Photo: Community Archives · CC0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Tweed than in 74% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Tweed reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety: #249 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 8.5 violent incidents and 15.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 68 and 38.7.
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. Measured across the Central Hastings detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Tweed
A high clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Tweed’s police clear 50%, 78% of violent crime and 30% of the rest. Questions ↓
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Tweed moved from 46.1 to 37.6, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Tweed is 15th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Near the Ontario middle
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Tweed scores 46.8. 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.
The grade: B+ for Tweed
How sure: Less sure, as Tweed has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 32 km away.
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: #249 of 862 in Ontario and #455 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.
What police record in Tweed, by type
Against the typical town its size, Tweed runs highest on sexual assault (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.9). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 5 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.3 | 1.7 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 21.7 | 1.1 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.5 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73 | 3.8 | 17% |
| Mischief | 60.7 | 3.1 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 58 | 3 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 0.3 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 13.3 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Impaired driving | 29.3 | 1.5 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4 | 0.2 | — |
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 Tweed, down 19% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (56.7) and 2025 the trough (37.6). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Tweed | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 56.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 46.1 | 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 Tweed, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 160 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Tweed (19,500 residents), 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 150 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
By its index, Tweed stands 15th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Lucan Ontario | 6,827 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 3 | Glencoe Ontario | 6,468 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Lanark Highlands Ontario | 6,370 | 33.1 | 38.8 | A |
| 8 | Mildmay Ontario | 6,247 | 33.7 | 38.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Beauceville Quebec | 6,228 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 13 | Peachland British Columbia | 6,302 | 44.1 | 39.2 | A− |
| 14 | Neepawa Manitoba | 6,328 | 45.8 | 46.8 | A− |
| 15 | Tweed Ontario | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| 16 | Ste. Anne Manitoba | 6,387 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| 17 | Plessisville Quebec | 6,774 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| 18 | Princeville Quebec | 6,400 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Tweed in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Tweed
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweed | 6,504 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Centre Hastings | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| Madoc | 2,467 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Tweed
Is Tweed safe?
Police-reported crime in Tweed scores 46.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.5 violent incidents and 15.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Tweed?
Fraud is the most common, at 5 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (4.4) and assault (3.9).
Is crime going up in Tweed?
The reverse: 46.1 in 2023 came down to 37.6 by 2025, 19% lower.
How much of Tweed’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 78% of violent crime and 30% of everything else, 50% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Tweed and everywhere else it polices.
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).