Photo: P199 · Public domainHuron Shores sees less crime per resident than 80% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 67.9 for violence and 34.2 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). In 2023 the index stood at 52.5; it fell to 45.4 in 2025. On top of that, its letter for safety is A−, worked out from crime the police covering Huron Shores reported over 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 8.5 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 East Algoma (Blind River/Thessalon) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Huron Shores
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Huron Shores’s police clear 49%, 60% of violent crime and 42% of the rest. Questions ↓
Below Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 43.6 in Huron Shores. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Huron Shores’s index splits into violent crime, 67.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 34.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Huron Shores’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Huron Shores itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 35 km away.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Huron Shores, 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 | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.7 | 1.9 | 34% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5.7 | 0.7 | 23% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23.7 | 2.9 | 10% |
| Mischief | 21 | 2.5 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.3 | 2.8 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 7.7 | 0.9 | 91% |
| Impaired driving | 20 | 2.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 people or more.
Huron Shores, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 52.5, and 2024 the lightest at 32.8. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Huron Shores | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 32.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 52.5 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Huron Shores, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 70 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Huron Shores (8,300 residents), 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.
Add about 96 property crimes and 71 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Huron Shores
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huron Shores | 2,030 | 43.6 | 67.9 | A− |
| Thessalon (16 km) | 1,363 | 55.2 | 97 | B |
| Blind River (32 km) | 3,692 | 77.7 | 114 | C+ |
| St. Joseph (55 km) | 1,560 | 302.3 | 509 | D− |
| Elliot Lake (55 km) | 12,317 | 86.6 | 123.3 | C |
| Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional (57 km) | 1,771 | 302.3 | 509 | D− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Huron Shores.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 16–57 km from Huron Shores.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Huron Shores
Is Huron Shores safe?
Police-reported crime in Huron Shores scores 43.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.5 violent incidents and 11.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Huron Shores?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 3.9, Criminal Code traffic offences at 3.5 and assault at 3.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Huron Shores?
The reverse: 52.5 in 2023 came down to 45.4 by 2025, 13% lower.
How much of Huron Shores’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 49% of crime (60% of violent crime, 42% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Huron Shores 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).