Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0Per resident, South Walkerville records more crime than 65% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 11.9 violent incidents and 39.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Split in two, the index gives 94.5 for violence and 72.8 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). On the record of crime the police covering South Walkerville reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety: #748 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. Area-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the Windsor service area.
What stands out about safety in South Walkerville
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in South Walkerville stood at 84.3, by 2025 at 71.5. Over the same years 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.
Inside South Walkerville’s C+ for safety
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so South Walkerville’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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.
In South Walkerville, down 15% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 84.3; the lightest was 2025, at 71.5. Set beside it, 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 Walkerville | 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 Walkerville, 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), theft under $5,000 (19.9 per 1,000 against 11.5) and mischief (5.3 per 1,000 against 3.8).
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 Walkerville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Walkerville | 6,129 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Remington Park | 5,783 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| South Central | 10,392 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Walkerville | 19,541 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| East Windsor | 20,876 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Fontainebleau | 11,567 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| Devonshire | 9,852 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
The table leaves out 6 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
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “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 South Walkerville carries the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in South Walkerville
Is South Walkerville 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 South Walkerville stands, with 11.9 violent and 39.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in South Walkerville?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 19.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7) and assault (6.8).
Is crime going up in South Walkerville?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 84.3 to 71.5.
How much of South Walkerville’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?
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).