Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Vinegar Hill records less crime per resident than 66% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Vinegar Hill reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety: #295 of 862 in Ontario. Its violent half comes to 67.4 and its non-violent half to 47.4, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. In 2023 the index stood at 54.6; it fell to 50.3 in 2025. Add to that, typical years here bring 9.7 violent incidents plus 21.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 10.8 plus 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 and crime rate, counted over the York Region service area.
Vinegar Hill: B+ for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Vinegar Hill can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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). Sexual assault 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.
Vinegar Hill, 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 | Vinegar Hill | 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 Vinegar Hill, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Vinegar Hill
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinegar Hill | 19,543 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Box Grove | 25,496 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Hagerman's Corners | 43,555 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Milliken | 24,431 | 66 | 92.6 | C |
| Markham Village | 10,319 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Underwood | 5,972 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| Agincourt North | 27,790 | 66 | 92.6 | A− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Vinegar Hill. The comparison skips 4 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the city. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Vinegar Hill is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Vinegar Hill
Is Vinegar Hill safe?
Statistics Canada puts Vinegar Hill at 52.8 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 9.7 and property crimes at 21.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Vinegar Hill?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.3 and assault at 4.9.
Is crime going up in Vinegar Hill?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 8%, to 50.3 from 54.6.
How much of Vinegar Hill’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 35% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 53% of violent crime and 25% of the rest, 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).