Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Smooth Rock Falls sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 69.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. On top of that, for every 1,000 residents, 26.4 violent incidents and 14.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Its letter overall is C+: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025.
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 Smooth Rock Falls
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Smooth Rock Falls’s two halves part ways: 138.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 42.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 65% of Smooth Rock Falls’s crime, weighted by seriousness (88% of violent crime, 35% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Assault: high for a town its size
Smooth Rock Falls records 12.8 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Smooth Rock Falls scores 69.8. 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.
What sits behind Smooth Rock Falls’s C+
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.
Smooth Rock Falls’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Smooth Rock Falls runs highest on assault (12.8 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 2.7 | 2.1 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 5 | 3.9 | 26% |
| Mischief | 4.3 | 3.4 | — |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 7 | 5.5 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1 | 0.8 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.3 | 1.8 | — |
| Impaired driving | 1.3 | 1 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
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.
Around 34 violent incidents a year on Smooth Rock Falls’s police records (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 18 property crimes, plus 14 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Smooth Rock Falls’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 77.4; the lightest was 2025, at 61.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Smooth Rock Falls | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 77.4 | 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 Smooth Rock Falls, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Smooth Rock Falls
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smooth Rock Falls | 1,259 | 69.8 | 138.7 | C+ |
| Cochrane (49 km) | 5,948 | 145.5 | 191 | D |
| Kapuskasing (59 km) | 8,825 | 105.6 | 172.8 | C− |
| Timmins (91 km) | 45,569 | 124.5 | 170.4 | D |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Smooth Rock Falls.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 49–91 km from Smooth Rock Falls.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 1,259 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Smooth Rock Falls
Is Smooth Rock Falls safe?
The short answer is an index of 69.8 for Smooth Rock Falls (2023–2025), built from 26.4 violent incidents and 14.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Smooth Rock Falls?
Top of the list is assault (12.8 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.3, and fraud, at 4.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Smooth Rock Falls?
The reverse: 77.4 in 2023 came down to 61.5 by 2025, 21% lower. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Smooth Rock Falls’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 65% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 88% of violent and 35% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
They are Smooth Rock Falls’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).