Photo: mark.watmough from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Madoc records less crime than three in four Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 68 and its non-violent half to 38.7, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, 8.5 violent incidents and 15.5 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering Madoc reported through 2023 to 2025.
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, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Central Hastings detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Madoc
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Madoc’s police clear 50%, 78% of violent crime and 30% of the rest. Questions ↓
Down since 2023
From 46.1 in 2023 to 37.6 in 2025: that is Madoc’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Near the Ontario middle
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Madoc, 46.8. Towns its size ↓
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 Madoc’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Madoc itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 16 km away.
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.
What police record in Madoc, by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.3 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 21.7 | 1.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.5 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 3.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 60.7 | 3.1 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 58 | 3 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 0.3 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 13.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 29.3 | 1.5 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4 | 0.2 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Madoc’s index dropped 19%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 56.7; 2025 was the lightest, at 37.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Madoc | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 56.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 46.1 | 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 Madoc, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Madoc, 19,500 residents: around 160 violent incidents a year, 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.
And about 300 property crimes, plus 150 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Madoc
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madoc | 2,467 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Centre Hastings | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Tweed | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Marmora | 4,761 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
3 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
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Madoc
Is Madoc safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Madoc comes to 46.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 8.5 violent incidents and 15.5 property crimes. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Madoc?
Fraud is the most common, at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (4.4) and assault (3.9).
Is crime going up in Madoc?
Down 19%: 46.1 in 2023, 37.6 in 2025.
How much of Madoc’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 50%: 78% for violent crime and 30% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Madoc 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).