Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Mono than in 92% of Canadian towns
None of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. What’s more, on the record of crime the police covering Mono reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety: #138 of 862 in Ontario. Its violent half comes to 55.4 and its non-violent half to 27, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Year on year, 4.1 violent incidents and 11.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 30.5 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 Mono
Below Ontario’s typical town
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Mono, 34.9. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Mono comes 8th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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.
What’s behind Mono’s grade
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: #138 of 862 in Ontario and #174 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Mono, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0 | 0 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 10.3 | 1 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 1.4 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.8 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 27 | 2.7 | 4% |
| Mischief | 14.7 | 1.5 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8.7 | 0.9 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Impaired driving | 10.3 | 1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Mono is 8th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Palmerston Ontario | 10,029 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 6 | Thamesford Ontario | 9,755 | 30.7 | 22.5 | A+ |
| 7 | Malahide Ontario | 9,995 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 8 | Mono Ontario | 10,036 | 34.9 | 55.4 | A |
| 9 | Laurentian Valley Ontario | 9,714 | 36.3 | 44.5 | A |
| 10 | Saint-Zotique Quebec | 10,445 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 11 | Blind Bay British Columbia | 9,984 | 40.8 | 37.4 | A− |
| 12 | Mitchell Ontario | 10,080 | 44.1 | 52.1 | A− |
| 13 | Wiarton Ontario | 9,799 | 46 | 52.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Seaforth Ontario | 10,402 | 49.1 | 67.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Wheatland County Alberta | 10,150 | 298.8 | 486.4 | 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 Mono in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 41 violent incidents a year on Mono’s police records (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 120 a year and other violations 29 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Mono’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 52.1, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 26. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mono | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | 60 |
| 2024 | 52.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 26.5 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Mono, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Mono
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mono | 10,036 | 34.9 | 55.4 | A |
| Orangeville | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| Amaranth | 4,808 | 29.9 | 22.1 | A+ |
| Shelburne | 10,767 | 35.2 | 52.8 | A |
| East Garafraxa | 2,976 | 28.7 | 22 | A+ |
2 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Mono. Amaranth, 12.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 29.9 to 34.9.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Mono
Is Mono safe?
Mono measures 34.9 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 4.1 violent incidents and 11.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Mono?
Police record fraud most, 4.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (2.7) and assault (1.5).
Is crime going up in Mono?
Not much: the index went from 26.5 in 2023 to 26 in 2025.
How much of Mono’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 33%: 61% for violent crime and 16% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Mono’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).