Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Oro-Medonte records less crime per resident than 98% of Canadian towns
Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Add to that, the grade is A+, built on crime the police covering Oro-Medonte reported from 2023 to 2025: #49 of 862 in Ontario. The local count comes to 5.4 violent incidents and 10.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 31.5 for violence and 25.4 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Orillia (Oro-Medonte) detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Oro-Medonte
Below Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Oro-Medonte scores 27. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Oro-Medonte is 3rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
From 31.4 in 2023 to 24.8 in 2025: that is Oro-Medonte’s index, against 69.5 and 60 for the typical Canadian town its size. 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.
What’s behind Oro-Medonte’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: #49 of 862 in Ontario and #54 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.
Which crimes make up Oro-Medonte’s figures
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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 28 | 1.1 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 0.6 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 72 | 2.9 | 6% |
| Mischief | 37 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 1 | 77% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.4 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Impaired driving | 31.7 | 1.3 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
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.
Year by year in Oro-Medonte: down 21%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 31.4 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 24.8 in 2024. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Oro-Medonte | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 24.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 31.4 | 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 Oro-Medonte, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Oro-Medonte comes 3rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 3 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 6 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| 10 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 16 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 Oro-Medonte in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 130 violent incidents a year in the 24,700-resident police area around Oro-Medonte, 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 260 property crimes, plus 97 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Oro-Medonte
Oro-Medonte has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Oro-Medonte’s are shared with its surroundings.
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Oro-Medonte
Is Oro-Medonte safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 27 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Oro-Medonte stands, with 5.4 violent and 10.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Oro-Medonte?
Fraud is the most common, at 3.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (2.9) and assault (2.5).
Is crime going up in Oro-Medonte?
The reverse: 31.4 in 2023 came down to 24.8 by 2025, 21% lower.
How much of Oro-Medonte’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 70% of violent crime and 23% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Oro-Medonte and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).