Photo: JeffJ · Public domainKearney has less crime per resident than nine in ten Canadian towns
Police clear 41% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. Add to that, the grade is A, built on crime the police covering Kearney reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 34.7 and other offences for 32.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. For every 1,000 residents, 5.4 violent incidents and 13.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Huntsville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Kearney
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 62% of Kearney’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Under the Ontario norm
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Kearney, 32.8. 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.
What’s behind Kearney’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Kearney itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 31 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.
The detachment closest to Kearney, 4,440 residents, recorded about 24 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.
Add about 59 property crimes and 36 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Three years of Kearney’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 38; 2025 was lightest, at 27.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kearney | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 38 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 33 | 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 Kearney, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Kearney’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5 | 1.1 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15 | 3.4 | 2% |
| Mischief | 12.3 | 2.8 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 4.7 | 1.1 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 4.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
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.
Crime in the places around Kearney
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kearney | 1,055 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Perry | 2,866 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Armour | 1,698 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
| Burk's Falls | 1,031 | 32.8 | 34.7 | A |
Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 4,442 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Kearney
Is Kearney safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Kearney scores 32.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 5.4 violent and 13.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Kearney?
Criminal Code traffic offences is the most common, at 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (4.6) and theft under $5,000 (3.4).
Is crime going up in Kearney?
No: the index fell 18%, from 33 in 2023 to 27.2 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Kearney’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 41%: 73% for violent crime and 26% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Kearney 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).