Photo: P. James Franks · CC BY-SA 3.0Temiskaming Shores sees more crime per resident than 66% of Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Temiskaming Shores reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C for safety: #768 of 862 in Ontario. A Crime Severity Index of 78.8, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 66 for the typical Canadian town its size. Police counts work out at 18.2 violent incidents and 29.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.0 and 30.5. Its two neighbours with figures both record less crime per resident.
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 Temiskaming Shores
Sexual assault: high for a town its size
Temiskaming Shores records 1.8 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 57% for Temiskaming Shores (84% violent, 42% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Temiskaming Shores moved from 88.1 to 67.6, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Temiskaming Shores is 32nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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’s behind Temiskaming Shores’s grade
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: #768 of 862 in Ontario and #1,630 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.
In Temiskaming Shores, down 23% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 88.1, and its lowest 2025, at 67.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Temiskaming Shores | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.6 | 60 |
| 2024 | 80.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 88.1 | 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 Temiskaming Shores, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Temiskaming Shores, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Temiskaming Shores runs highest on sexual assault (1.8 per 1,000 against 0.8), drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.8) and mischief (6.6 per 1,000 against 3.7). 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 | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32 | 3.1 | 30% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.6 | 82% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 1.8 | 38% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.6 | 22% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97 | 9.5 | 33% |
| Mischief | 67.3 | 6.6 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 8 | 0.8 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 163.3 | 16 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.3 | 0.8 | 33% |
| Drug violations | 15.7 | 1.5 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 16.7 | 1.6 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Temiskaming Shores places 32nd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Palmerston Ontario | 10,029 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 6 | Thamesford Ontario | 9,755 | 30.7 | 22.5 | A+ |
| 7 | Malahide Ontario | 9,995 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Roberval Quebec | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 30 | Bridgewater Nova Scotia | 9,989 | 77.2 | 99.5 | C+ |
| 31 | Ladysmith British Columbia | 9,926 | 77.3 | 70.2 | C+ |
| 32 | Temiskaming Shores Ontario | 10,144 | 78.8 | 97.1 | C |
| 33 | Taber Alberta | 10,175 | 84.8 | 74.7 | C |
| 34 | Olds Alberta | 9,653 | 85.6 | 86.2 | C |
| 35 | Kitimat British Columbia | 10,019 | 100.8 | 107.1 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Wheatland County Alberta | 10,150 | 298.8 | 486.4 | 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 Temiskaming Shores in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 190 violent incidents a year reached Temiskaming Shores’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 300 a year and other violations 230 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Temiskaming Shores
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temiskaming Shores | 10,144 | 78.8 | 97.1 | C |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues | 1,197 | 82.9 | 130.7 | C |
| Notre-Dame-du-Nord | 1,081 | 82.9 | 130.7 | C |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Temiskaming Shores.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Temiskaming Shores
Is Temiskaming Shores safe?
Its police recorded 18.2 violent incidents and 29.3 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Temiskaming Shores a Crime Severity Index of 78.8. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, the median is 66.
What is the most common crime in Temiskaming Shores?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 18.6, theft under $5,000 at 9.5 and assault at 8.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Temiskaming Shores?
Down 23%: 88.1 in 2023, 67.6 in 2025.
How much of Temiskaming Shores’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 57% of crime (84% of violent crime, 42% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Temiskaming Shores 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).