Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Britannia records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 75.6 for violence and 48.9 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). The index rose from 52.2 in 2023 to 59.4 in 2025. Its letter overall is B (#390 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Typical years here bring 8.5 violent incidents plus 22.6 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. Measured across the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What sits behind Britannia’s B
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Britannia 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: #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.
Crime across Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton), 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) 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.
Britannia, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 59.4 in 2025, having been lowest in 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 | Britannia | 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 Britannia, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Britannia
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britannia | 4,641 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Hurontario | 43,877 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Roseborough | 54,539 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Uptown | 12,244 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Barbertown | 9,209 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Creditview | 10,972 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Streetsville | 13,535 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Britannia is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Britannia
Is Britannia safe?
Britannia measures 56.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Britannia?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 9.5, motor vehicle theft at 4.6 and assault at 4.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Britannia?
Up 14%: 52.2 in 2023, 59.4 in 2025.
How much of Britannia’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 33% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 54% of violent and 20% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).