Photo: Gary J. Wood from Toronto, ON, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Kingsville sees less crime per resident than 95% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 24.8 and other offences to 32, beside norms of 89.4 and 56. About 39% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Kingsville reported put it at A+ for safety: #89 of 862 in Ontario. Police counts work out at 4.6 violent incidents and 14.8 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 Kingsville
Under the Ontario norm
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 29.8 in Kingsville. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Kingsville’s two halves part ways: 24.8 for violence (typical 89.4) and 32 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Kingsville stands 5th, the lowest first. 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 sits behind Kingsville’s A+
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: #89 of 862 in Ontario and #110 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.
Kingsville’s crime by kind
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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 45.7 | 1.8 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 21.7 | 0.9 | 22% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.4 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 121.7 | 4.8 | 21% |
| Mischief | 52.3 | 2.1 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 30 | 1.2 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 51% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Impaired driving | 20.7 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Kingsville is 5th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 3 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 6 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 7 | Picton Ontario | 27,544 | 35.5 | 50.9 | A |
| 8 | Beaumont Alberta | 26,305 | 37 | 46.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| 11 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 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 Kingsville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 120 violent incidents a year on Kingsville’s police records (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 370 a year and other violations 95 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Kingsville’s index fell 8% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 32.3, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 27.3. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kingsville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 32.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 29.7 | 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 Kingsville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Kingsville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsville | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| Leamington | 34,653 | 57.2 | 81.7 | B |
| Essex | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Kingsville.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
Questions about safety in Kingsville
Is Kingsville safe?
Kingsville’s Crime Severity Index is 29.8 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 4.6 violent incidents and 14.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Kingsville?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 4.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4.6) and assault (2.9).
Is crime going up in Kingsville?
Down 8%: 29.7 in 2023, 27.3 in 2025.
How much of Kingsville’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 84% of violent crime and 25% of everything else, 39% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Kingsville alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).