Barnwell records less crime per resident than 96% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 30.1 for violence and 29.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Graded on crime the police covering Barnwell reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A+ for safety. Its police logs show 4.7 violent incidents and 11.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Taber detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Barnwell
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Barnwell, 29.4. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Barnwell’s index splits into violent crime, 30.1 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 29.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Up since 2023
From 23.4 in 2023 to 33.1 in 2025: that is Barnwell’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Barnwell’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Barnwell has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 9 km away.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
In Barnwell, up 41% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 33.1, and 2023 lowest at 23.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Barnwell | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 31.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 23.4 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Barnwell, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 52 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Barnwell (11,100 residents), 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Property crime adds about 130 a year and other violations 48 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
What police record in Barnwell, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 17 | 1.5 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.8 | 11% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.7 | 1.5 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21 | 1.9 | 11% |
| Mischief | 30.3 | 2.8 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 24.7 | 2.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 6.7 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in the places around Barnwell
One place nearby is policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Solved cases. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Barnwell
Is Barnwell safe?
Statistics Canada puts Barnwell at 29.4 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 4.7 and property crimes at 11.4 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Barnwell?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (2.8) and assault (2.3).
Is crime going up in Barnwell?
It went up 41% between 2023 and 2025, from 23.4 to 33.1.
How much of Barnwell’s crime do police solve?
36%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 63% and non-violent crime at 23%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Barnwell together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).