Photo: P199 · CC BY 2.5Deseronto has more crime per resident than 89% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 280.3 for violence and 73.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Deseronto reported put it at D for safety. Year on year, 27.0 violent incidents and 28.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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: the Lennox and Addington County (Deseronto) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Deseronto
Heavier on violence
Deseronto’s index splits into violent crime, 280.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 73.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 131.9 in Deseronto. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Deseronto’s police clear 67%, 91% of violent crime and 33% of the rest. Questions ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Deseronto records 8.7 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The D for Deseronto, and how it is built
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.
What police record in Deseronto, by type
Against the typical town its size, Deseronto runs highest on mischief (8.7 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (12.6 per 1,000 against 6.7) and fraud (8 per 1,000 against 5.1). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 1.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5.3 | 2.8 | 43% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3 | 1.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2 | 1.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12.3 | 6.5 | 19% |
| Mischief | 16.3 | 8.7 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 13.7 | 7.3 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 2 | 1.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 1.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 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.
1,840 residents, about 51 violent incidents a year: the police area Deseronto 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.
And about 54 property crimes, plus 28 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Three years of Deseronto’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 181.5; the lightest was 2024, at 95.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Deseronto | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 95.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 181.5 | 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 Deseronto, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Deseronto
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deseronto | 1,844 | 131.9 | 280.3 | D |
| Greater Napanee | 18,016 | 73.9 | 103.7 | C+ |
| Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory | 3,028 | — | — | — |
| Tyendinaga | 5,005 | 131.9 | 280.3 | D |
Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- A small police area. With roughly 1,844 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Deseronto is one part.
Questions about safety in Deseronto
Is Deseronto safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 131.9 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Deseronto stands, with 27 violent and 28.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Deseronto?
Police record assault most, 12.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (10.3) and mischief (8.7).
Is crime going up in Deseronto?
It went down 34% between 2023 and 2025, from 181.5 to 119. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Deseronto’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 67% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 91% of violent crime and 33% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Deseronto and everywhere else it polices.
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).