Photo: TheWxResearcher · CC0Crime in Windsor scores 30% higher than in the typical Canadian town its size
Each of the 6 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident. By contrast, the local count comes to 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 94.5 and other offences to 72.8, beside norms 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.
What stands out about safety in Windsor
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Windsor records 4.1 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Windsor scores 78.6. Towns its size ↓
Down since 2023
Windsor’s index went from 84.3 in 2023 to 71.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 64.3 to 59.2. 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.
Before the grade: Windsor’s figures
No grade yet for this town: Canadian grades are set in a single national run that is still to come.
Crime Severity Index
Violent crime index
Non-violent crime index
Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, 2023–2025 means. City neighbourhoods count, each with its city’s figure; city totals and reserves don’t.
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 Windsor: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 84.3, and its lowest 2025, at 71.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Windsor | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Windsor, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Windsor’s crime by kind
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 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 50,000 people or more.
Around 3,470 violent incidents a year on Windsor’s police records (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 11,500 a year and other violations 2,650 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Windsor
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor | 269,614 | 78.6 | 94.5 | — |
| South Walkerville | 6,129 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Remington Park | 5,783 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Fontainebleau | 11,567 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Walkerville | 19,541 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| East Windsor | 20,876 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| South Central | 10,392 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
The places around Windsor all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Windsor
Is Windsor safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 78.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Windsor stands, with 11.9 violent and 39.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Windsor?
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 Windsor?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 84.3 to 71.5.
How much of Windsor’s crime do police solve?
41%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 74% and non-violent crime at 25%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Windsor and nowhere else.
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). 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).