Photo: DiscoverEganville · CC0Eganville records less crime per resident than 87% of Canadian towns
The grade is A, built on crime the police covering Eganville reported from 2023 to 2025: #182 of 862 in Ontario. Violence accounts for an index of 53.5 and other offences for 33, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8. Year on year, 9.3 violent incidents and 14.2 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.
What stands out about safety in Eganville
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Eganville stands 6th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Under the Ontario norm
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 38.6 in Eganville. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Eganville (76% violent, 28% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. 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 Eganville’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: #182 of 862 in Ontario and #262 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.
Crime in Eganville, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Eganville runs highest on sexual assault (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.9). Assault 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 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 4.3 | 1 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.7 | 1.1 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 14.7 | 3.5 | 12% |
| Mischief | 18 | 4.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 22.7 | 5.3 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Drug violations | 3 | 0.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 7 | 1.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Eganville places 6th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 4,389 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Montague Ontario | 4,414 | 30.8 | 39.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 4,309 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| 4 | Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 4,209 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| 5 | Simonds New Brunswick | 4,263 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| 6 | Eganville Ontario | 4,326 | 38.6 | 53.5 | A |
| 7 | Deep River Ontario | 4,353 | 39.3 | 56 | A |
| 8 | La Pocatière Quebec | 4,206 | 42.5 | 72 | A− |
| 9 | Beaupré Quebec | 4,314 | 42.7 | 62.9 | A− |
| 10 | Highlands East Ontario | 4,372 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Prescott Ontario | 4,342 | 111.5 | 167.1 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Red Lake Ontario | 4,285 | 119.1 | 253 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Level Alberta | 4,390 | 324 | 498.7 | 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 Eganville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Eganville’s police: about 39 violent incidents a year over 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 60 property crimes and 41 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Three years of Eganville’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 48.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 27.1 in 2025. 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 | Eganville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 48.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 40.1 | 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 Eganville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Eganville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eganville | 4,326 | 38.6 | 53.5 | A |
| North Algona Wilberforce (11 km) | 3,290 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| Admaston/Bromley (23 km) | 3,086 | 33.5 | 57.5 | A |
| Whitewater Region (30 km) | 7,899 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| Laurentian Valley (31 km) | 9,714 | 36.3 | 44.5 | A |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards (32 km) | 2,505 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
3 of the 5 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Eganville. Just 22.7 km away, Admaston/Bromley comes to 33.5, against 38.6.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 11–32 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Eganville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Small numbers. About 4,326 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Eganville
Is Eganville safe?
Police-reported crime in Eganville scores 38.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.3 violent incidents and 14.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Eganville?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 6.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (4.5) and mischief (4.3).
Is crime going up in Eganville?
It went down 32% between 2023 and 2025, from 40.1 to 27.1. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Eganville’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 47% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 76% of violent and 28% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Eganville and nowhere else.
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).