Safest Cities in Canada — Ranked by Crime Severity Index

Q: Why show CMSS alongside CSI?

CSI is annual with a ~12 month lag; CMSS updates from municipal open data for recency and neighbourhood-level detail.

Q: Why are some cities in a separate table?

Statistics Canada only publishes CSI for CMAs and larger police services. Smaller municipalities are ranked by CMSS separately.

Halton Region

Lowest CSI city

CSI 35.3 · ON

35.3

Best CSI (2024)

Lower is safer

20

Below Canada baseline

CSI under 100

30

CSI-published cities

3 more by CMSS only

City ranking — lowest CSI (2024)

Default: overall CSI ascending (StatCan 2024) Click a column header to sort CMSS & open-data incidents use a ~2-year municipal feed window — not StatCan UCR. Thin feeds show CMSS 0.
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1	Halton Region Halton Regional Police	ON	35.3	43.5	39	4,751	666,454
2	Durham Region Durham Regional Police	ON	47.1	64.4	23	5,083	809,930
3	Sherbrooke CMA-level; Service de police de Sherbrooke serves most of the CMA	QC	53.9	—	59	7,295	184,135
4	York Region York Regional Police	ON	53.9	70.8	167	84,777	1,298,924
5	Ottawa Ottawa Police Service	ON	55.8	67.4	139	80,610	1,188,114
6	Guelph Guelph Police Service	ON	56.0	77.6	41	1,369	160,760
7	Peel Regional Police serves Brampton and Mississauga — StatCan CSI is shared. 2 municipalities · shared CSI	ON	56.4	80.2	67	29,785	1,542,356
	Brampton Peel Region amalgamated value; Brampton and Mississauga share Peel Regional Police Member of Peel Region	ON	56.4	80.2	27	3,890	777,759
	Mississauga Peel Region amalgamated value; Brampton and Mississauga share Peel Regional Police Member of Peel Region	ON	56.4	80.2	107	25,895	764,597
8	Gatineau CMA-level QC part; Gatineau Police serves the QC portion	QC	61.1	—	73	8,693	306,105
9	Peterborough CMA-level; Peterborough Police serves most of the CMA	ON	61.3	—	178	4,469	97,834
10	London London Police Service	ON	65.9	81.8	39	5,983	494,785
11	Burnaby Burnaby RCMP	BC	67.5	60.8	0	2,335	299,682
12	Toronto Toronto Police Service	ON	68.7	99.8	92	77,063	3,271,830
13	Victoria CMA-level; Victoria Police serves the core municipality only	BC	71.0	—	80	3,961	103,888
14	Waterloo Region Waterloo Regional Police	ON	72.7	91.4	42	5,980	711,457
15	Halifax Halifax Regional Police	NS	74.2	94.5	18	1,905	516,822
16	Montreal Service de police de la Ville de Montréal	QC	75.7	112.5	35	8,819	1,915,366
17	CSI profile shared for Langley Township RCMP / adjacent mapped detachments. 2 municipalities · shared CSI	BC	78.5	80.0	0	8,927	269,810
	Langley Langley Township RCMP Member of Langley Township area	BC	78.5	80.0	0	2,974	163,885
	Maple Ridge Mapped from Langley Township; adjacent RCMP detachments with similar profiles Member of Langley Township area	BC	78.5	80.0	0	5,953	105,925
18	Windsor Windsor Police Service	ON	80.3	96.3	216	22,216	229,660

Smaller cities without published CSI

Not comparable to the CSI table. These places are ranked by CMSS from municipal open data (covered-city average ≈ 100).

Smaller cities ranked ascending by CMSS — not directly comparable to CSI Click a column header to sort
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1	Pitt Meadows 2013–2026, 7,598 incidents	BC	66	1,274	20,892	2026
2	Cornwall 2025, 4,758 incidents	ON	75	2,064	54,346	2025
3	Prince George 2021–2026, 23,980 incidents	BC	160	7,862	85,944	2026

2026 year-to-date (preliminary CMSS)

2026 year-to-date CMSS — preliminary (partial-year data) Click a column header to sort
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1	Coquitlam 2021–2026, 3,030 incidents	BC	4	141	81
2	Chatham-Kent 2025–2026, 4,282 incidents	ON	6	180	160
3	Surrey 2026, 1,641 incidents	BC	8	1,641	233
4	Calgary 2024, 2,009 incidents	AB	9	2,009	125
5	Pitt Meadows 2013–2026, 7,598 incidents	BC	10	128	613
6	Hamilton 2026, 839 incidents	ON	14	839	131
7	Halifax 2026, 1,905 incidents	NS	18	1,905	369
8	Richmond 2012–2026, 20,027 incidents	BC	18	805	336
9	South Simcoe 2026, 396 incidents	ON	20	396	388
10	Burnaby 2025–2026, 3,465 incidents	BC	23	1,130	377
11	Saugeen Shores 2026, 866 incidents	ON	24	155	853
12	Halton Region 2025–2026, 25,658 incidents	ON	26	3,082	462
13	Langley 2018–2026, 23,948 incidents	BC	26	1,035	632
14	Sherbrooke 2022–2026, 16,101 incidents	QC	26	1,611	875
15	Brampton 2026, 3,890 incidents	ON	27	3,890	500
16	Durham Region 2008–2026, 9,107 incidents	ON	27	3,051	377
17	Cobourg 2026, 2,030 incidents	ON	31	289	1,283
18	Stratford 2026, 258 incidents	ON	31	258	715
19	Montreal 2026, 8,819 incidents	QC	35	8,819	460
20	Gatineau 2022–2026, 20,025 incidents	QC	39	2,300	751

How the ranking works

Primary sort uses Statistics Canada CSI (Tables 35-10-0026-01 / 35-10-0063-01), updated annually — lower CSI is safer. CMSS is our companion metric from municipal open data. Populations use 2025 StatCan postcensal estimates (2021 Census boundaries). Full detail: methodology.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Crime Severity Index (CSI)?

Statistics Canada's official measure of police-reported crime severity. Each offence is weighted by the average sentence length handed down by Canadian courts — a homicide has a weight over 8,000 while minor theft has a weight around 37. The weighted total is divided by population and scaled so Canada 2006 = 100. Lower CSI = less severity-weighted crime per capita.

Why show CMSS alongside CSI?

CSI is published annually with a ~12 month lag. Our CMSS updates from municipal open data as frequently as daily, so it reflects more recent trends. CMSS also lets us compute neighbourhood-level scores below the CMA level StatCan publishes. The two metrics use the same formula shape but cover different time windows and geographies.

Why are some cities in a separate table?

Statistics Canada only publishes CSI for Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) and larger police services. Smaller municipalities appear in a second table ranked by our CMSS, because CSI and CMSS are not directly comparable across different geographies and time windows.