What do the per-category rates mean?

Annualized incidents per 1,000 residents from complete months of live municipal open data.

Is this the same as a news top-10 list?

Often no — metrics and years differ. CSI is StatCan official; rates are live open-data annualized figures.

Most Dangerous Cities in Canada 2026

Q: What is the Crime Severity Index (CSI)?

Statistics Canada's official police-reported crime severity measure, weighted by average sentence lengths. Canada 2006 = 100.

Q: Why default sort by Violent CSI?

Overall CSI can be driven by property crime; Violent CSI better matches common safety questions. Columns are sortable.

Q: Why is my city ranked high?

Higher violent crime rates drive higher Violent CSI because violent offences carry the largest weights. See neighbourhood breakdowns on city pages.

How we rank Canada’s most dangerous cities

This page ranks Canadian cities two ways: Statistics Canada Violent CSI (2024) for official severity-weighted violence, and annualized open-data rates per 1,000 residents (Jan–Jul 2026) for recent municipal feeds. They answer different questions and can disagree.

Thunder Bay (ON) leads this build’s Violent CSI table at 218.7 (StatCan 2024), followed by Saskatoon (SK) (159.8) and Regina (SK) (136.9). Among live open-data feeds, Georgina (ON) currently shows the highest annualized assault rate (10.31 per 1,000; Jan–Jul 2026). Medicine Hat (AB) has the highest combined open-data rate (290.90 per 1,000) in the same window.

Coverage: 34 cities with StatCan CSI and 61 live rate feeds. A high city-wide index does not mean every neighbourhood is equally unsafe — use each city map for where incidents concentrate. This is not a live 911 or police CAD feed. Missing categories show as “—” (not published), not zero. See also safest cities, CSI explained, and methodology.

Georgina

Highest assault rate

10.31 / 1k · ON

Medicine Hat

Highest total rate

290.90 / 1k · AB

Top 10 by Violent CSI (2024)

01 Thunder Bay ON Violent CSI 218.7 113.8 CSI 2024 02 Saskatoon SK Violent CSI 159.8 117.5 CSI 2024 03 Regina SK Violent CSI 136.9 104.7 CSI 2024 04 Edmonton AB Violent CSI 122.0 109.3 CSI 2024 05 Montreal QC Violent CSI 112.5 75.7 CSI 2024 06 Greater Sudbury ON Violent CSI 108.5 67.1 CSI 2024 07 Toronto ON Violent CSI 99.8 68.7 CSI 2024 08 Abbotsford BC Violent CSI 98.1 92.0 CSI 2024 09 Windsor ON Violent CSI 96.3 80.3 CSI 2024 10 Halifax NS Violent CSI 94.5 74.2 CSI 2024

Highest Violent CSI (2024) among cities with a published StatCan value:

1. Thunder Bay (ON) — Violent CSI 218.7
2. Saskatoon (SK) — Violent CSI 159.8
3. Regina (SK) — Violent CSI 136.9
4. Edmonton (AB) — Violent CSI 122.0
5. Montreal (QC) — Violent CSI 112.5
6. Greater Sudbury (ON) — Violent CSI 108.5
7. Toronto (ON) — Violent CSI 99.8
8. Abbotsford (BC) — Violent CSI 98.1
9. Windsor (ON) — Violent CSI 96.3
10. Halifax (NS) — Violent CSI 94.5

CSI is severity-weighted crime per capita (Canada 2006 = 100), not a live map count. Neighbourhood risk varies — open a city map for local detail.

Full CSI ranking ↓

City ranking — StatCan CSI (2024)

