Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Southcrest sits in the middle of Canadian towns
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 letter overall is C+ (#641 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Even so, in a usual year, 10.5 violent incidents and 36.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 10.8 and 25.1.
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 behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the London service area.
What’s behind Southcrest’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Southcrest 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: #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.
Which crimes make up London’s figures
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.
Southcrest, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (73) and 2024 least (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 | Southcrest | 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 Southcrest, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Southcrest
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southcrest | 14,477 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Highland | 19,963 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Westmount | 19,591 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| West London | 24,322 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| South London | 14,684 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Bostwick | 7,694 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
| Oakridge | 16,247 | 69.8 | 86.4 | C+ |
6 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Southcrest is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Southcrest
Is Southcrest safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Southcrest scores 69.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 10.5 violent and 36.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Southcrest?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 21.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.4 and assault at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Southcrest?
Hardly at all, from 70.6 in 2023 to 73 in 2025.
How much of Southcrest’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 38% of crime (61% of violent crime, 26% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
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).