Photo: Onasill ~ Bill - Be Safe & Happy · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Port Hope than in 94% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 36.4 and its non-violent half to 29.3, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. In a usual year, 8.4 violent incidents and 14.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5. On crime the police covering Port Hope reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety: #100 of 862 in Ontario.
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 Port Hope
Lighter than Ontario’s middle
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 31.2 in Port Hope. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Port Hope stands 4th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Port Hope (78% violent, 35% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Port Hope moved from 25.6 to 31.4, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. 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.
The grade: A for Port Hope
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: #100 of 862 in Ontario and #134 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 Port Hope, 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 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 12.7 | 0.9 | 31% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.3 | 0.5 | 37% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7 | 0.5 | 33% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 96 | 6.7 | 24% |
| Mischief | 35.3 | 2.5 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 71 | 4.9 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 8.7 | 0.6 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 15 | 1 | 95% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
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.
In Port Hope, up 23% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 36.5; 2023 was the lightest, at 25.6. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Port Hope | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 36.5 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 25.6 | 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 Port Hope, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Port Hope is 4th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oak Bay British Columbia | 18,626 | 26.7 | 23.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Petawawa Ontario | 19,606 | 29.3 | 42.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Deux-Montagnes Quebec | 18,516 | 30.8 | 56.8 | A+ |
| 4 | Port Hope Ontario | 18,446 | 31.2 | 36.4 | A |
| 5 | Central Saanich British Columbia | 18,184 | 34.7 | 33.1 | A |
| 6 | Loyalist Ontario | 19,761 | 35.7 | 52.3 | A |
| 7 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire Quebec | 19,447 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Kemptville Ontario | 19,733 | 37.9 | 52.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Bracebridge Ontario | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Port Elgin Ontario | 18,167 | 50.1 | 68.5 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Listowel Ontario | 18,168 | 53 | 54 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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 Port Hope in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Port Hope recorded about 120 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 210 property crimes, plus 130 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 Port Hope
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Port Hope. Just 12 km away, Hamilton comes to 25.7, against 31.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Port Hope
Is Port Hope safe?
Police-reported crime in Port Hope scores 31.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.4 violent incidents and 14.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 66, the median for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Port Hope?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.7 and fraud at 3.5.
Is crime going up in Port Hope?
Up 23%: 25.6 in 2023, 31.4 in 2025.
How much of Port Hope’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 49% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 78% of violent and 35% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
They are Port Hope’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).