Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Chisholm sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Chisholm’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 63.1 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Even so, its 3 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. The yearly rates were 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the North Bay detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Chisholm
Up since 2023
From 37.9 in 2023 to 99.7 in 2025: that is Chisholm’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 53% of crime in Chisholm ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 107.2 on Chisholm’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 46 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 63.1 in Chisholm. 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 Chisholm
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 27 km from Chisholm, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
In Chisholm, up 163% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (99.7); 2023 was the low point, at 37.9. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Chisholm | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.9 | 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 Chisholm, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Chisholm’s figures
Assault sits 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 people or more.
The detachment nearest Chisholm, 6,910 residents: around 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.
And about 90 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Chisholm
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chisholm | 1,593 | 63.1 | 107.2 | B− |
| Powassan | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| Callander | 4,021 | 63.1 | 107.2 | B− |
| Bonfield | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| East Ferris | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Chisholm. Powassan, 13.3 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 15 to 63.1. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Chisholm
Is Chisholm safe?
Chisholm scores 63.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Chisholm?
Police record Criminal Code traffic offences most, 9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.6) and fraud (5.3).
Is crime going up in Chisholm?
Yes: the index rose 163%, from 37.9 in 2023 to 99.7 in 2025.
How much of Chisholm’s crime do police solve?
53%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 44%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Chisholm 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).