Every place in Canada gets talked about as safe or unsafe, usually based on a headline or a feeling. The MkaeSense Safety Index replaces the feeling with a ranking. It scores every Canadian police service covering 25,000 or more people, 125 services in all, on a scale from 0 to 100, using Statistics Canada incident data for 2025. An index of 80 means a place is safer than 80 percent of the places it is compared against. Half the score comes from violent crime and half from property crime, so a place cannot rank at the top on quiet streets alone if its break-in numbers are poor.
Every dot is a place scored in the MkaeSense Safety Index for 2025, plotted on a real map of Canada and the United States. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and select any dot to open its full city profile.
If the map does not load, browse every place in the City Safety Rankings. Data: MkaeSense Safety Index, Data Release 2025.1 (Statistics Canada; FBI Crime Data Explorer).
Here is the top of the table for 2025. The full ranking, with every service and its underlying rates, is on our Safest Cities 2025 page.
| Rank | Place | Province | People served | Safety Index | Violent crime per 1,000 | Property crime per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kennebecasis Region | NB | 32,866 | 100 | 2.6 | 3.6 |
| 2 | Repentigny | QC | 97,984 | 99 | 5.9 | 3.6 |
| 3 | Strathroy-Caradoc | ON | 26,497 | 98 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| 4 | Blainville | QC | 61,739 | 98 | 6.3 | 5.8 |
| 5 | Collines-de-l'Outaouais | QC | 58,699 | 97 | 7.9 | 3.7 |
| 6 | Magog | QC | 41,359 | 96 | 7.8 | 5.1 |
| 7 | LaSalle | ON | 36,452 | 95 | 4.3 | 7.2 |
| 8 | L'Assomption | QC | 28,814 | 94 | 8.1 | 5.1 |
| 9 | Lévis | QC | 160,881 | 94 | 8.7 | 3.3 |
| 10 | Beaumont | AB | 26,305 | 93 | 7.5 | 6.4 |
What the top 10 has in common
Quebec takes six of the ten spots, and most of the list is made up of smaller communities on the edge of bigger cities. That is a real pattern, not a quirk of the math. Smaller services record very little violent crime in a year, and their property crime rates are a fraction of the national picture. For comparison, Canada's national break-in rate in 2025 was 264 per 100,000 people. The Kennebecasis Region, which covers communities including Rothesay and Quispamsis in New Brunswick, recorded a break-in rate of 57.8 per 100,000, less than a quarter of the national rate, and just 12 reported car thefts all year.
The largest place in the top 10 is Lévis, Quebec, across the river from Quebec City, serving 160,881 people with an index of 94 and the lowest property crime rate in the group at 3.3 per 1,000 residents.
The safest big places
Small places dominate any safety ranking, so it is worth asking a separate question: among the large services that police half a million people or more, who comes out on top? The answer is Halton Region in Ontario, covering Oakville and Burlington among its 666,432 residents. Halton earns a Safety Index of 86, the highest of any large Canadian police service, with a break-in rate of 142 per 100,000. The only large service with a lower break-in rate is Durham Region at 124.4 per 100,000, followed by the Halifax Metropolitan Area at 149.5 and York Region at 170.3.
At the other end of the size scale, Toronto scores 41 and ranks 74th of the 125 services. That puts the country's largest city in the bottom half of the table, though its break-in rate of 178.3 per 100,000 is actually well below the national rate of 264. Its weaker property numbers come largely from vehicle crime, which we break down in our Toronto vehicle crime data.
How to read this ranking
Three cautions belong with any ranking like this. First, these are crimes reported to police. Places differ in how readily people report, so the index measures reported crime, not every incident. Second, small places swing on small numbers. A single bad month can move a small service several points, which is why our published data flags differences that are beyond what chance would explain. Third, the index compares places within Canada only. A score of 86 in Canada and 86 in the United States come from separate comparisons and do not mean the same thing.
The method, including the formula and a worked example, is published on our Safety Index methodology page. To see how your own community is trending year over year, start with the break-in tracker, which follows break-ins, car theft and theft from vehicles from the national level down to individual neighbourhoods.
Source: Statistics Canada incident-based crime statistics by police service, as compiled in MkaeSense Data Release 2025.1.