Photo: Michael Hiemstra from Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime in Rosenberg is close to typical for Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 89.7 and its non-violent half to 65.4, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. The overall Safety Grade is C+ (#680 of 862 in Ontario), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, in 2023 the index stood at 75.8; it fell to 66.8 in 2025. Behind the grade sit 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 Waterloo Region (Kitchener) service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What sits behind Rosenberg’s C+
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Rosenberg 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.
Rosenberg, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 75.8; the lightest was 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 | Rosenberg | 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 Rosenberg, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
What Waterloo Region (Kitchener)’s police record, 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 Rosenberg
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosenberg | 9,831 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Huron South | 5,555 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Country Hills West | 5,936 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Laurentian West | 16,857 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Country Hills | 4,561 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Laurentian Hills | 10,026 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| Alpine | 3,055 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
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. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the city. The figures for Rosenberg are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- 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 Rosenberg
Is Rosenberg safe?
With 14.2 violent incidents and 32.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Rosenberg comes to 71.9 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more have a median of 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Rosenberg?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 14.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (7.7) and fraud (7.6).
Is crime going up in Rosenberg?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 12%, to 66.8 from 75.8.
How much of Rosenberg’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?
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).