Peterborough By The Numbers
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Results · the short version

What are we getting for the money?

The best answer is mixed. Some current indicators are improving, some are worsening, and some important systems simply aren't measured often enough to give residents a current answer.

Housing creation
ABOVE TARGET
545
homes in 2025

That was about 116% of Peterborough's provincial target of 470 homes.

Spending context: Planning/Development's comparable net requirement is up about 31% from 2023 to 2026. This is context, not proof of causation.
Homelessness
WORSENING
932
people experienced homelessness in 2025

The City's service-system count was about 16% higher than the 803 people reported for 2024.

Spending context: Social Services' net requirement is up about 43% from 2022 to 2026, but Social Services covers much more than homelessness.
Crime severity
IMPROVING
57.3
Peterborough CMA Crime Severity Index

CSI fell about 7% in 2025. Lower CSI means the severity-weighted measure improved.

Spending context: Police Services' net requirement is up about 48% from 2022 to 2026.
Crime volume
MIXED
5,385
reported crimes per 100,000

Statistics Canada reports the crime rate rose 1% even while CSI fell. The published annual percentage uses Statistics Canada’s underlying series; it should not be recomputed from the rounded displayed rates.

Transit
RECOVERING
3.7M+
rides in 2025

Ridership has grown from about 3.2M rides in 2023 while the comparable Transit net requirement is only about 1.8% above 2022.

Infrastructure condition
DATA LAG
No fresh network-condition reading.

The latest asset plans contain important funding-gap and work-output data, but key road-condition measures still rely on older observations. That is useful information too: residents cannot assess a current outcome that isn't being measured frequently enough.

How to read this

Spending beside an outcome is context — not proof that the spending caused the outcome.

Housing, crime, homelessness and transit are affected by many things beyond the City budget. The advanced page preserves the full source, scope and historical series.

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