Photo: P199 · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional than in 96% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety. For every 1,000 residents, 52.6 violent incidents and 75.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 509 and 222.3.
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 Sault Ste. Marie detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional records 8.7 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’s index of 302.3 compares with 56.2 for the typical town in Ontario. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 67% for Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional (84% violent, 49% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional scores 509 for violence and 222.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 24 km from Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional runs highest on drug offences (8.7 per 1,000 against 0.7), sexual assault (5.8 per 1,000 against 0.8) and break and enter (13.8 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 3.3 | 82% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23.7 | 13.8 | 39% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 3.1 | 100% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 6 | 3.5 | 62% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 1.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 30.3 | 17.6 | 21% |
| Mischief | 32 | 18.5 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 2.7 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 38.3 | 22.2 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 2.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 15 | 8.7 | 82% |
| Impaired driving | 15 | 8.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.8 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. 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 2,500 people or more.
Around 91 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional (1,740 residents), 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Add about 130 property crimes and 97 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 324.8, and 2025 the lightest at 278. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 278 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 304.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 324.8 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional | 1,771 | 302.3 | 509 | D− |
| Laird (10 km) | 1,221 | 36.2 | 57.2 | A |
| St. Joseph (23 km) | 1,560 | 302.3 | 509 | D− |
| Sault Ste. Marie (23 km) | 81,182 | 109.6 | 137 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional. Laird, 10.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 36.2 to 302.3. Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 10–23 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 1,742 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional
Is Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional safe?
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional measures 302.3 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 52.6 violent incidents and 75.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 29.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (26.8) and mischief (18.5).
Is crime going up in Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional?
Down 14%: 324.8 in 2023, 278 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 84% of violent crime and 49% of everything else, 67% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).