A new report compiled by a rental listing website has ranked Peterborough as the 17th safety city in the country, just ahead of Vancouver.
To come up with the ranking, Rentola factors in information such as number of residents per police officer, crime rate statistics, the severity of crime and the crime resolution rate. The resulting list has ranked 34 Canadian cities, with Peterborough placing right in the middle.
The city ranked safest is Barrie, followed, in order, by Brantford, Guelph, Toronto and Saint John, New Brunswick.
To view the full report, visit rentola.ca/safest-cities-in-canada
(Written by: Paul Rellinger)