Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0Frontenac Islands records more crime per resident than 65% of Canadian towns
In a usual year, 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Even so, the grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Frontenac Islands reported from 2023 to 2025. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 78.4 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Frontenac (Sharbot Lake) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Frontenac Islands
Easing since 2023
Frontenac Islands’s index went from 112 in 2023 to 61.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Frontenac Islands (85% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Frontenac Islands’s index of 78.4 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. 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.
Frontenac Islands: C+ for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Frontenac Islands: down 45%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (112); the low point came in 2025, at 61.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Frontenac Islands | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 112 | 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 Frontenac Islands, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Frontenac Islands, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Frontenac Islands runs highest on break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.5). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 4.4 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 5 | 21% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 3.3 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 1.4 | 64% |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 3.3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.7 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 21 | 2.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3.3 | 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.
7,860 residents, about 91 violent incidents a year: the police area Frontenac Islands 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.
Property crime adds about 170 a year and other violations 92 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Frontenac Islands
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontenac Islands | 1,963 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Kingston (15 km) | 149,527 | 73.9 | 72.6 | C+ |
| Gananoque (20 km) | 5,568 | 47.6 | 61.3 | B+ |
| Loyalist (27 km) | 19,761 | 35.7 | 52.3 | A |
| South Frontenac (30 km) | 21,599 | 27.1 | 32.9 | A+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Frontenac Islands. Closest is Kingston, 15 km away, at 73.9 to 78.4 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 15–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Frontenac Islands.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Frontenac Islands is one part.
- 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.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Frontenac Islands
Is Frontenac Islands safe?
Police-reported crime in Frontenac Islands scores 78.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Frontenac Islands?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (5.1) and fraud (5.1).
Is crime going up in Frontenac Islands?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 45%, to 61.2 from 112.
How much of Frontenac Islands’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 85% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 54% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Frontenac Islands 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).