Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Orangeville runs lower than in 80% of Canadian towns
All 5 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Graded on crime the police covering Orangeville reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A− for safety: #213 of 862 in Ontario. Recorded violent incidents ran at 9.5 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 22.7, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 50.6 for violence and 41 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56).
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 Orangeville
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Orangeville is 12th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 48% for Orangeville (86% violent, 29% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Ontario
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Orangeville scores 43.5. 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: A− for Orangeville
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: #213 of 862 in Ontario and #368 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Crime in Orangeville, type by type
Break and enter and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.3 | 0.2 | 94% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 11.7 | 0.4 | 68% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 94% |
| Breaking and entering | 34.3 | 1.1 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 27 | 0.8 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 21 | 0.6 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 338.7 | 10.4 | 21% |
| Mischief | 127 | 3.9 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 12.7 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 111 | 3.4 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.3 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 24.3 | 0.8 | 77% |
| Impaired driving | 42.3 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
By its index, Orangeville stands 12th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| 2 | Fergus Ontario | 34,565 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Picton Ontario | 27,544 | 35.5 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Rockland Ontario | 30,375 | 38.2 | 56.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Okotoks Alberta | 33,482 | 42.5 | 48.7 | A− |
| 10 | Chestermere Alberta | 31,671 | 43.2 | 43.5 | A− |
| 11 | Port Moody British Columbia | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| 12 | Orangeville Ontario | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| 13 | Saint-Georges Quebec | 33,881 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Alma Quebec | 30,659 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Wasaga Beach Ontario | 28,736 | 50 | 61.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | 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 Orangeville in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 310 violent incidents a year on Orangeville’s police records (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 740 property crimes, plus 250 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Orangeville’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
At 44.1, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 43. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Orangeville | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | 60 |
| 2024 | 44.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 43.3 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Orangeville, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Orangeville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orangeville | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| Mono | 10,036 | 34.9 | 55.4 | A |
| East Garafraxa | 2,976 | 28.7 | 22 | A+ |
| Amaranth | 4,808 | 29.9 | 22.1 | A+ |
| Grand Valley | 4,759 | 26.4 | 20.7 | A+ |
| Erin | 12,924 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
Orangeville has the highest index of the places around it. Just 6.9 km away, Mono comes to 34.9, against 43.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Orangeville
Is Orangeville safe?
Statistics Canada puts Orangeville at 43.5 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 9.5 and property crimes at 22.7 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Orangeville?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 10.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 5.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 5.4.
Is crime going up in Orangeville?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 43.3 to 43.
How much of Orangeville’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 48%: 86% for violent crime and 29% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Orangeville 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).