Photo: P199 · Public domainCrime in Nipissing sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Across all the graded crimes, Nipissing lands on B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 63.1 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the North Bay detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Nipissing
Rising since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Nipissing moved from 37.9 to 99.7, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Nipissing’s police clear 53%, 67% of violent crime and 44% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on violence
Nipissing’s index splits into violent crime, 107.2 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 46 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Ontario norm
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Nipissing, 63.1. 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 Nipissing
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Nipissing itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 25 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.
In Nipissing, up 163% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 99.7 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 37.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Nipissing | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.9 | 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 Nipissing, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Nipissing, by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 10.3 | 1.5 | 7% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.7 | 1.1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15.3 | 2.3 | 13% |
| Mischief | 15 | 2.2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 1 | 100% |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.3 | 3.4 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.7 | — |
| Drug violations | 8 | 1.2 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 44.3 | 6.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
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.
About 69 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Nipissing (6,910 residents), 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 90 a year and other violations 110 (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 Nipissing
The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Nipissing
Is Nipissing safe?
Nipissing measures 63.1 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 10.2 violent incidents and 13.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Nipissing?
Police record Criminal Code traffic offences most, 9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.6) and fraud (5.3).
Is crime going up in Nipissing?
Up 163%: 37.9 in 2023, 99.7 in 2025.
How much of Nipissing’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 67% of violent crime and 44% of everything else, 53% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Nipissing 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).