Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.0South Cameron sees more crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 94.5 and 72.8. Measured on crime the police covering South Cameron reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+: #748 of 862 in Ontario. What’s more, its police logs show 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ the numbers are 10.8 and 25.1.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity and crime rate (the Windsor service area).
What stands out about safety in South Cameron
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, South Cameron moved from 84.3 to 71.5, while the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went 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.
The C+ for South Cameron, and how it is built
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than South Cameron alone.
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.
South Cameron’s index fell 15% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 84.3, and 2025 the lightest at 71.5. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | South Cameron | 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 South Cameron, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime across Windsor, 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 South Cameron
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Cameron | 11,804 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| South Central | 10,392 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Sandwich | 14,110 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| River West | 13,940 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| South Windsor | 15,896 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| City Centre | 10,269 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Remington Park | 5,783 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so South Cameron carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in South Cameron
Is South Cameron safe?
Its police recorded 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives South Cameron a Crime Severity Index of 78.6. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in South Cameron?
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 South Cameron?
The reverse: 84.3 in 2023 came down to 71.5 by 2025, 15% lower.
How much of South Cameron’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 41%: 74% for violent crime and 25% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers 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).