Photo: Nelro2 · Public domainRockwood has less crime per resident than 96% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 4.9 violent incidents and 13.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 28.2 for violence and 29.6 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). Measured on crime the police covering Rockwood reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A+: #74 of 862 in Ontario. On top of that, by 2025 the index had dropped to 28.2, down from 30 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Wellington County detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rockwood
Below Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Rockwood scores 29. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Rockwood is 3rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Rockwood’s index splits into violent crime, 28.2 here and 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 29.6 against 56. By type ↓
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 Rockwood
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: #74 of 862 in Ontario and #94 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.
What police record in Rockwood, by type
Assault 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 | 13.3 | 0.1 | 70% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9 | 0.09 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.7 | 0.07 | 69% |
| Breaking and entering | 124.3 | 1.2 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 122 | 1.2 | 12% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 72.7 | 0.7 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 430 | 4.1 | 17% |
| Mischief | 240.7 | 2.3 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 20.7 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 124.7 | 1.2 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 38.7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 30 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Impaired driving | 89.7 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 11 | 0.1 | 15% |
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.
Rockwood is 3rd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| 3 | Rockwood Ontario | 14,870 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Mount Forest Ontario | 14,407 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 5 | Val-des-Monts Quebec | 14,473 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 6 | Central Elgin Ontario | 15,230 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Long Sault Ontario | 14,602 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 9 | South Glengarry Ontario | 14,355 | 36.9 | 47.2 | A |
| 10 | Campbellford Ontario | 15,103 | 37 | 48.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Severn Ontario | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Rockwood in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 520 violent incidents a year across the police area of 106,900 residents that includes Rockwood, 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.
Property crime adds about 1,440 a year and other violations 420 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Rockwood, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 30, and 2025 the lightest at 28.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Rockwood | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 28.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 30 | 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 Rockwood, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Rockwood
A neighbour policed by the same service carries the same figure, so it isn’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Rockwood is one part.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Rockwood
Is Rockwood safe?
Rockwood scores 29 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 4.9 violent incidents and 13.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Rockwood?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 4.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4) and assault (2.3).
Is crime going up in Rockwood?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 30 to 28.2.
How much of Rockwood’s crime do police solve?
About 35% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 69% of violent and 22% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Rockwood 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).