Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Oakridge is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Overall, Oakridge grades C+ for safety (#641 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 70.6 then 73. Its police logs show 10.5 violent incidents and 36.4 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 86.4 for violence and 63.8 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. Area-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the London service area.
What’s behind Oakridge’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Oakridge on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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.
What London’s police record, 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.
Oakridge, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (73); 2024 was the low point, at 65.8. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Oakridge | 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 Oakridge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Oakridge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakridge | 16,247 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Hyde Park | 14,769 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Byron | 15,277 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| West London | 24,322 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Westmount | 19,591 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| River Bend | 5,930 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Southcrest | 14,477 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.
- One figure for the city. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Oakridge is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Oakridge
Is Oakridge safe?
Its police recorded 10.5 violent incidents and 36.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Oakridge a Crime Severity Index of 69.8. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Oakridge?
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 Oakridge?
Barely: 70.6 in 2023, 73 in 2025.
How much of Oakridge’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 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).