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1	Thunder Bay ⚠ Thunder Bay Police Service	ON	113.8	218.7	117,671
2	Saskatoon Saskatoon Police Service	SK	117.5	159.8	318,067
3	Regina Regina Police Service	SK	104.7	136.9	263,419
4	Edmonton Edmonton Police Service	AB	109.3	122.0	1,238,295
5	Montreal ⚠ Service de police de la Ville de Montréal	QC	75.7	112.5	1,915,366
6	Greater Sudbury ⚠ Greater Sudbury Police Service	ON	67.1	108.5	188,504
7	Toronto Toronto Police Service	ON	68.7	99.8	3,271,830
8	Abbotsford ⚠ Abbotsford Police Service	BC	92.0	98.1	175,358
9	Windsor Windsor Police Service	ON	80.3	96.3	269,614
10	Halifax Halifax Regional Police	NS	74.2	94.5	516,822
11	Brantford Brantford Police Service	ON	80.8	92.4	123,521
12	Waterloo Region Waterloo Regional Police	ON	72.7	91.4	711,457
13	Hamilton ⚠ Hamilton Police Service	ON	66.2	85.9	640,465
14	London London Police Service	ON	65.9	81.8	494,785
15	Peel Regional Police serves Brampton and Mississauga — StatCan CSI is shared. 2 municipalities · shared CSI	ON	56.4	80.2	1,542,356
	Brampton Peel Region amalgamated value; Brampton and Mississauga share Peel Regional Police Member of Peel Region	ON	56.4	80.2	777,759
	Mississauga Peel Region amalgamated value; Brampton and Mississauga share Peel Regional Police Member of Peel Region	ON	56.4	80.2	764,597
16	CSI profile shared for Langley Township RCMP / adjacent mapped detachments. 2 municipalities · shared CSI	BC	78.5	80.0	269,810
	Langley ⚠ Langley Township RCMP Member of Langley Township area	BC	78.5	80.0	163,885
	Maple Ridge ⚠ Mapped from Langley Township; adjacent RCMP detachments with similar profiles Member of Langley Township area	BC	78.5	80.0	105,925
17	Surrey ⚠ Surrey RCMP	BC	86.5	79.3	703,531
18	Calgary ⚠ Calgary Police Service	AB	63.3	78.5	1,612,834

⚠ marks a frozen open-data feed or partial offence coverage. CSI values are Statistics Canada 2024 and remain valid; the marker applies only to the municipal feed.

