Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Brown's Corners than in 66% of Canadian towns
The index fell from 54.6 in 2023 to 50.3 in 2025. Its police logs show 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 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. The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering Brown's Corners reported through 2023 to 2025: #295 of 862 in Ontario. Split in two, the index gives 67.4 for violence and 47.4 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. Shared with the rest of the York Region service area: crime severity and crime rate.
The B+ for Brown's Corners, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Brown's Corners 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: #295 of 862 in Ontario and #570 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 York Region’s police record, by type
These are York Region’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, York Region runs highest on motor vehicle theft (2.6 per 1,000 against 1.7). Theft under $5,000 and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 14.7 | 0.01 | 80% |
| Sexual violations against children | 128.7 | 0.1 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 153.7 | 0.1 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 97.7 | 0.08 | 38% |
| Robbery | 617.3 | 0.5 | 47% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 91.7 | 0.07 | 65% |
| Other violent violations | 290.7 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,306 | 1.8 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 291 | 0.2 | 85% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3,372.3 | 2.6 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 732.7 | 0.6 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10,573 | 8.3 | 25% |
| Mischief | 2,944 | 2.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 266.3 | 0.2 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 4,033.3 | 3.1 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 552.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 636 | 0.5 | 91% |
| Impaired driving | 1,207.3 | 0.9 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3,411.7 | 2.7 | 8% |
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.
Brown's Corners, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 54.6 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 50.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Brown's Corners | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 Brown's Corners, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Brown's Corners
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners | 7,228 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Buttonville | 15,001 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Unionville | 17,632 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Cachet | 6,361 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Underwood | 5,972 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Hagerman's Corners | 43,555 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Milliken | 12,138 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- One figure for the city. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Brown's Corners is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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 Brown's Corners
Is Brown's Corners safe?
Police-reported crime in Brown's Corners scores 52.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Brown's Corners?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (5.3) and assault (4.9).
Is crime going up in Brown's Corners?
It went down 8% between 2023 and 2025, from 54.6 to 50.3.
How much of Brown's Corners’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (53% of violent crime, 25% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers 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).