Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0North Frontenac records more crime per resident than 65% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 78.4 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. The Safety Grade comes out at C+, drawn from crime the police covering North Frontenac reported through 2023 to 2025: #748 of 862 in Ontario. For every 1,000 residents, 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.9 and 31.2. Within Ontario, half the towns score under 56.2.
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. Measured across the Frontenac (Sharbot Lake) detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in North Frontenac
Visitors count, residents divide
Seasonal homes make up about 60% of North Frontenac’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in North Frontenac stood at 112, by 2025 at 61.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 54% of crime in North Frontenac ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 85% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and North Frontenac stands 30th, the lowest first. 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: C+ for North Frontenac
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: #748 of 862 in Ontario and #1,604 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In North Frontenac, down 45% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 112; the lightest was 2025, at 61.2. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | North Frontenac | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 62.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 112 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering North Frontenac, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up North Frontenac’s figures
Against the typical town its size, North Frontenac runs highest on break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.8). Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 34.7 | 4.4 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.5 | 32% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39.7 | 5 | 21% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 3.3 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 1.4 | 64% |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 3.3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.7 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 21 | 2.7 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3.3 | 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 to 10,000 people.
North Frontenac comes 30th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Ontario | 2,505 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Berwick Nova Scotia | 2,631 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 28 | Salisbury New Brunswick | 2,585 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague Quebec | 2,536 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| 30 | North Frontenac Ontario | 2,515 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| 31 | Chase British Columbia | 2,591 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| 32 | Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,601 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 33 | Electoral Area G, Cowichan Valley British Columbia | 2,597 | 87 | 109.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 39 | Brooke-Alvinston Ontario | 2,557 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | 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 North Frontenac in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area North Frontenac is part of, 7,860 residents, recorded about 91 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.
Property crime adds about 170 a year and other violations 92 (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 North Frontenac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Frontenac | 2,515 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Addington Highlands (14 km) | 2,827 | 84.5 | 105.8 | C |
| Central Frontenac (27 km) | 5,348 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| Tweed (45 km) | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Madoc (47 km) | 2,467 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Stone Mills (49 km) | 8,523 | 28.2 | 33.5 | A+ |
North Frontenac sits above 3 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Tweed (44.5 km away), scores 46.8 against 78.4. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 14–49 km from North Frontenac.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: North Frontenac together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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 North Frontenac
Is North Frontenac safe?
North Frontenac scores 78.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 11.5 violent incidents and 21.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in North Frontenac?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (5.1) and fraud (5.1).
Is crime going up in North Frontenac?
Down 45%: 112 in 2023, 61.2 in 2025.
How much of North Frontenac’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 85% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 54% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for North Frontenac 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).