Crime rate by category — 2026

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1	Medicine Hat Jan–Jul	AB	7.67	—	0.66	4.79	1.50	0.49	0.19	11.43	8.17	256.00	290.90
2	Victoria Mar–Jul · annualized	BC	3.90	—	0.87	3.48	0.49	17.90	6.17	12.92	—	68.55	114.28
3	Saskatoon Jan–Jul	SK	8.58	1.04	1.52	5.36	2.48	13.83	6.86	8.04	5.58	39.97	93.28
4	Lethbridge Jan–Jul	AB	9.70	1.42	—	3.79	—	21.63	—	7.84	3.83	34.10	82.30
5	Windsor Jan–Jul	ON	4.10	0.44	0.46	3.18	—	22.99	—	5.60	6.87	29.15	72.78
6	Peterborough Jan–Jul	ON	6.36	—	0.54	2.88	0.72	31.14	—	5.47	6.07	6.26	59.47
7	Edmonton Jan–Jul	AB	5.09	—	0.88	3.85	4.31	22.19	—	5.38	5.61	10.50	57.84
8	Wetaskiwin Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	10.47	3.86	16.42	5.47	13.69	—	—	49.92
9	Vancouver Jan–Jul	BC	8.75	—	—	2.69	0.60	17.01	7.60	7.42	—	1.63	46.85
10	Oakville Jan–Jul · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.19	1.23	2.18	1.97	1.53	1.43	—	37.93	46.77
11	Newmarket Jan–Jul	ON	7.68	0.45	0.24	1.76	0.74	13.91	1.35	3.62	4.83	11.62	46.24
12	Prince George Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	5.79	2.43	18.08	7.74	11.12	—	—	46.12
13	Georgina Jan–Jul	ON	10.31	0.44	0.25	0.97	0.72	10.09	0.47	4.61	2.98	14.07	45.01
14	London Apr–Jul · annualized	ON	3.72	—	0.32	1.74	—	22.18	4.75	5.43	2.09	0.91	41.33
15	Aurora Jan–Jul	ON	4.82	0.40	0.20	0.75	0.62	16.84	0.92	2.06	4.54	8.37	39.64
16	Yellowknife Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	NT	—	—	—	6.13	2.82	14.31	2.14	13.34	—	—	38.74
17	Vaughan Jan–Jul	ON	4.98	0.32	0.37	1.34	1.89	10.56	1.37	2.88	4.90	9.01	37.69
18	Lloydminster (Part) Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	2.34	3.61	14.98	2.55	12.75	—	—	36.23
19	Regina Jan–Jul	SK	6.31	—	0.68	3.14	1.34	11.53	3.79	5.78	—	2.87	35.44
20	Grande Prairie Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	3.38	4.68	15.52	6.57	5.14	—	—	35.28
21	Richmond Hill Jan–Jul	ON	5.02	0.35	0.40	1.36	1.01	9.83	1.16	2.70	4.68	7.02	33.57
22	Ottawa Jan–Jul	ON	5.74	—	0.43	1.56	0.86	19.57	—	3.07	—	0.09	31.33
23	Abbotsford Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	BC	—	—	0.52	2.47	1.47	15.17	3.90	7.39	—	0.22	31.15
24	Maple Ridge Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.65	1.55	4.50	4.52	5.20	—	11.54	30.33
25	East Gwillimbury Jan–Jul	ON	4.96	0.27	0.15	0.88	1.22	8.44	0.69	2.33	2.98	6.87	28.83
26	Brantford Mar–Jul · annualized	ON	5.05	—	0.49	1.61	2.88	14.40	—	—	4.39	—	28.81
27	Halton Hills Jan–Jul · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.23	0.78	2.29	2.22	1.56	1.24	—	19.83	28.25
28	Markham Jan–Jul	ON	3.53	0.25	0.36	1.39	0.77	8.10	0.89	2.16	4.06	5.64	27.17
29	Stratford Apr–Jul · annualized	ON	3.49	—	—	2.58	1.08	15.04	—	—	4.49	—	26.68
30	Guelph Mar–Jul · annualized	ON	3.27	—	0.36	1.82	2.51	13.23	—	—	4.99	—	26.17
31	King Jan–Jul	ON	3.60	0.17	0.06	1.49	1.83	4.00	1.03	3.20	1.77	8.34	25.71
32	Red Deer Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	3.14	1.90	8.57	3.64	7.53	—	—	24.79
33	Burlington Jan–Jul · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.27	1.52	2.14	2.23	1.50	1.46	—	15.13	24.46
34	Waterloo Region Mar–Jul · annualized	ON	3.04	—	0.44	2.02	2.51	11.96	—	—	4.15	—	24.11
35	Wood Buffalo Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	2.39	2.83	6.91	3.38	4.13	—	—	19.64
36	Milton Jan–Jul · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.18	0.76	1.55	1.90	0.84	1.23	—	12.19	18.76
37	Whitchurch-Stouffville Jan–Jul	ON	3.08	0.17	0.03	0.66	0.58	2.76	0.35	1.90	2.50	5.53	17.58
38	Leduc Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	2.88	1.85	5.21	2.06	5.48	—	—	17.47
39	Mississauga Jan–Jul	ON	3.55	—	0.33	1.35	3.30	—	—	2.98	2.57	0.61	14.70
40	St. Albert Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	1.89	0.74	6.55	2.48	2.75	—	—	14.41
41	Rocky View County Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	2.56	2.48	4.73	2.43	2.08	—	—	14.28
42	Parkland County Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	3.17	2.58	4.16	1.12	3.17	—	—	14.21
43	Gatineau Jan–Jul	QC	6.90	—	0.36	2.17	0.91	—	0.69	2.82	—	—	13.86
44	Oshawa Jan–Jul	ON	6.27	—	0.54	1.60	1.41	—	2.57	—	—	0.97	13.44
45	Brampton Jan–Jul	ON	3.73	—	0.32	0.88	2.55	—	—	3.01	2.01	0.89	13.40
46	Strathcona County Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	2.13	0.91	4.94	2.83	2.44	—	—	13.24
47	Langley Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.25	0.99	4.59	4.22	0.27	—	—	12.76
48	Halifax Apr–Jul · annualized	NS	6.34	—	0.33	1.39	0.85	—	3.32	—	—	—	12.22
49	Montreal Jan–Jul · partial categories	QC	—	—	0.83	2.96	2.62	—	3.05	2.52	—	—	11.99
50	South Simcoe Mar–Jul · annualized	ON	1.88	—	0.09	0.45	1.48	3.81	—	—	3.79	—	11.50
51	Toronto Jan–Jul	ON	6.01	—	0.55	1.68	1.97	0.39	0.61	—	—	0.00	11.44
52	Pickering Jan–Jul	ON	2.62	—	0.39	1.51	2.65	—	2.65	—	—	0.97	10.88
53	Airdrie Mar–Jul · annualized · partial categories	AB	—	—	—	0.82	1.04	3.33	1.21	2.56	—	—	8.95
54	Ajax Jan–Jul	ON	3.11	—	0.38	1.19	1.40	—	1.78	—	—	0.62	8.49
55	Burnaby Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.75	0.81	—	4.28	—	—	—	7.84
56	Whitby Jan–Jul	ON	2.72	—	0.13	0.77	1.31	—	1.60	—	—	0.92	7.46
57	Surrey Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	0.59	0.64	3.70	2.01	0.17	—	—	7.12
58	Richmond Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	1.86	0.35	0.18	3.14	—	—	—	6.10
59	Clarington Jan–Jul	ON	2.09	—	0.11	1.02	0.93	—	0.83	—	—	0.87	5.90
60	Hamilton Apr–Jul · annualized · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.08	0.84	1.53	—	2.03	—	—	—	4.49
61	Coquitlam Jan–Jul · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	1.27	0.51	—	2.57	—	—	—	4.35

