Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Terrace Bay records less crime than 83% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 53.6 and other offences for 37.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Graded on crime the police covering Terrace Bay reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A− for safety. Police counts work out at 12.1 violent incidents and 13.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Terrace Bay
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 57% for Terrace Bay (81% violent, 45% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Lower than most of Ontario
Within Ontario, the median town comes to 56.2 on the index, against 41.7 in Terrace Bay. 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 Terrace Bay’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
About 19 violent incidents a year reached Terrace Bay’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.
And about 22 property crimes, plus 12 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in Terrace Bay, type by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0 | 0 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 2.3 | 1.5 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 4.7 | 3 | — |
| Mischief | 5 | 3.2 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 6.7 | 4.2 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Impaired driving | 2.3 | 1.5 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Terrace Bay’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 56.2; 2025 was the lightest, at 31.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Terrace Bay | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 56.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.8 | 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 Terrace Bay, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Terrace Bay
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace Bay | 1,553 | 41.7 | 53.6 | A− |
| Marathon (54 km) | 3,223 | 74.7 | 120.7 | C+ |
| Nipigon (89 km) | 1,624 | 81.8 | 114.4 | C |
| Manitouwadge (100 km) | 2,052 | 92.4 | 166.1 | C |
| Geraldton (105 km) | 4,398 | 198.8 | 261.9 | D |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Terrace Bay.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Terrace Bay has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 54–105 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Read with care. About 1,553 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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 Terrace Bay
Is Terrace Bay safe?
The short answer is an index of 41.7 for Terrace Bay (2023–2025), built from 12.1 violent incidents and 13.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Terrace Bay?
Top of the list is assault (5.9 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.1, and fraud, at 5.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Terrace Bay?
No: the index fell 18%, from 37.8 in 2023 to 31.2 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Terrace Bay’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 57% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 81% of violent and 45% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
They are Terrace Bay’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).