Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Doon South is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
The index fell from 75.8 in 2023 to 66.8 in 2025. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Doon South at C+ (#680 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns. The yearly rates were 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Split in two, the index gives 89.7 for violence and 65.4 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2).
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. The crime severity and crime rate numbers here cover the Waterloo Region (Kitchener) service area.
What’s behind Doon South’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Doon South itself compares.
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.
Doon South, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (75.8); 2025 was the lightest, at 66.8. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Doon South | 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 Doon South, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime across Waterloo Region (Kitchener), 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 robbery (0.5 per 1,000 against 0.4). Drug offences sits below it.
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 Doon South
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doon South | 15,044 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Pioneer Park | 8,781 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Huron South | 5,555 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Pioneer Tower West | 4,122 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Rosenberg | 9,831 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Trillium Industrial Park | 3,420 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Country Hills | 4,561 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
Sharing its police with 6 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. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Doon South is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Doon South
Is Doon South safe?
Its police recorded 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Doon South a Crime Severity Index of 71.9. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Doon South?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 14.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 7.7 and fraud at 7.6.
Is crime going up in Doon South?
It went down 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 75.8 to 66.8.
How much of Doon South’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 32% of crime (45% of violent crime, 25% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).