Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Emo than in 70% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 69.4 and other offences for 41.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Its Safety Grade is B+, on crime the police covering Emo reported from 2023 to 2025. Even so, recorded violent incidents ran at 12.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 12.4, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Rainy River District detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Emo
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 65% for Emo (88% violent, 50% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Down since 2023
In 2023 the index in Emo stood at 47.7, by 2025 at 38. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Much like Ontario’s towns
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Emo scores 49.4. 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.
What sits behind Emo’s B+
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 Emo, down 20% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 62.5, with 2025 the lightest at 38. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Emo | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 47.7 | 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 Emo, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 93 violent incidents a year across the police area of 7,350 residents that includes Emo, 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 91 property crimes, plus 100 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 Emo, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 7 | 1 | 57% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 6 | 0.8 | 83% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 20.3 | 2.8 | 26% |
| Mischief | 21.3 | 2.9 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 24.7 | 3.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 16.3 | 2.2 | 45% |
| Impaired driving | 30.7 | 4.2 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
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.
Crime in the places around Emo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emo | 1,255 | 49.4 | 69.4 | B+ |
| Fort Frances (31 km) | 7,607 | 143.8 | 209.3 | D |
| Rainy River, Unorganized (52 km) | 1,498 | 49.4 | 69.4 | B+ |
| Machin (136 km) | 1,060 | 61.4 | 91 | B− |
| Kenora (137 km) | 15,892 | 127.1 | 186.8 | D |
| Kenora, Unorganized (143 km) | 7,877 | 73.9 | 96.2 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Emo. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Emo with figures are 31–143 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- A detachment’s area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Emo is one part.
Questions about safety in Emo
Is Emo safe?
Emo’s Crime Severity Index is 49.4 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.7 violent incidents and 12.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Emo?
Top of the list is assault (7.2 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5.6, and other Criminal Code offences, at 4.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Emo?
No: the index fell 20%, from 47.7 in 2023 to 38 in 2025.
How much of Emo’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 65% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 88% of violent and 50% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Emo and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).