Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in North Stormont runs lower than in 90% of Canadian towns
The index fell from 39.2 in 2023 to 34.4 in 2025. Year on year, 8.0 violent incidents and 14.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its Safety Grade is A, on crime the police covering North Stormont reported from 2023 to 2025: #162 of 862 in Ontario. Violence accounts for an index of 47.2 and other offences for 33.1, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8.
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. Shared with the rest of the Stormont/Dundas/Glengarry detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in North Stormont
Lower than most of Ontario
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, North Stormont scores 36.9. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, North Stormont is 11th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 43% for North Stormont (74% violent, 26% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 North Stormont’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: #162 of 862 in Ontario and #213 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.
Crime in North Stormont, type by type
Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15.3 | 0.2 | 87% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7 | 0.10 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 11.7 | 0.2 | 71% |
| Breaking and entering | 85.3 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 109.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 48 | 0.7 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 255.7 | 3.5 | 17% |
| Mischief | 171.3 | 2.4 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 18 | 0.3 | 54% |
| Administration of justice violations | 196.7 | 2.7 | 79% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 24.7 | 0.3 | 50% |
| Drug violations | 26.3 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Impaired driving | 68.3 | 0.9 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4.3 | 0.06 | — |
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 Stormont, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 39.2; the lightest was 2025, at 34.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | North Stormont | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 37.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 39.2 | 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 Stormont, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
72,300 residents, about 580 violent incidents a year: the police area North Stormont belongs to, 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.
And about 1,040 property crimes, plus 420 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
North Stormont is 11th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alnwick/Haldimand Ontario | 8,197 | 21.6 | 26.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Plattsville Ontario | 8,251 | 25.1 | 27.5 | A+ |
| 3 | Otonabee-South Monaghan Ontario | 8,084 | 26 | 27.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Whitewater Region Ontario | 7,899 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Chatsworth Ontario | 7,770 | 32 | 38.1 | A |
| 9 | Chesley Ontario | 7,639 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| 10 | Augusta Ontario | 7,767 | 34 | 40.2 | A |
| 11 | North Stormont Ontario | 7,946 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 12 | Rigaud Quebec | 8,187 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 13 | Coteau-du-Lac Quebec | 7,839 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 14 | Newell County Alberta | 7,846 | 40.4 | 25.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | 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 Stormont in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around North Stormont
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than North Stormont. Embrun, 16.8 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 26.9 to 36.9.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so North Stormont’s are shared with its surroundings.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- 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.
Questions about safety in North Stormont
Is North Stormont safe?
North Stormont’s Crime Severity Index is 36.9 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8 violent incidents and 14.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in North Stormont?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 4.9, other Criminal Code offences at 3.8 and assault at 3.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in North Stormont?
No: the index fell 12%, from 39.2 in 2023 to 34.4 in 2025.
How much of North Stormont’s crime do police solve?
43%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 74% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for North Stormont 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).