Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainCrossroads has less crime per resident than three in four Canadian towns
Each of the 3 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident. Crossroads grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Crossroads reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, the yearly rates were 10.1 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 50.7 for violence and 45.3 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Queens District detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Crossroads
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Crossroads stood at 52.3, by 2025 at 43.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear less here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 25% for Crossroads (36% violent, 21% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Prince Edward Island’s typical town
Within Prince Edward Island, the median town comes to 46.7 on the index, against 46.6 in Crossroads. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Crossroads records 7.1 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
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 Crossroads’s grade
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Crossroads, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Crossroads runs highest on mischief (7.1 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault 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 | 14.7 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.7 | 0.3 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 18% |
| Breaking and entering | 41 | 1.3 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.2 | 29% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 105.7 | 3.3 | 9% |
| Mischief | 227.7 | 7.1 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 97.7 | 3 | 67% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31.7 | 1 | 6% |
| Drug violations | 27.3 | 0.8 | 28% |
| Impaired driving | 117.7 | 3.7 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.03 | — |
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 people or more.
In Crossroads, down 18% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (52.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 43.1. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Crossroads | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 52.3 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Crossroads, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Crossroads is part of, 32,800 residents, recorded about 320 violent incidents a year (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 520 a year and other violations 410 (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 Crossroads
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 2,366 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Stratford | 13,152 | 50 | 78.6 | B+ |
| Charlottetown | 48,118 | 86.1 | 87.1 | C |
| North Shore | 1,609 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| East River, Part 1 | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Vernon River | 2,779 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Cornwall | 7,920 | 46.9 | 58 | B+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Crossroads. Its police also cover 3 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Crossroads’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Crossroads
Is Crossroads safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 46.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Crossroads stands, with 10.1 violent and 16.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Crossroads?
Top of the list is mischief (7.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Crossroads?
The reverse: 52.3 in 2023 came down to 43.1 by 2025, 18% lower.
How much of Crossroads’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 36% of violent crime and 21% of everything else, 25% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Crossroads 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).