Photo: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gravenhurst sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Weighing it all, Gravenhurst earns B− for safety (#519 of 862 in Ontario), with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 11.7 violent incidents and 22.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Within Ontario, half the towns score under 56.2. Still, the index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 65.4 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 66 for the typical Canadian 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 Gravenhurst
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Gravenhurst, yet 34% 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 ↓
Less severe than in 2023
From 77.9 in 2023 to 56.5 in 2025: that is Gravenhurst’s index, against 69.5 and 60 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
A high clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 50% of crime in Gravenhurst ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. Questions ↓
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Gravenhurst records 1.4 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Gravenhurst: B− 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.
Its place: #519 of 862 in Ontario and #1,018 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.
Year by year in Gravenhurst: down 27%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (77.9); 2025 was the lightest, at 56.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Gravenhurst | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 61.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 77.9 | 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 Gravenhurst, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Gravenhurst’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Gravenhurst runs highest on sexual assault (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.8), drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.8) and break and enter (2.8 per 1,000 against 2.2). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 39.7 | 2.8 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 1 | 42% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.9 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 132 | 9.2 | 26% |
| Mischief | 47.3 | 3.3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.5 | 60% |
| Administration of justice violations | 75.3 | 5.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.5 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 21 | 1.5 | 81% |
| Impaired driving | 23 | 1.6 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.07 | — |
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.
By its index, Gravenhurst stands 27th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| 3 | Rockwood Ontario | 14,870 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Mount Forest Ontario | 14,407 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Gaspé Quebec | 15,479 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
| 25 | Carleton Place Ontario | 14,837 | 61.2 | 94.7 | B− |
| 26 | Lacombe Alberta | 14,733 | 61.7 | 47.6 | B− |
| 27 | Gravenhurst Ontario | 14,576 | 65.4 | 90.3 | B− |
| 28 | Colchester County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 14,211 | 72.9 | 100.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Mont-Laurier Quebec | 14,598 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 30 | Beauharnois Quebec | 15,285 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Gravenhurst in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Gravenhurst’s police: about 170 violent incidents a year over 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 330 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.
Crime in the places around Gravenhurst
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravenhurst | 14,576 | 65.4 | 90.3 | B− |
| Bracebridge (16 km) | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| Muskoka Lakes (25 km) | 8,463 | 43.4 | 53.1 | A− |
| Severn (28 km) | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| Chippewas of Rama First Nation (29 km) | 1,149 | 193.2 | 255.2 | D |
Gravenhurst sits above 3 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. Bracebridge, 15.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 46.7 to 65.4.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Gravenhurst with figures are 16–29 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. 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.
Questions about safety in Gravenhurst
Is Gravenhurst safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Gravenhurst comes to 65.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.7 violent incidents and 22.9 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Gravenhurst?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (9.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.2, and assault, at 5.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Gravenhurst?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 27%, to 56.5 from 77.9.
How much of Gravenhurst’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 50% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 67% of violent crime and 39% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
They are Gravenhurst’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).