Latest complete year by category (2025)

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2025 complete year · per 1,000
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1	Windsor 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.07	0.48	0.54	3.29	—	22.10	—	5.75	7.11	28.34	71.68
2	Lethbridge 2025 (complete year)	AB	8.48	1.15	—	4.37	—	20.09	—	5.45	3.28	24.92	67.76
3	Medicine Hat 2025 (complete year)	AB	1.00	—	0.13	1.00	0.22	0.16	0.09	2.43	1.56	43.96	50.56
4	Peterborough 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.73	—	0.35	1.91	0.87	24.63	—	3.97	4.59	5.93	47.03
5	Newmarket 2025 (complete year)	ON	8.11	0.50	0.36	1.95	0.99	11.30	1.27	4.38	5.46	11.53	45.94
6	Vancouver 2025 (complete year)	BC	8.77	—	—	2.93	0.72	15.52	7.37	6.85	—	1.61	44.88
7	Prince George 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	5.12	2.26	18.31	6.21	10.94	—	—	43.67
8	Georgina 2025 (complete year)	ON	8.73	0.47	0.32	2.16	0.97	8.02	0.93	4.57	3.56	13.87	43.60
9	Edmonton 2025 (complete year)	AB	3.82	—	0.77	3.24	3.06	15.29	—	4.33	3.79	8.89	43.22
10	Vaughan 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.85	0.35	0.49	1.74	2.45	12.16	1.69	3.80	6.24	8.26	42.15
11	Aurora 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.76	0.47	0.25	1.56	0.93	15.34	0.64	2.89	5.86	7.06	39.82
12	Richmond Hill 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.95	0.27	0.38	1.91	1.32	9.82	1.00	3.08	6.28	6.96	36.04
13	Saskatoon 2025 (complete year)	SK	3.08	0.30	0.61	1.93	1.00	5.64	2.49	3.18	1.83	15.33	35.39
14	King 2025 (complete year)	ON	3.82	0.41	0.17	3.10	3.30	5.30	0.76	3.92	3.85	10.01	34.87
15	Ottawa 2025 (complete year)	ON	6.30	—	—	1.89	1.16	12.77	—	2.67	4.97	4.00	33.77
16	Maple Ridge 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.76	1.60	4.27	4.30	6.24	—	12.96	32.66
17	East Gwillimbury 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.51	0.21	0.21	1.28	1.67	8.44	0.67	3.09	4.00	8.16	32.36
18	Oakville 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.11	1.20	1.49	1.80	1.26	0.83	—	21.87	28.98
19	Markham 2025 (complete year)	ON	3.51	0.24	0.34	1.84	1.15	7.35	1.11	2.38	5.27	5.53	28.79
20	Whitchurch-Stouffville 2025 (complete year)	ON	3.24	0.29	0.09	1.34	1.09	3.24	0.55	2.12	3.40	5.59	20.96
21	Burlington 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.16	1.46	1.54	1.78	1.61	1.21	—	11.18	19.37
22	Halton Hills 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.19	0.75	1.41	2.39	1.41	1.00	—	10.05	17.29
23	Mississauga 2025 (complete year)	ON	3.86	—	0.49	1.79	3.37	—	—	2.84	3.34	0.51	16.20
24	Brampton 2025 (complete year)	ON	4.08	—	0.42	1.47	2.91	—	—	2.67	2.78	0.73	15.08
25	Gatineau 2025 (complete year)	QC	6.79	—	0.36	2.21	0.98	—	1.05	3.15	—	—	14.52
26	Milton 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	ON	—	—	0.12	0.76	1.51	1.60	0.79	0.86	—	7.21	12.99
27	Montreal 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	QC	—	—	0.88	3.13	2.82	—	3.22	2.71	—	—	12.77
28	Langley 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.12	1.49	3.77	3.78	0.32	—	—	12.01
29	Toronto 2025 (complete year)	ON	6.17	—	0.57	1.80	1.91	0.44	0.10	—	—	0.00	11.08
30	Oshawa 2025 (complete year)	ON	3.40	—	0.28	1.00	0.98	—	1.66	—	—	0.59	7.98
31	Burnaby 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.48	0.81	—	4.50	—	—	—	7.79
32	Richmond 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	1.77	0.57	0.22	3.23	—	—	—	6.34
33	Coquitlam 2025 (complete year) · partial categories	BC	—	—	—	2.15	0.38	—	3.64	—	—	—	6.18
34	Pickering 2025 (complete year)	ON	1.79	—	0.24	0.91	1.24	—	1.04	—	—	0.54	5.81
35	Ajax 2025 (complete year)	ON	1.96	—	0.15	0.56	0.84	—	0.74	—	—	0.33	4.62
36	Whitby 2025 (complete year)	ON	1.50	—	0.14	0.60	0.80	—	0.61	—	—	0.55	4.26
37	Clarington 2025 (complete year)	ON	1.41	—	0.06	0.79	0.47	—	0.79	—	—	0.59	4.13

