Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Carling is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Split in two, the index gives 86.4 for violence and 63.8 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 70.6 to 73. Its Safety Grade, C+ (#641 of 862 in Ontario), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Still, the yearly rates were 10.5 violent incidents and 36.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 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. Measured across the London service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What’s behind Carling’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Carling’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: #641 of 862 in Ontario and #1,358 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.
London’s crime, type by type
These are London’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, London runs highest on drug offences (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.9), robbery (0.7 per 1,000 against 0.4) and theft under $5,000 (21.4 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 6.3 | 0.01 | 100% |
| Sexual violations against children | 117.7 | 0.2 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 171.7 | 0.4 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 40.3 | 0.08 | 60% |
| Robbery | 334 | 0.7 | 57% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 68.3 | 0.1 | 98% |
| Other violent violations | 87.7 | 0.2 | 80% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,157.7 | 2.4 | 24% |
| Possession of stolen property | 153.7 | 0.3 | 82% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 929.7 | 1.9 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 291.3 | 0.6 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10,420.3 | 21.4 | 19% |
| Mischief | 2,369.7 | 4.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 210.7 | 0.4 | 47% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,674 | 5.5 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 363 | 0.7 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 942 | 1.9 | 94% |
| Impaired driving | 484.3 | 1 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 973.7 | 2 | 5% |
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.
Carling, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (73) and 2024 least (65.8). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Carling | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 65.8 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 70.6 | 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 Carling, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Carling
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carling | 21,536 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| North London | 9,584 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Huron Heights | 20,890 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Stoneybrook | 7,662 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| East London | 10,972 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Central London | 19,363 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Stoney Creek | 9,387 | 69.8 | 86.4 | 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
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Carling carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.
Questions about safety in Carling
Is Carling safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 69.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Carling stands, with 10.5 violent and 36.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Carling?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 21.4, other Criminal Code offences at 7.4 and assault at 5.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Carling?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 70.6 to 73.
How much of Carling’s crime do police solve?
38%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 61% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for 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).