Photo: Qui1che · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Greater Madawaska runs lower than in 96% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Greater Madawaska reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #74 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 6.8 violent incidents and 10.1 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. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 36.6 and 26.4.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Renfrew detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Greater Madawaska
A busy place, counted per resident
With 40% of its homes not lived in all year, Greater Madawaska counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Below Ontario’s typical town
Greater Madawaska’s index of 29.1 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Greater Madawaska places 2nd from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Greater Madawaska’s police clear 50%, 77% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A+ for Greater Madawaska, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 21 km from Greater Madawaska, 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.
Its place: #74 of 862 in Ontario and #94 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 Greater Madawaska, by type
Assault 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 | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13.7 | 0.7 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.3 | 0.4 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.4 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 32.3 | 1.7 | 13% |
| Mischief | 42 | 2.2 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 39.7 | 2.1 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 0.5 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 10.3 | 0.6 | 84% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 1.9 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.1 | — |
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.
Greater Madawaska comes 2nd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 2 | Greater Madawaska Ontario | 3,234 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Coalhurst Alberta | 3,244 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| 4 | Hampton New Brunswick | 3,268 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| 5 | Chalk River Ontario | 3,147 | 38.6 | 59.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 7 | North Algona Wilberforce Ontario | 3,290 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | French River / Rivière des Français Ontario | 3,178 | 49.3 | 58.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Marathon Ontario | 3,223 | 74.7 | 120.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 38 | Enniskillen Ontario | 3,174 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Hay River Northwest Territories | 3,317 | 535.8 | 507.9 | 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 Greater Madawaska in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment nearest Greater Madawaska, 18,900 residents: around 130 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.
And about 190 property crimes, plus 120 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
In Greater Madawaska, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (30.4); 2024 was the lightest, at 27.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Greater Madawaska | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 27.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 30.4 | 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 Greater Madawaska, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Greater Madawaska
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Madawaska | 3,234 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| Admaston/Bromley (20 km) | 3,086 | 33.5 | 57.5 | A |
| Renfrew (21 km) | 8,721 | 91.6 | 165.9 | C |
| Horton (27 km) | 3,550 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| McNab/Braeside (27 km) | 8,340 | 52.1 | 81.8 | B+ |
The places around Greater Madawaska all score higher on the index. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 20–27 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Greater Madawaska.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Greater Madawaska
Is Greater Madawaska safe?
Police-reported crime in Greater Madawaska scores 29.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 6.8 violent incidents and 10.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Greater Madawaska?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 4.4, other Criminal Code offences at 3.2 and assault at 3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Greater Madawaska?
The index stayed close to where it was, 30.4 in 2023 and 29.7 in 2025.
How much of Greater Madawaska’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 50%: 77% for violent crime and 35% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Greater Madawaska 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).