Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Glencoe records less crime per resident than 98% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 29 and other offences to 24.6, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 39% (the typical Canadian town its size: 34%). From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Glencoe reported put it at A+ for safety: #49 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 5.1 violent incidents and 10.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Middlesex detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Glencoe
Lower than most of Ontario
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Glencoe, 25.7. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Glencoe comes 2nd, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Glencoe moved from 28.6 to 23.5, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. 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 Glencoe’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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What police record in Glencoe, by type
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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7 | 0.2 | 81% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 40.3 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.1 | 93% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.3 | 1 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.7 | 0.4 | 2% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 116 | 2.8 | 15% |
| Mischief | 82.3 | 2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 53.7 | 1.3 | 69% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.2 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 10.7 | 0.3 | 78% |
| Impaired driving | 47.3 | 1.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5.7 | 0.1 | 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.
Glencoe is 2nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Glencoe Ontario | 6,468 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 3 | Charlemagne Quebec | 6,695 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Pontiac Quebec | 6,490 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Pointe-Calumet Quebec | 6,427 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| 6 | Lanark Highlands Ontario | 6,370 | 33.1 | 38.8 | A |
| 7 | Mildmay Ontario | 6,247 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| 8 | Tay Valley Ontario | 6,171 | 37.7 | 46.6 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Tweed Ontario | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Glencoe in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Glencoe’s index fell 18% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 28.6 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 23.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Glencoe | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 25.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 28.6 | 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 Glencoe, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 210 violent incidents a year in the 41,800-resident police area around Glencoe, 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 450 property crimes, plus 170 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 Glencoe
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glencoe | 6,468 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| Brooke-Alvinston (16 km) | 2,557 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| Dutton (19 km) | 4,686 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| West Lorne (20 km) | 5,566 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| Adelaide-Metcalfe (23 km) | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| Strathroy (25 km) | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Glencoe. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Glencoe has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 16–25 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A wider policing area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Glencoe’s are shared with its surroundings.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Glencoe
Is Glencoe safe?
Its police recorded 5.1 violent incidents and 10.7 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Glencoe a Crime Severity Index of 25.7. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Glencoe?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 3.3, theft under $5,000 at 2.8 and assault at 2.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Glencoe?
No: the index fell 18%, from 28.6 in 2023 to 23.5 in 2025.
How much of Glencoe’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 71% of violent crime and 24% of everything else, 39% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Glencoe 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).