Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Central Frederick records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Per 1,000 residents a year, 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Its Safety Grade, C+ (#680 of 862 in Ontario), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. The index fell from 75.8 in 2023 to 66.8 in 2025. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 89.7 and 65.4.
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 and crime rate published for the Waterloo Region (Kitchener) service area, not by town.
What’s behind Central Frederick’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Central Frederick’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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: #680 of 862 in Ontario and #1,466 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Central Frederick, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (75.8); the low point came in 2025, at 66.8. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Central Frederick | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66.8 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 73.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 75.8 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Central Frederick, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Waterloo Region (Kitchener)’s crime, type by type
These are Waterloo Region (Kitchener)’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Waterloo Region (Kitchener) runs highest on assault (7.7 per 1,000 against 4.9), fraud (7.6 per 1,000 against 5) and break and enter (3 per 1,000 against 2.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 227.7 | 0.3 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 143.3 | 0.2 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 69 | 0.10 | 52% |
| Robbery | 362.3 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 120.3 | 0.2 | 69% |
| Other violent violations | 165.7 | 0.2 | 40% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,068.3 | 3 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 715 | 1 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1,197 | 1.7 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 290.7 | 0.4 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 9,915.7 | 14.2 | 18% |
| Mischief | 2,902.3 | 4.2 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 339 | 0.5 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 3,165.7 | 4.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 741.7 | 1.1 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 374.7 | 0.5 | 90% |
| Impaired driving | 414.7 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 67.7 | 0.10 | 74% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Crime in the places around Central Frederick
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Frederick | 5,895 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Auditorium | 3,918 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| City Commercial Core | 2,581 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Cedar Hill | 3,190 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Mt. Hope Huron Park | 5,174 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Fairfield | 3,497 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Mill Courtland Woodside Park | 3,319 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Central Frederick carries the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Central Frederick
Is Central Frederick safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 71.9 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Central Frederick stands, with 14.2 violent and 32.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Central Frederick?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 14.2, assault at 7.7 and fraud at 7.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Central Frederick?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 66.8 from 75.8.
How much of Central Frederick’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 32% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 45% of violent crime and 25% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
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).