Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Barbertown is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Violence accounts for an index of 75.6 and other offences for 48.9, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Barbertown at B (#390 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Even so, by 2025 the index had climbed to 59.4, up from 52.2 in 2023. For every 1,000 residents, 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, the figures are 10.8 and 25.1.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity and crime rate (the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area).
The grade: B for Barbertown
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Barbertown’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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: #390 of 862 in Ontario and #765 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 Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton)’s police record, by type
These are Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton)’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) runs highest on motor vehicle theft (4.6 per 1,000 against 1.7), robbery (0.7 per 1,000 against 0.4) and drug offences (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.9). Fraud and mischief sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 19.7 | 0.01 | 70% |
| Sexual violations against children | 147.3 | 0.10 | 84% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 178.3 | 0.1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 190.3 | 0.1 | 27% |
| Robbery | 1,134.7 | 0.7 | 33% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 93.7 | 0.06 | 88% |
| Other violent violations | 204 | 0.1 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,733.3 | 1.8 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 581.3 | 0.4 | 94% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7,010.7 | 4.6 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 775.7 | 0.5 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 14,612 | 9.5 | 16% |
| Mischief | 3,778.7 | 2.5 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 570 | 0.4 | 55% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,542.3 | 1.7 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 396.7 | 0.3 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 2,093.7 | 1.4 | 44% |
| Impaired driving | 987.7 | 0.6 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 669 | 0.4 | 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.
Barbertown, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 59.4; the lightest was 2023, at 52.2. 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 | Barbertown | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 57 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 52.2 | 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 Barbertown, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Barbertown
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbertown | 9,209 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Roseborough | 54,539 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Streetsville | 13,535 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Britannia | 4,641 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Central Erin Mills | 36,393 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Creditview | 10,972 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Hurontario | 43,877 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
The comparison skips 6 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. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Barbertown carries the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Barbertown
Is Barbertown safe?
With 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Barbertown comes to 56.2 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more have a median of 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Barbertown?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 9.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of motor vehicle theft (4.6) and assault (4.3).
Is crime going up in Barbertown?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 14%, to 59.4 from 52.2.
How much of Barbertown’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 33% of crime (54% of violent crime, 20% 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).