Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0East Riverside has more crime per resident than 65% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering East Riverside reported put it at C+ for safety: #748 of 862 in Ontario. Behind the grade sit 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Violence accounts for an index of 94.5 and other offences for 72.8, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2.
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. Measured across the Windsor service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in East Riverside
Less severe than in 2023
From 84.3 in 2023 to 71.5 in 2025: that is East Riverside’s index, against 64.3 and 59.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. 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 East Riverside’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for East Riverside on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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: #748 of 862 in Ontario and #1,604 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Year by year in East Riverside: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (84.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 71.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | East Riverside | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.5 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 79.8 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 84.3 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering East Riverside, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Windsor’s crime, type by type
These are Windsor’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Windsor runs highest on break and enter (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.2), robbery (0.6 per 1,000 against 0.4) and theft under $5,000 (19.9 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 3.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 82.7 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 58.3 | 0.2 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 50 | 0.2 | 51% |
| Robbery | 185.3 | 0.6 | 63% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 47.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Other violent violations | 53 | 0.2 | 72% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,184.3 | 4.1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 130.3 | 0.4 | 88% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 687 | 2.4 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 133.7 | 0.5 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 5,783.7 | 19.9 | 12% |
| Mischief | 1,554.3 | 5.3 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 82.7 | 0.3 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,731.3 | 5.9 | 91% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 160.3 | 0.6 | 44% |
| Drug violations | 119 | 0.4 | 74% |
| Impaired driving | 258 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 11 | 0.04 | 64% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Crime in the places around East Riverside
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Riverside | 15,758 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Forest Glade | 21,328 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Riverside | 21,828 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Tecumseh | 25,554 | 28.9 | 26.6 | A+ |
| Fontainebleau | 11,567 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| East Windsor | 20,876 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| South Walkerville | 6,129 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
Sharing its police with 5 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so East Riverside carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in East Riverside
Is East Riverside safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for East Riverside comes to 78.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 property crimes. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in East Riverside?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (19.9 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7, and assault, at 6.8, follow.
Is crime going up in East Riverside?
No: the index fell 15%, from 84.3 in 2023 to 71.5 in 2025.
How much of East Riverside’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 41% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 74% of violent and 25% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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).