Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Point Edward than in 71% of Canadian towns
The Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crime the police covering Point Edward reported through 2023 to 2025. Police clear 42% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. What’s more, for every 1,000 residents, 9.0 violent incidents and 29.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Violence accounts for an index of 123.4 and other offences for 70.6, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8.
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 Point Edward
Over the Ontario norm
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Point Edward scores 85.1. 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 C for Point Edward, and how it is built
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Point Edward, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Point Edward runs highest on break and enter (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.5). Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9.7 | 4.7 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 2.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 27 | 13.2 | 11% |
| Mischief | 8.7 | 4.3 | 3% |
| Weapons violations | 0.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 3 | 1.5 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Drug violations | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 2.7 | 1.3 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 people or more.
Police in Point Edward recorded about 18 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 61 property crimes and 14 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Point Edward’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 123.6, with 2024 the lightest at 52.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Point Edward | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 123.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 52.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 79.5 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Point Edward, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Point Edward
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Point Edward. Sarnia, 3.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 79.4 to 85.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A small police area. The police behind these figures serve about 1,989 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. 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 Point Edward
Is Point Edward safe?
The short answer is an index of 85.1 for Point Edward (2023–2025), built from 9 violent incidents and 29.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Point Edward?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (13.2 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 4.8, and break and enter, at 4.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Point Edward?
It has: 79.5 in 2023 became 123.6 by 2025, a rise of 56%. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Point Edward’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 42%: 85% for violent crime and 20% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Point Edward’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).