Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0Near the middle: Mississauga’s crime severity is close to the typical Canadian town its size
Its violent half comes to 75.6 and its non-violent half to 48.9, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. Nobody publishes crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for Mississauga alone, so this card uses the figure for the Peel Region (Mississauga/Brampton) service area. In 2023 the index stood at 52.2; it rose to 59.4 in 2025. Annual rates stand at 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size.
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.
What stands out about safety in Mississauga
Motor vehicle theft: high for a town its size
Mississauga records 4.6 incidents of motor vehicle theft per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Near the Ontario middle
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Mississauga, 56.2. 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.
Before the grade: Mississauga’s figures
This page carries no grade so far. Canada will be graded all at once, after its data has been checked.
Crime Severity Index
Violent crime index
Non-violent crime index
Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, 2023–2025 means. City neighbourhoods count, each with its city’s figure; city totals and reserves don’t.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Mississauga’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Mississauga 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 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 50,000 people or more.
Mississauga, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (59.4); the lightest was 2023 (52.2). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mississauga | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Mississauga, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 13,000 violent incidents a year across the police area of 1,542,400 residents that includes Mississauga, 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.
Property crime adds about 34,700 a year and other violations 7,950 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Mississauga
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississauga | 764,597 | 56.2 | 75.6 | — |
| Creditview | 10,972 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| DT Core | 33,003 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Roseborough | 54,539 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Uptown | 12,244 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Fairview | 7,597 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
| Hurontario | 43,877 | 56.2 | 75.6 | B |
6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- A wider service area. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Mississauga included.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Mississauga
Is Mississauga safe?
Its police recorded 8.5 violent incidents and 22.6 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Mississauga a Crime Severity Index of 56.2. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Mississauga?
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 Mississauga?
It went up 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 52.2 to 59.4.
How much of Mississauga’s crime do police solve?
About 33% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 54% of violent and 20% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Mississauga together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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). 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).