Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Mildmay than in 93% of Canadian towns
Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Mildmay’s letter for safety is A, worked out from crime the police covering Mildmay reported over 2023 to 2025: #120 of 862 in Ontario. In a usual year, 6.8 violent incidents and 13.0 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2. Violence accounts for an index of 38.7 and other offences for 32, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the South Bruce detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Mildmay
Below Ontario’s typical town
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 33.7 in Mildmay. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Mildmay stands 5th, the lowest first. 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.
Inside Mildmay’s A for safety
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: #120 of 862 in Ontario and #156 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Mildmay’s figures
Motor vehicle theft 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 | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 33.7 | 1.5 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 20.3 | 0.9 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 0.5 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79.7 | 3.6 | 10% |
| Mischief | 54.7 | 2.5 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.3 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 51.3 | 2.3 | 68% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.3 | 35% |
| Drug violations | 13.3 | 0.6 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 27.7 | 1.2 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 7.7 | 0.3 | 0% |
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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Mildmay stands 5th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glencoe Ontario | 6,468 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 2 | Pontiac Quebec | 6,490 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Pointe-Calumet Quebec | 6,427 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| 4 | Lanark Highlands Ontario | 6,370 | 33.1 | 38.8 | A |
| 5 | Mildmay Ontario | 6,247 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| 6 | McMasterville Quebec | 6,114 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 7 | Tay Valley Ontario | 6,171 | 37.7 | 46.6 | A |
| 8 | Les Coteaux Quebec | 6,294 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Sioux Lookout Ontario | 6,122 | 267.2 | 543.5 | D |
| 38 | Petrolia Ontario | 6,422 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Mildmay in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Mildmay is part of, 22,400 residents, recorded about 150 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 290 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.
Mildmay’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 34; the lightest was 2024, at 33.3. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mildmay | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 33.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 33.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Mildmay, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Mildmay
Mildmay has the lowest index of the places around it.
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.”
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Mildmay’s are shared with its surroundings.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Mildmay
Is Mildmay safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 33.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Mildmay stands, with 6.8 violent and 13 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Mildmay?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 3.7, theft under $5,000 at 3.6 and assault at 3.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Mildmay?
Barely: 33.8 in 2023, 34 in 2025.
How much of Mildmay’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 74% of violent crime and 23% of everything else, 40% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Mildmay 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).