Photo: Rick Harris from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Crime per resident in Trent Lakes runs lower than in almost every Canadian town
Violence accounts for an index of 24.8 and other offences for 19.1, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8. Out of every 1,000 residents, 4.3 violent incidents and 6.6 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. On crime the police covering Trent Lakes reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #1 of 862 in Ontario.
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 Trent Lakes
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Trent Lakes, yet 49% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Lower than most of Ontario
The typical Ontario town scores 56.2; Trent Lakes, 20.6. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 54% for Trent Lakes (114% violent, 28% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Rising since 2023
From 16.2 in 2023 to 20.6 in 2025: that is Trent Lakes’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
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 Trent Lakes’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: #1 of 862 in Ontario and #1 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Trent Lakes, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
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 | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 7 | 1 | 4% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5 | 0.7 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12.7 | 1.7 | 10% |
| Mischief | 7 | 1 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 9.3 | 1.3 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Impaired driving | 7.7 | 1.1 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
In Trent Lakes, up 27% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 25, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 16.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Trent Lakes | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 25 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 16.2 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Trent Lakes, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Trent Lakes comes 1st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trent Lakes Ontario | 7,357 | 20.6 | 24.8 | A+ |
| 2 | Shannon Quebec | 7,088 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 3 | L'Ange-Gardien Quebec | 7,068 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| 4 | Colborne Ontario | 7,216 | 30.1 | 41.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Chesley Ontario | 7,639 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| 7 | Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Ontario | 7,052 | 35 | 39.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Wainfleet Ontario | 7,329 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Parry Sound Ontario | 7,584 | 92.2 | 121.3 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Bonnyville Alberta | 7,366 | 285.4 | 211.4 | 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 Trent Lakes in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Trent Lakes’s police: about 31 violent incidents a year over 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 48 property crimes and 26 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Trent Lakes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trent Lakes | 7,357 | 20.6 | 24.8 | A+ |
| Bridgenorth (21 km) | 20,628 | 21.2 | 23.1 | A+ |
| North Kawartha (26 km) | 3,355 | 28.5 | 38.1 | A+ |
| Lindsay (27 km) | 85,351 | 31.7 | 42.8 | A |
Trent Lakes has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 21–27 km from Trent Lakes.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. 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 Trent Lakes
Is Trent Lakes safe?
Trent Lakes’s Crime Severity Index is 20.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 4.3 violent incidents and 6.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Trent Lakes?
Top of the list is assault (2.4 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 2.1, and fraud, at 1.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Trent Lakes?
Up 27%: 16.2 in 2023, 20.6 in 2025.
How much of Trent Lakes’s crime do police solve?
About 54% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 114% of violent and 28% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Trent Lakes’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).