How to read these numbers

CSI — Statistics Canada severity-weighted index (Canada 2006 = 100). Higher = more severity-weighted crime per capita.
Open-data rates — annualized incidents per 1,000 residents from municipal portals; “—” means the category is not published, not necessarily zero.
Mapped incident volume — raw pin counts on CrimeMaps (population and feed breadth drive totals). Useful for coverage, not a safety ranking by itself.
City maps — neighbourhood concentration; open the city page after using any national ranking.

Related rankings

Rankings Safest cities Lowest official CSI scores across Canadian cities. Official index Crime Severity Index How StatCan CSI weights offences and what it means. All rankings Rankings hub CSI, category rates, volume, and province coverage. Volume Crime statistics National totals and category breakdowns.

Frequently asked questions

What does the per-category rate table show?

Annualized incidents per 1,000 residents for each crime category, from complete months in 2026 (Jan–Jul). Only live open-data feeds with at least three complete months are included. Missing categories show as "—". The official CSI table is the authoritative annual severity comparison.

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. The weighted total is divided by population and scaled so Canada 2006 = 100. Higher CSI = more severity-weighted crime per capita. Full detail: methodology page.

Why default sort by Violent CSI?

Overall CSI mixes violent and non-violent crime. Cities with high property crime can rank high on overall CSI while ranking low on violent CSI. Violent CSI better matches common “danger” questions; click Overall CSI to re-sort.

Why is my city ranked high?

Violent CSI reflects severity-weighted violent offences reported by that police service or CMA. Homicide, robbery, and assault carry large weights. A high city average does not mean every neighbourhood is equally unsafe — check the city page for where incidents concentrate.

Why do some cells show a dash?

A dash (—) means that category key is not present in the municipal open-data feed for that city — not that the count is zero. A true zero appears as 0.00. Montreal, for example, publishes property and robbery categories but not assault or sexual assault in its open feed.

Is this the same as a news “top 10 most dangerous cities” list?

Often no. News lists may use different years, different crime definitions, or raw rates without severity weights. Our CSI column is StatCan’s official index; open-data rates use only live municipal portals we cover.