Moving to a new country is a crucial decision in anyone’s life. When considering any country to immigrate to, individuals assess various factors for attaining a better life, and security and safety are some of the major factors. They enable individuals to live a stress-free and pleasurable life. If you are considering Canada to immigrate, here are Canada’s safest cities that you can choose to relocate. The blog takes into account Rentola’s recent report, which describes Ontario’s eight cities as among Canada’s top ten safest cities. Rentola is a digital channel for landlords and tenants. The report also claimed that Ontario is home to ten of the twenty safest sites in Canada.  

Canada’s Safest Cities: Factors Considered to Rank Them. 

In order to discover Canada’s safest cities, Rentola assigned the safety score to each Canadian city based on the crime rate within the city and the effectiveness of law enforcement. Further, the research was conducted by Rentola employing the data taken from Statistics Canada and considered the following factors:  

Number of citizens per police officer: This is the first factor that is used to assess the safety of Canadian cities. This is the ratio of citizens of a city to the total number of police officers in that area.  

Violent Crime Index: This is the second factor that takes into account severe crimes within the city, such as robbery, assaults, and homicides. 

Non-violent Crime Index: This factor includes crimes that don’t include physical violence, such as fraud, embezzlement, insider trading, etc.  

Crime Solving Rate: It is the ratio of crime cases solved by the total number of crime cases recorded. This can help determine how the police force and legal system handle the crime in that particular area.  

Crime Severity Index: CSI or Crime severity index is calculated by assessing the seriousness of the crime and its frequency within a particular city.  

The report takes into account all these factors and provides a safety score for each Canadian city. The method utilized a grading scale from 1 to 10. A score of 1 represents the least safe city, and a score of 10 represents the safest city among all.  

The top ten safest cities in Canada. 

As per Rentola’s report, the following are the top ten of Canada’s safest cities. Each city is mentioned along with its respective province and its safety score, which is calculated using the above-mentioned factors. 

1. Barrie, Ontario: 7.13; 

2. Brantford, Ontario: 7.00; 

3. Guelph, Ontario: 6.84; 

4. Toronto, Ontario: 6.63; 

5. Saint John, New Brunswick: 6.63; 

6. Belleville, Ontario: 6.43; 

7. Windsor, Ontario: 6.42; 

8. St. Catharines-Niagra, Ontario: 6.40; 

9. Lethbridge, Alberta; 6.37 

10. Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario: 6.29 

The placement of Toronto as the fourth-safest Canadian city on the list is noteworthy. This is because Toronto is the largest city in Canada, with a population of 2.7 million inhabitants as per the last census. As per the Rentola research, when Toronto combined with the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the population totaled 6.2 million.  

The relatively populated cities of Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver in Canada attain lower scores and are ranked much lower on the safer city lists than cities with lesser populations. Within the scope of this study, this presents a solid case for the widespread safety of the most populated cities and municipal areas of Canada. 

When considered at the Provincial level, a total of 34 cities were featured in this report. Among them, 14 cities were in Ontario, six were in Quebec, four were in British Columbia (BC), and three were in Alberta. As per the website’s Crime Severity Index (CSI) data, when compared to the other provinces in Canada, the provinces of Ontario and Quebec had significantly lower crime severity indexes. This is an unexpected as well as surprising result, as both Ontario and Quebec are the most populated Canadian provinces. Another surprising finding of this report was that the Northwest Territories had the highest severe crime rate in the nation.  

Further, the report emphasized that a certain level of crime, whether severe or non-severe, is always projected to occur, even though many cities in Canada have a low crime rate and high safety scores. In spite of this, the cities in Canada continue to be some of the safest cities in the world.  

Conclusion 

So, this was about Rentola’s report on Canada’s safest cities. The report offers some insightful information about crime and law-abiding status with the city safety score that can help individuals determine the safe Canadian cities to live a better life. Provincially, Ontario, with eight safe cities, is considered to be a safer Canadian province. Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta, in order, are next to it.  

Still, the report does not claim to be a comprehensive study of Canadian safe cities as it may not have considered all safety considerations or even all Canadian cities (due to insufficient data on some cities, which prevents them from joining the safe city list). 

If you are eager to move to Canada, you may further research the Canadian cities and provinces to gather more details about each and determine where you can move and settle permanently for quality of life.