Photo: Huntsville Ontario · CC BY 2.0Huntsville sees less crime per resident than 72% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 45.4 in 2023 to 40.4 by 2025. Split in two, the index gives 68.1 for violence and 40.7 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Huntsville reported put it at B+ for safety: #263 of 862 in Ontario. Police counts work out at 9.8 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.0 and 30.5.
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 Huntsville
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Huntsville (73% violent, 29% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Huntsville is 19th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Much like Ontario’s towns
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Huntsville scores 48.2. 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: B+ for Huntsville
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: #263 of 862 in Ontario and #482 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.
Crime in Huntsville, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Huntsville runs highest on sexual assault (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.8). 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 | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.2 | 75% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33.3 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 0.6 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14.3 | 0.6 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 166 | 7.1 | 26% |
| Mischief | 89.7 | 3.8 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.4 | 37% |
| Administration of justice violations | 90 | 3.8 | 77% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14 | 0.6 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 0.8 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 35.3 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Huntsville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (58.9) and 2025 the trough (40.4). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Huntsville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 58.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 45.4 | 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 Huntsville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Police in Huntsville recorded about 230 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 450 a year and other violations 210 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
By its index, Huntsville stands 19th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 4 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 17 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 18 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 19 | Huntsville Ontario | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | B+ |
| 20 | Colwood British Columbia | 22,794 | 49.8 | 63.6 | B+ |
| 21 | Saint-Lambert Quebec | 23,355 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 22 | Port Colborne Ontario | 21,921 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Huntsville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Huntsville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | B+ |
| Lake of Bays (15 km) | 4,105 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Perry (24 km) | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Kearney (31 km) | 1,055 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Bracebridge (31 km) | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| Armour (32 km) | 1,698 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
Huntsville has the highest index of the places around it. Just 15 km away, Lake of Bays comes to 32.8, against 48.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Huntsville has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 15–32 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Huntsville
Is Huntsville safe?
Statistics Canada puts Huntsville at 48.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 9.8 and property crimes at 19.2 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Huntsville?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (7.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6, and fraud, at 5.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Huntsville?
It went down 11% between 2023 and 2025, from 45.4 to 40.4.
How much of Huntsville’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 47% of crime (73% of violent crime, 29% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Huntsville and nowhere else.
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).