.2 | B+ |
| Meaford (27 km) | 12,652 | 42.7 | 45.3 | A− |
| Georgian Bluffs (27 km) | 12,061 | 29.2 | 35.4 | A+ |
Chatsworth sits above 1 of the 5 neighbours with figures of their own. Closest is Georgian Bluffs, 27.5 km away, at 29.2 to 32 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 21–27 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Chatsworth.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Chatsworth
Is Chatsworth safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Chatsworth scores 32 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 5.7 violent and 12 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Chatsworth?
Most often it is fraud: 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 3.1 and theft under $5,000 at 2.7.
Is crime going up in Chatsworth?
The index stayed close to where it was, 30.4 in 2023 and 29.8 in 2025.
How much of Chatsworth’s crime do police solve?
46%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 90% and non-violent crime at 25%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Chatsworth’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).