Photo: Renard Franco · CC0Embrun sees less crime per resident than 98% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 39.7 for violence and 22 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 39% (the typical Canadian town its size: 33%). Add to that, on crime the police covering Embrun reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #49 of 862 in Ontario. Recorded violent incidents ran at 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 10.3, against 12.0 and 30.5 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 Embrun
Below Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 26.9 in Embrun. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Embrun stands 4th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Embrun’s index went from 25.6 in 2023 to 32.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Embrun’s A+
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: #49 of 862 in Ontario and #54 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Embrun’s crime by kind
Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 19.3 | 0.7 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.07 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 0.8 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 0.3 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 72.7 | 2.6 | 25% |
| Mischief | 42 | 1.5 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 40.3 | 1.4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 0.3 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 20.7 | 0.7 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.3 | 0.08 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
In Embrun, up 28% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 32.9; the lightest was 2024, at 22.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Embrun | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32.9 | 60 |
| 2024 | 22.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 25.6 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Embrun, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Embrun places 4th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver British Columbia | 22,031 | 24.4 | 16.3 | A+ |
| 3 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 4 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 6 | South Frontenac Ontario | 21,599 | 27.1 | 32.9 | A+ |
| 7 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 8 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 18 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Embrun in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 150 violent incidents a year reached Embrun’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 290 property crimes, plus 95 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 Embrun
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embrun | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| Vars | 2,767 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Metcalfe | 5,434 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs | 3,536 | 54.7 | 66 | B+ |
| Casselman | 4,535 | 50.8 | 62.9 | B+ |
| Limoges | 15,122 | 53.9 | 62.3 | B |
| North Stormont | 7,946 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
The places around Embrun all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Embrun
Is Embrun safe?
Police-reported crime in Embrun scores 26.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 5.2 violent incidents and 10.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Embrun?
Most often it is fraud: 4.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 2.6 and assault at 2.3.
Is crime going up in Embrun?
Yes: the index rose 28%, from 25.6 in 2023 to 32.9 in 2025.
How much of Embrun’s crime do police solve?
About 39% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 65% of violent and 23% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Embrun alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).