Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0For recorded crime, Neebing sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Across all the graded crimes, Neebing lands on B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Even so, in a usual year, 13.5 violent incidents and 12.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 62.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Thunder Bay detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Neebing
Heavier than in 2023
Neebing’s index went from 54.6 in 2023 to 82.1 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Neebing’s police clear 66%, 86% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Neebing’s index splits into violent crime, 107.8 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 45.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Ontario middle
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 62.7 in Neebing. 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.
The grade: B− for Neebing
How sure: Less sure, as Neebing has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 30 km away.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Neebing: up 50%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 82.1, with 2024 the lightest at 51.3. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Neebing | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Neebing, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Neebing, by type
Against the typical town its size, Neebing runs highest on assault (8.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 12 | 1.9 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7 | 1.1 | 29% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 16.3 | 2.6 | 35% |
| Mischief | 20.3 | 3.3 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 21.3 | 3.5 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 1.1 | 55% |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Impaired driving | 41.3 | 6.7 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
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 people or more.
The detachment nearest Neebing, 6,170 residents: around 83 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.
Add about 75 property crimes and 110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Neebing
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neebing | 2,390 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| Oliver Paipoonge (25 km) | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| Thunder Bay (30 km) | 117,671 | 113.6 | 209.7 | C− |
| Thunder Bay, Unorganized (48 km) | 6,831 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
2 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. No closer places have figures: these lie 25–48 km from Neebing.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Neebing
Is Neebing safe?
Neebing scores 62.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 13.5 violent incidents and 12.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Neebing?
Police record Criminal Code traffic offences most, 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (8.1) and other Criminal Code offences (5.7).
Is crime going up in Neebing?
It went up 50% between 2023 and 2025, from 54.6 to 82.1.
How much of Neebing’s crime do police solve?
About 66% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 86% of violent and 49% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Neebing and everywhere else it polices.
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).