Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Haliburton Village than in 77% of Canadian towns
It grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Haliburton Village reported from 2023 to 2025: #223 of 862 in Ontario. Its police logs show 9.7 violent incidents and 16.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 49.5 for violence and 43.2 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 49.2 to 44.3.
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 Haliburton Highlands detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Haliburton Village
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Haliburton Village, yet 54% 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 ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Haliburton Village stands 15th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lower than most of Ontario
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 44.7 in Haliburton Village. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 46% for Haliburton Village (76% violent, 33% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Haliburton Village: A− 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: #223 of 862 in Ontario and #407 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.
Crime in Haliburton Village, type by type
Motor vehicle theft 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 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.10 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 48 | 2.3 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 31.3 | 1.5 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 103.7 | 5 | 19% |
| Mischief | 62 | 3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 12 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 82.3 | 3.9 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 12 | 0.6 | 89% |
| Impaired driving | 30 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.10 | — |
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.
Haliburton Village, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (49.2); 2024 was the lightest, at 40.7. 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 | Haliburton Village | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 40.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 49.2 | 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 Haliburton Village, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 200 violent incidents a year across the police area of 21,100 residents that includes Haliburton Village, 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 350 property crimes, plus 190 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Haliburton Village comes 15th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| 2 | Alnwick/Haldimand Ontario | 8,197 | 21.6 | 26.9 | A+ |
| 3 | Plattsville Ontario | 8,251 | 25.1 | 27.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Otonabee-South Monaghan Ontario | 8,084 | 26 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Rigaud Quebec | 8,187 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 13 | Coteau-du-Lac Quebec | 7,839 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 14 | Newell County Alberta | 7,846 | 40.4 | 25.8 | A− |
| 15 | Haliburton Village Ontario | 8,100 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| 16 | Minden Hills Ontario | 7,841 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| 17 | Cornwall Prince Edward Island | 7,920 | 46.9 | 58 | B+ |
| 18 | Aylmer Ontario | 8,371 | 49 | 63.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | 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 Haliburton Village in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Haliburton Village
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haliburton Village | 8,100 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Highlands East (18 km) | 4,372 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Algonquin Highlands (22 km) | 2,915 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
| Minden Hills (23 km) | 7,841 | 44.7 | 49.5 | A− |
3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 18–23 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Haliburton Village.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Haliburton Village’s are shared with its surroundings.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Haliburton Village
Is Haliburton Village safe?
Its police recorded 9.7 violent incidents and 16.7 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Haliburton Village a Crime Severity Index of 44.7. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Haliburton Village?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 5.1 and theft under $5,000 at 5.
Is crime going up in Haliburton Village?
The reverse: 49.2 in 2023 came down to 44.3 by 2025, 10% lower.
How much of Haliburton Village’s crime do police solve?
46%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 76% and non-violent crime at 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Haliburton Village 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).