Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Mt. Hope Huron Park is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 75.8 to 66.8. Weighing it all, Mt. Hope Huron Park earns C+ for safety (#680 of 862 in Ontario), with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Its police logs show 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ the numbers are 10.8 and 25.1. 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. Crime severity and crime rate: the Waterloo Region (Kitchener) service area.
What’s behind Mt. Hope Huron Park’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Mt. Hope Huron Park can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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.
Mt. Hope Huron Park, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 75.8 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, 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 | Mt. Hope Huron Park | 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park, 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 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Hope Huron Park | 5,174 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Fairfield | 3,497 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| City Commercial Core | 2,581 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Central Frederick | 5,895 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Cherry Hill | 6,304 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Victoria Park | 3,574 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Bridgeport East | 3,903 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. 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.
Questions about safety in Mt. Hope Huron Park
Is Mt. Hope Huron Park safe?
The short answer is an index of 71.9 for Mt. Hope Huron Park (2023–2025), built from 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Mt. Hope Huron Park?
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 Mt. Hope Huron Park?
It went down 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 75.8 to 66.8.
How much of Mt. Hope Huron Park’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 32% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 45% of violent and 25% of non-violent crime.
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).