Photo: Fishonleash · CC BY 4.0Per resident, King records less crime than 66% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 67.4 and other offences for 47.4, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. By 2025 the index had dropped to 50.3, down from 54.6 in 2023. That puts it at B+ for safety, judged on crime the police covering King reported from 2023 to 2025: #295 of 862 in Ontario. For every 1,000 residents, 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures 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. Shared with the rest of the York Region service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in King
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, King is 22nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
About the Ontario norm
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, King scores 52.8. 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.
The grade: B+ for King
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: #295 of 862 in Ontario and #570 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.
What police record in King, by type
Sexual assault and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 14.7 | 0.01 | 80% |
| Sexual violations against children | 128.7 | 0.1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 153.7 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 97.7 | 0.08 | 38% |
| Robbery | 617.3 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 91.7 | 0.07 | 65% |
| Other violent violations | 290.7 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,306 | 1.8 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 291 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3,372.3 | 2.6 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 732.7 | 0.6 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10,573 | 8.3 | 25% |
| Mischief | 2,944 | 2.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 266.3 | 0.2 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 4,033.3 | 3.1 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 552.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 636 | 0.5 | 91% |
| Impaired driving | 1,207.3 | 0.9 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3,411.7 | 2.7 | 8% |
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.
King, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 54.6, against a low of 50.3 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | King | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 King, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The police area King is part of, 1,298,900 residents, recorded about 12,500 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 27,300 a year and other violations 11,000 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
King comes 22nd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 2 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 3 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 4 | Picton Ontario | 27,544 | 35.5 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| 20 | Alma Quebec | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 21 | Wasaga Beach Ontario | 28,736 | 50 | 61.1 | B+ |
| 22 | King Ontario | 29,077 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 23 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Quebec | 26,786 | 53.7 | 69.5 | B |
| 24 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides Quebec | 26,673 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 25 | Enfield Nova Scotia | 26,960 | 55.1 | 63.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Courtenay British Columbia | 32,869 | 131.2 | 129 | 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 King in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around King
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King | 29,077 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Hope | 6,997 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Teston | 7,437 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Peace Village | 14,598 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Purpleville | 19,918 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Aurora | 67,385 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Upper Thornhill Estates | 10,435 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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 policing. King is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
Questions about safety in King
Is King safe?
King’s Crime Severity Index is 52.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in King?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (8.3 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 5.3, and assault, at 4.9, follow.
Is crime going up in King?
The reverse: 54.6 in 2023 came down to 50.3 by 2025, 8% lower.
How much of King’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 35% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 53% of violent and 25% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers King and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).