Photo: P199 · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Horton than in 96% of Canadian towns
It grades A+ for safety on crime the police covering Horton reported from 2023 to 2025: #74 of 862 in Ontario. Split in two, the index gives 36.6 for violence and 26.4 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). Its police logs show 6.8 violent incidents and 10.1 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. None of the 6 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Renfrew detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Horton
Under the Ontario norm
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Horton scores 29.1. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Horton is 2nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 50% for Horton (77% violent, 35% 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.
What’s behind Horton’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 4 km from Horton, 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.
Crime in Horton, type 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.
Horton is 2nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| 2 | Horton Ontario | 3,550 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Shuniah Ontario | 3,458 | 29.8 | 60 | A+ |
| 4 | Wellington New Brunswick | 3,458 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
| 5 | Saint-Isidore Quebec | 3,550 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Melancthon Ontario | 3,581 | 68.8 | 125.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part Ontario | 3,606 | 97.4 | 171.6 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 Alberta | 3,592 | 495.1 | 602.4 | 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 Horton in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment nearest Horton, 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.
Property crime adds about 190 a year and other violations 120 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Horton: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 30.4 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 27.2 in 2024. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Horton | 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 Horton, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Horton
The places around Horton all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Horton
Is Horton safe?
Police-reported crime in Horton 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. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Horton?
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 Horton?
The index stayed close to where it was, 30.4 in 2023 and 29.7 in 2025.
How much of Horton’s crime do police solve?
50%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 77% and non-violent crime at 35%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Horton and everywhere else it polices.
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).