Lead with what we know now
2025 annual actuals are the newest complete-year measures available for most services in 2026. Older observations are kept below as historical context, not given equal weight.
116% of the 2025 provincial target.
Total rides. The City reports more than 3.7 million in 2025.
6.5% lower than 2024; crime rate was 5,385 per 100,000.
Minimum count, 16.1% higher than 2024. Current shelter/overnight capacity: 127 beds.
The 2025 Asset Management Plan still relies on 2023 condition observations for key road measures. Shown below as structural context only.
What direction do the comparable series suggest?
These are secondary to the current signals above. They summarize comparable published series and explicitly flag when the underlying observations lag too far to support a current assessment.
Housing creation
Housing starts reflect private/non-profit construction and senior-government policy as well as municipal approvals.
Peterborough reported 1,345 homes against a cumulative provincial target of 1,207 from 2023-2025 (111%). It exceeded target in 2023 and 2025 but reached 75% in 2024.
Method: Housing-progress targets are a provincial measurement framework and should not be read as a direct measure of municipal planning productivity.
Use the budget line as municipal capacity context only; it is not a claim that planning spending caused housing starts.
Transit use
Transit ridership and budget figures cover different reporting bases in some years; source labels are shown.
Reported total ridership rose from 3,205,294 in 2023 to more than 3.7 million in 2025 — a minimum increase of about 15.4%. A 2018 historical reference of 4,973,571 is shown, but 2025 is published only as a rounded lower bound, so no exact recovery-to-peak percentage is claimed.
Method: Uses City-reported all-mode ridership. Comparability is stronger for 2023-2025 than for the older historical reference because service design and counting practices can change.
The 2025 source reports more than 3.7M rides, so its value is a lower bound.
Adult ridership was up 53,900 trips through September 30.
Older historical reference
Shown for context only; service design and counting practices may differ.
Ridership is a service-use outcome. Net requirement is the tax-supported operating context after service revenue, not cost per ride.
Police & public safety
The longitudinal crime trend uses Statistics Canada’s Peterborough CMA for consistent boundaries. A separate PPS service-area CSI is shown as current local-service context; the two series are not combined.
Statistics Canada’s Peterborough CMA CSI moved from 64.8 in 2021 to 57.3 in 2025, an 11.6% decline, with a small increase in 2024 before falling again in 2025. Lower is better.
Method: The longitudinal series uses the Peterborough CMA for consistent boundaries. The separate PPS service-area CSI is retained as a current service-area metric and should not be spliced into the CMA trend.
2025 is the latest annual Statistics Canada release. The CMA is broader than the Peterborough Police Service jurisdiction.
Severity and volume can move differently: Peterborough CMA CSI fell 6% in 2025 while Statistics Canada reports the crime rate changed +1%. The published annual percentage uses the underlying series and will not necessarily equal a calculation from rounded display values.
Older PPS service-area outputs and context
Output measure; not equivalent to crimes prevented.
Pilot/unit began in January 2024.
Output measure.
Annual report states more than $64,000 returned property.
CSI is a community crime measure, not a direct measure of police productivity.
Community F.I.R.S.T. activity measures show workload and outputs; they should not be treated as proof of broader crime reduction.
Infrastructure condition
Asset-condition figures combine observed and age-based information. 2025 lane-kilometres are work outputs, not substitutes for a comparable annual network-condition outcome.
The City has a 2025 Asset Management Plan, but key road-condition observations still rely on 2023 asset-condition data. That is useful structural context, not a current 2026 outcome reading.
Method: Infrastructure is intentionally excluded from the fresh-signal scorecard until a newer comparable network-condition observation is published. 2025 work delivered and funding-gap estimates remain available as context.
These numbers stay on the site because they describe the scale of the asset challenge, but they are no longer treated as a current outcome signal.
Projected average annual shortfall to eliminate renewal backlog while delivering proposed levels of service and planned growth.
Projected average annual shortfall to deliver proposed levels of service and planned growth.
Output measure: work delivered, not proof that overall road condition improved.
Output measure: work delivered, not a condition outcome.
Older condition / risk observations (mostly 2023)
High-risk classification considers condition and consequence of failure.
Derived from 17% Good plus 26% Very Good by replacement value.
Derived from 18% Poor plus 10% Very Poor by replacement value.
Approximate replacement value.
Condition and funding-gap measures help show the scale of the infrastructure challenge; they are not a one-year performance grade.
Housing & homelessness
The City is Service Manager for Peterborough City and County. Social Services is much broader than homelessness spending.
The City reported a minimum of 932 people experienced homelessness in 2025, up from 803 in 2024 (+16%). The May 2026 shelter report also says demand continues to exceed the existing 127-bed emergency shelter/overnight system.
Method: This is the freshest City-reported system-pressure indicator available. It counts people connected to services who were unsheltered, sheltered or couch surfing; it is not a point-in-time count and should not be compared directly with older RGI waitlist totals.
Freshest City-reported system count. Includes people connected to services who were unsheltered, in shelters or couch surfing; this is not a point-in-time count.
Current capacity context, not an outcome. City says demand continues to exceed the 127-bed system.
Older RGI housing-system context (through 2023)
Waitlists, housing placements and By-Name data describe system outcomes/pressure; they should not be attributed to a single City budget line.