Photo: the real Kam75 · CC BY-SA 2.0For recorded crime, Oliver Paipoonge sits in the middle of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 62.7, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5. Still, each year brought 13.5 violent incidents and 12.2 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). The overall Safety Grade is B− (#512 of 862 in Ontario), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Ontario’s towns sit around 56.2, midway up their range.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Thunder Bay detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Oliver Paipoonge
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Oliver Paipoonge stood at 54.6, by 2025 at 82.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 66% of crime in Oliver Paipoonge ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 86% of violent crime and 49% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Oliver Paipoonge records 2.1 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Violent crime scores 107.8 on Oliver Paipoonge’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 45.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Oliver Paipoonge
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 16 km from Oliver Paipoonge, not to the town.
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: #512 of 862 in Ontario and #942 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Oliver Paipoonge’s index climbed 50%
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (82.1) and 2024 least (51.3). 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 | Oliver Paipoonge | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 51.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 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 Oliver Paipoonge, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Oliver Paipoonge’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Oliver Paipoonge runs highest on sexual assault (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.9), drug offences (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (8.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Motor vehicle theft 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 to 10,000 people.
The detachment closest to Oliver Paipoonge, 6,170 residents, recorded about 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.
Property crime adds about 75 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Oliver Paipoonge places 20th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Lucan Ontario | 6,827 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 3 | Glencoe Ontario | 6,468 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Lanark Highlands Ontario | 6,370 | 33.1 | 38.8 | A |
| 8 | Mildmay Ontario | 6,247 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Plessisville Quebec | 6,774 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| 18 | Princeville Quebec | 6,400 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| 19 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized Ontario | 6,831 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 20 | Oliver Paipoonge Ontario | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,486 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | Mont-Joli Quebec | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| 23 | Humboldt Saskatchewan | 6,551 | 71.5 | 72.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Oliver Paipoonge in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Oliver Paipoonge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Paipoonge | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| Thunder Bay (16 km) | 117,671 | 113.6 | 209.7 | C− |
| Thunder Bay, Unorganized (23 km) | 6,831 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| Neebing (25 km) | 2,390 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Oliver Paipoonge with figures are 16–25 km away.
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. 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.”
- 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 Oliver Paipoonge
Is Oliver Paipoonge safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Oliver Paipoonge comes to 62.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 13.5 violent incidents and 12.2 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Oliver Paipoonge?
Criminal Code traffic offences is the most common, at 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (8.1) and other Criminal Code offences (5.7).
Is crime going up in Oliver Paipoonge?
Yes: the index rose 50%, from 54.6 in 2023 to 82.1 in 2025.
How much of Oliver Paipoonge’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 66% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 86% of violent crime and 49% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Oliver Paipoonge together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).