Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Stayner records less crime than 94% of Canadian towns
Its two neighbours with figures both record more crime per resident. Graded on crime the police covering Stayner reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A for safety: #100 of 862 in Ontario. Annual rates stand at 7.3 violent incidents and 14.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Violence accounts for an index of 35.3 and other offences for 30.3, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56.
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 Stayner
Lower than most of Ontario
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 31.5 in Stayner. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Stayner stands 3rd, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Stayner’s two halves part ways: 35.3 for violence (typical 89.4) and 30.3 for the rest (typical 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 Stayner
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.
Stayner’s crime by kind
Theft under $5,000 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 | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 17 | 1.1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.3 | 0.8 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 0.7 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 74.7 | 4.6 | 14% |
| Mischief | 32.3 | 2 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23 | 1.4 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 5 | 0.3 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 22.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
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.
Stayner comes 3rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Almonte Ontario | 16,073 | 28.8 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Stayner Ontario | 16,571 | 31.5 | 35.3 | A |
| 4 | Central Elgin Ontario | 15,230 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 5 | Corunna Ontario | 15,872 | 32.2 | 38.8 | A |
| 6 | Mercier Quebec | 16,036 | 35.9 | 60.1 | A |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Severn Ontario | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Limoges Ontario | 15,122 | 53.9 | 62.3 | B |
| 18 | Smithville Ontario | 16,586 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Sturgeon Falls Ontario | 16,682 | 66.8 | 82.7 | 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 Stayner in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Stayner 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.
Add about 230 property crimes and 76 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
In Stayner, down 6% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 32.9, and its lowest 2025, at 30.8. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stayner | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 30.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 32.9 | 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 Stayner, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Stayner
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stayner | 16,571 | 31.5 | 35.3 | A |
| Wasaga Beach | 28,736 | 50 | 61.1 | B+ |
| Collingwood | 28,366 | 57.8 | 66.4 | B |
The places around Stayner all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Stayner
Is Stayner safe?
Police-reported crime in Stayner scores 31.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 7.3 violent incidents and 14.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Stayner?
Most often it is fraud: 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 4.6 and assault at 3.7.
Is crime going up in Stayner?
The reverse: 32.9 in 2023 came down to 30.8 by 2025, 6% lower.
How much of Stayner’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 38% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 65% of violent and 25% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Stayner and nowhere else.
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).