Photo: P199 · Public domainFaraday sees less crime per resident than three in five Canadian towns
A Safety Grade of B follows from crime the police covering Faraday reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 12.5 violent incidents and 15.9 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 59.6 and its non-violent half to 53.9, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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 for the Bancroft detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Faraday
Visitors count, residents divide
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Faraday, yet 42% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Faraday’s police clear 54%, 82% of violent crime and 41% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like Ontario’s towns
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Faraday, 55.2. 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 B for Faraday, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 9 km from Faraday, since none reports under the town’s name.
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 Faraday, by type
Mischief 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 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 27.7 | 2.5 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 1.4 | 38% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 33 | 2.9 | 13% |
| Mischief | 33 | 2.9 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11.3 | 1 | 68% |
| Administration of justice violations | 52.3 | 4.7 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.7 | 0.5 | 40% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 1.8 | 85% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 3.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
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 closest to Faraday, 11,400 residents, recorded about 140 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.
Property crime adds about 180 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
In Faraday, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 62.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 51.3. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Faraday | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.5 | 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 Faraday, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Faraday
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faraday | 1,820 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| Bancroft | 4,331 | 121.5 | 153.2 | D |
| Hastings Highlands | 4,957 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Faraday
Is Faraday safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Faraday’s Crime Severity Index stands at 55.2 for 2023–2025. Its police record 12.5 violent incidents and 15.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Faraday?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (6.6 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 6, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 5.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Faraday?
Not much: the index went from 51.5 in 2023 to 51.3 in 2025.
How much of Faraday’s crime do police solve?
About 54% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 82% of violent and 41% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Faraday 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).