Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Greater Napanee has more crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Greater Napanee reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C+ for safety: #734 of 862 in Ontario. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. In a usual year, 18.7 violent incidents and 26.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 103.7 and 62.7.
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 Greater Napanee
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Greater Napanee records 1.6 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 ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 51% of crime in Greater Napanee ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 70% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Greater Napanee stands 25th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Heavier than Ontario’s middle
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 73.9 in Greater Napanee. 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 grade: C+ for Greater Napanee
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: #734 of 862 in Ontario and #1,555 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.
Which crimes make up Greater Napanee’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Greater Napanee runs highest on sexual assault (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.8), assault (9.5 per 1,000 against 6.6) and mischief (4.7 per 1,000 against 3.7). Motor vehicle theft sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.6 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 5.7 | 0.3 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Breaking and entering | 45.3 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 17.7 | 1 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 19.3 | 1.1 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 185.7 | 10.4 | 24% |
| Mischief | 84.7 | 4.7 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 15 | 0.8 | 49% |
| Administration of justice violations | 196.7 | 11 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14 | 0.8 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 1 | 72% |
| Impaired driving | 28.3 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 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.
Year by year in Greater Napanee: down 7%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 82; 2025 was lightest, at 67.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Greater Napanee | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 82 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 72.4 | 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 Greater Napanee, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Greater Napanee stands 25th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oak Bay British Columbia | 18,626 | 26.7 | 23.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Petawawa Ontario | 19,606 | 29.3 | 42.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Port Hope Ontario | 18,446 | 31.2 | 36.4 | A |
| 5 | Stayner Ontario | 16,571 | 31.5 | 35.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Bracebridge Ontario | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Lake Country British Columbia | 17,637 | 67.1 | 59.9 | B− |
| 23 | Saint-Charles-Borromée Quebec | 16,904 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 24 | Cowansville Quebec | 17,269 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 25 | Greater Napanee Ontario | 18,016 | 73.9 | 103.7 | C+ |
| 26 | Beaconsfield Quebec | 19,430 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 27 | Sooke British Columbia | 17,248 | 81.4 | 79.8 | C |
| 28 | Midland Ontario | 19,305 | 81.8 | 97.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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 Napanee in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Greater Napanee’s police: about 330 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 470 a year and other violations 330 (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 Greater Napanee
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Napanee | 18,016 | 73.9 | 103.7 | C+ |
| Deseronto | 1,844 | 131.9 | 280.3 | D |
| Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory | 3,028 | — | — | — |
| Tyendinaga | 5,005 | 131.9 | 280.3 | D |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Greater Napanee.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Greater Napanee
Is Greater Napanee safe?
The short answer is an index of 73.9 for Greater Napanee (2023–2025), built from 18.7 violent incidents and 26.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Greater Napanee?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 14.5, theft under $5,000 at 10.4 and assault at 9.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Greater Napanee?
The reverse: 72.4 in 2023 came down to 67.4 by 2025, 7% lower.
How much of Greater Napanee’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 70% of violent crime and 39% of everything else, 51% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
They are Greater Napanee’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).