Photo: WolfFang1990 · CC BY-SA 4.0Timmins sees more crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Timmins reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #831 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 27.0 violent incidents and 51.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Violence accounts for an index of 170.4 and other offences for 107.1, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Steady over the three years, the index read 131.4 in 2023 and 126.1 in 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 Timmins
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Timmins records 6.2 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Over the Ontario norm
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Timmins, 124.5. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the typical clearance rate is 33%; Timmins’s police clear 52%, 77% of violent crime and 37% of the rest. Questions ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Timmins comes 35th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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.
Inside Timmins’s D for safety
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: #831 of 862 in Ontario and #2,281 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 Timmins, by type
Against the typical town its size, Timmins runs highest on break and enter (6.2 per 1,000 against 2.2), sexual assault (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.8) and theft under $5,000 (27.7 per 1,000 against 11.8). Motor vehicle theft sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 18.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 35.7 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 31 | 0.7 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 9.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Other violent violations | 12.7 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Breaking and entering | 278.3 | 6.2 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 0.2 | 91% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 44.7 | 1 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 29.7 | 0.7 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,247 | 27.7 | 14% |
| Mischief | 299.3 | 6.7 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 50.7 | 1.1 | 62% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,097.7 | 24.4 | 100% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 42.3 | 0.9 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 36.7 | 0.8 | 99% |
| Impaired driving | 56.7 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
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.
Timmins is 35th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeshore Ontario | 45,954 | 26.8 | 29 | A+ |
| 3 | Bradford Ontario | 51,346 | 32.5 | 41.8 | A |
| 4 | Innisfil Ontario | 50,686 | 32.5 | 41.8 | A |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Orillia Ontario | 37,735 | 98.5 | 146.3 | C− |
| 33 | Cornwall Ontario | 54,346 | 104.5 | 126.4 | C− |
| 34 | Mission British Columbia | 47,280 | 114.1 | 134.5 | C− |
| 35 | Timmins Ontario | 45,569 | 124.5 | 170.4 | D |
| 36 | Rocky View County Alberta | 50,260 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| 37 | Vernon British Columbia | 49,527 | 145.1 | 141.2 | D |
| 38 | Campbell River British Columbia | 38,300 | 162.9 | 166.6 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Timmins in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Timmins recorded about 1,210 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 2,310 property crimes and 1,380 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Timmins, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 131.4, against a low of 115.8 in 2024. 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 | Timmins | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 126.1 | 60 |
| 2024 | 115.8 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 131.4 | 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 Timmins, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Timmins
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timmins | 45,569 | 124.5 | 170.4 | D |
| Black River-Matheson (63 km) | 2,899 | 97.4 | 171.6 | C− |
| Cochrane (69 km) | 5,948 | 145.5 | 191 | D |
| Smooth Rock Falls (91 km) | 1,259 | 69.8 | 138.7 | C+ |
| Kirkland Lake (102 km) | 8,158 | 170.1 | 271.7 | D |
| Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part (113 km) | 3,606 | 97.4 | 171.6 | C− |
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 3 come in under Timmins. Closest is Black River-Matheson, 62.8 km away, at 97.4 to 124.5 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 63–113 km from Timmins.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Timmins
Is Timmins safe?
Timmins scores 124.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 27 violent incidents and 51.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Timmins?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (27.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 27.5, and assault, at 15.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Timmins?
The index stayed close to where it was, 131.4 in 2023 and 126.1 in 2025.
How much of Timmins’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 52% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 77% of violent crime and 37% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
They are Timmins’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).