Photo: Jean7031 · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Cachet than in 66% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 67.4 and 47.4. On crime the police covering Cachet reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety: #295 of 862 in Ontario. Police counts work out at 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1. Add to that, in 2023 the index stood at 54.6; it fell to 50.3 in 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 behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the York Region service area.
What’s behind Cachet’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Cachet 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: #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.
York Region’s crime, type 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.
Cachet, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 54.6, and 2025 the lightest at 50.3. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cachet | 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 Cachet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Cachet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cachet | 6,361 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Berczy Village | 22,149 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Unionville | 17,632 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Buttonville | 15,001 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Quantztown | 13,146 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Brown's Corners | 7,228 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Cathedraltown | 11,029 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
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
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Cachet is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Cachet
Is Cachet safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Cachet comes to 52.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 21.4 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Cachet?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then fraud (5.3) and assault (4.9).
Is crime going up in Cachet?
Down 8%: 54.6 in 2023, 50.3 in 2025.
How much of Cachet’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 53% of violent crime and 25% of everything else, 35% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).