Photo: Dwrite7841 · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Port Perry than in 75% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 61.4 and other offences for 39.9, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Port Perry reported put it at A− for safety: #234 of 862 in Ontario. Add to that, for every 1,000 residents, 7.9 violent incidents and 20.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.0 and 30.5. By 2025 the index had dropped to 43.2, down from 47 in 2023.
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. Shared with the rest of the Durham Region (Oshawa/Whitby/Ajax) service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Port Perry
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Port Perry stands 17th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
About the Ontario norm
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 45.8 in Port Perry. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 42% of crime in Port Perry ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 55% of violent crime and 35% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Port Perry’s A− for safety
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: #234 of 862 in Ontario and #432 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 Port Perry’s figures
Break and enter and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 10.7 | 0.01 | 78% |
| Sexual violations against children | 118.7 | 0.2 | 61% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 92.7 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 68.3 | 0.09 | 41% |
| Robbery | 303 | 0.4 | 49% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 24 | 0.03 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 106.3 | 0.1 | 53% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,113.7 | 1.4 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 152.3 | 0.2 | 89% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1,359.7 | 1.7 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 256.3 | 0.3 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 7,521.7 | 9.5 | 24% |
| Mischief | 2,015.3 | 2.6 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 122.3 | 0.2 | 88% |
| Administration of justice violations | 5,130.7 | 6.5 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 249.3 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Drug violations | 551.7 | 0.7 | 93% |
| Impaired driving | 813.3 | 1 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 153 | 0.2 | 18% |
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.
Port Perry, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (47.2) and 2025 the trough (43.2). 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 Perry | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 47.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 47 | 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 Perry, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
810,100 residents, about 6,230 violent incidents a year: the police area Port Perry belongs to, 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 16,100 property crimes, plus 7,580 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Among 40 towns its size, Port Perry places 17th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 4 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 15 | Saint-Lazare Quebec | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 16 | Candiac Quebec | 24,920 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 17 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 18 | Uxbridge Ontario | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| 19 | Huntsville Ontario | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | B+ |
| 20 | Colwood British Columbia | 22,794 | 49.8 | 63.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 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 Port Perry in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Port Perry
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Perry | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| Uxbridge (18 km) | 22,618 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| Oshawa (24 km) | 213,592 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| Whitby (24 km) | 162,413 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| Bowmanville (29 km) | 114,180 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Port Perry has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 18–29 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared policing. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Port Perry included.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Port Perry
Is Port Perry safe?
The short answer is an index of 45.8 for Port Perry (2023–2025), built from 7.9 violent incidents and 20.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Set that beside 66, the median for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Port Perry?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 9.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7.3) and fraud (4.6).
Is crime going up in Port Perry?
It went down 8% between 2023 and 2025, from 47 to 43.2.
How much of Port Perry’s crime do police solve?
42%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 55% and non-violent crime at 35%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Port Perry together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).