Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Tecumseh records less crime than 97% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index climbed from 26.8 in 2023 to 30 by 2025. Even so, it grades A+ for safety on crime the police covering Tecumseh reported from 2023 to 2025: #64 of 862 in Ontario. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 26.6 and 30.1. Violence and property crime split as 4.2 violent incidents and 17.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 Tecumseh
Lower than most of Ontario
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Tecumseh scores 28.9. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Tecumseh is 4th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Tecumseh’s index splits into violent crime, 26.6 here and 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 30.1 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.
Tecumseh: A+ for safety, and why
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: #64 of 862 in Ontario and #72 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 Tecumseh, by type
Motor vehicle theft and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 35 | 1.4 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 27.3 | 1.1 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 19.3 | 0.8 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 175.7 | 6.9 | 21% |
| Mischief | 66 | 2.6 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 18 | 0.7 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 2 | 0.08 | — |
| Impaired driving | 22.7 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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.
By its index, Tecumseh stands 4th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Embrun Ontario | 23,655 | 26.9 | 39.7 | A+ |
| 3 | Oro-Medonte Ontario | 24,681 | 27 | 31.5 | A+ |
| 4 | Tecumseh Ontario | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Kingsville Ontario | 25,302 | 29.8 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 6 | Angus Ontario | 26,036 | 33.2 | 50.9 | A |
| 7 | Picton Ontario | 27,544 | 35.5 | 50.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| 11 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Port Perry Ontario | 23,928 | 45.8 | 61.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Huntsville Ontario | 23,948 | 48.2 | 68.1 | 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 Tecumseh in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 110 violent incidents a year reached Tecumseh’s police, 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 430 a year and other violations 67 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Tecumseh, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 30 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 26.8. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Tecumseh | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | 60 |
| 2024 | 29.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 26.8 | 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 Tecumseh, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Tecumseh
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tecumseh | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| East Riverside | 15,758 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Forest Glade | 21,328 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Riverside | 21,828 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Fontainebleau | 11,567 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| East Windsor | 20,876 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Devonshire | 9,852 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Tecumseh.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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.
- What the index measures. 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 Tecumseh
Is Tecumseh safe?
The short answer is an index of 28.9 for Tecumseh (2023–2025), built from 4.2 violent incidents and 17 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Tecumseh?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (6.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4.1, and mischief, at 2.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Tecumseh?
It went up 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 26.8 to 30.
How much of Tecumseh’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (72% of violent crime, 22% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Tecumseh alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).