Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Orillia than in 78% of Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is C−, on crime the police covering Orillia reported from 2023 to 2025: #806 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 23.4 violent incidents and 40.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 146.3 and 80.3. Among its 4 neighbours with figures, 3 record less crime per resident.
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 Orillia
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Orillia records 2.4 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 56% for Orillia (77% violent, 41% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Higher than most of Ontario
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Orillia scores 98.5. Towns its size ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Orillia is 29th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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.
Orillia: C− for safety, and why
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: #806 of 862 in Ontario and #1,926 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 Orillia, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Orillia runs highest on sexual assault (2.4 per 1,000 against 0.8), mischief (7 per 1,000 against 3.7) and assault (11.6 per 1,000 against 6.6). Motor vehicle theft sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.4 | 82% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 33.3 | 0.9 | 98% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 20.7 | 0.6 | 68% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 7 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 11.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Breaking and entering | 103 | 2.8 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.3 | 97% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.3 | 1.1 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 23 | 0.6 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 729 | 19.6 | 24% |
| Mischief | 261 | 7 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 30 | 0.8 | 72% |
| Administration of justice violations | 463.3 | 12.4 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 52.3 | 1.4 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 52.7 | 1.4 | 98% |
| Impaired driving | 67.3 | 1.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3.7 | 0.10 | — |
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, Orillia stands 29th 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+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Orangeville Ontario | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 14 | East Gwillimbury Ontario | 42,989 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Pointe-Claire Quebec | 37,437 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 27 | Spruce Grove Alberta | 44,575 | 81.6 | 76.3 | C |
| 28 | Leduc Alberta | 39,966 | 82.8 | 70.5 | C |
| 29 | Orillia Ontario | 37,735 | 98.5 | 146.3 | C− |
| 30 | North Cowichan British Columbia | 34,525 | 99 | 124 | C− |
| 31 | Val-d'Or Quebec | 33,353 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| 32 | Moose Jaw Saskatchewan | 36,337 | 105 | 105.2 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Orillia in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Orillia recorded about 870 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.
And about 1,500 property crimes, plus 820 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, Orillia’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 102.4, and 2024 the lightest at 91.3. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Orillia | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 91.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 102.4 | 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 Orillia, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Orillia
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orillia | 37,735 | 98.5 | 146.3 | C− |
| Severn | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| Chippewas of Rama First Nation | 1,149 | 193.2 | 255.2 | D |
| Oro-Medonte | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| Ramara | 11,551 | 37.3 | 55.6 | A |
3 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Orillia. Just 7.1 km away, Severn comes to 41.7, against 98.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Orillia
Is Orillia safe?
Its police recorded 23.4 violent incidents and 40.2 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Orillia a Crime Severity Index of 98.5. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Orillia?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (19.6 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 17.6, and assault, at 11.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Orillia?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 102.4 to 101.8.
How much of Orillia’s crime do police solve?
About 56% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 77% of violent and 41% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Orillia and nowhere else.
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).