Photo: Derek Hatfield from Peterborough, Canada · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Norwood records less crime than almost every Canadian town
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 25.2 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year on year, 6.4 violent incidents and 8.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Scored on crime the police covering Norwood reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A+ for safety: #27 of 862 in Ontario.
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 Norwood
Below Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Norwood scores 25.2. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Norwood is 1st of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 51% for Norwood (64% violent, 43% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Rising since 2023
Norwood’s index went from 19.4 in 2023 to 30.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Norwood’s A+ for safety
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: #27 of 862 in Ontario and #29 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 Norwood, up 57% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 30.3, and 2023 lowest at 19.4. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Norwood | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 25.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 19.4 | 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 Norwood, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Norwood, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12.7 | 2.4 | 24% |
| Mischief | 6.3 | 1.2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 7.3 | 1.4 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 7.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
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.
Norwood comes 1st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood Ontario | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Stirling Ontario | 5,489 | 30.8 | 33.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Southwold Ontario | 5,473 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 4 | Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 5,390 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Centre Hastings Ontario | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Wingham Ontario | 5,411 | 52.3 | 65.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 30 | Central Frontenac Ontario | 5,348 | 78.4 | 112.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Oliver British Columbia | 5,262 | 132.5 | 95.2 | 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 Norwood in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Norwood recorded about 33 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 46 property crimes and 26 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 Norwood
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwood | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| Havelock | 5,663 | 29.2 | 33.7 | A+ |
| Campbellford | 15,103 | 37 | 48.3 | A |
| Douro-Dummer | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Norwood. Closest is Douro-Dummer, 15.7 km away, at 14.9 to 25.2 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Norwood
Is Norwood safe?
Statistics Canada puts Norwood at 25.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 6.4 and property crimes at 8.8 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Norwood?
Top of the list is assault (3.1 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 2.9, and other Criminal Code offences, at 2.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Norwood?
Up 57%: 19.4 in 2023, 30.3 in 2025.
How much of Norwood’s crime do police solve?
51%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 64% and non-violent crime at 43%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Norwood alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).