Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Bassano sees less crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Bassano reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety. Split in two, the index gives 39.7 for violence and 45.7 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The local count comes to 9.7 violent incidents and 20.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Measured across the Bassano detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Bassano
Below Alberta’s typical town
Bassano’s index of 43.7 compares with 110 for the typical town in Alberta. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 61% of Bassano’s crime, weighted by seriousness (152% of violent crime, 28% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Bassano’s two halves part ways: 39.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 45.7 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Bassano’s A−
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.
Bassano’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Bassano runs highest on mischief (6.3 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 8 | 1.9 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.7 | 1.8 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19.3 | 4.7 | 5% |
| Mischief | 25.7 | 6.3 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8.7 | 2.1 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 7 | 1.7 | 67% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
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.
4,270 residents, about 40 violent incidents a year: the police area Bassano belongs to, 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 85 a year and other violations 29 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Three years of Bassano’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (49.5); 2025 was the lightest, at 40.7. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bassano | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 40.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 49.5 | 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 Bassano, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Bassano
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bassano | 1,381 | 43.7 | 39.7 | A− |
| Duchess (40 km) | 1,045 | 40.4 | 25.8 | A− |
| Newell County (43 km) | 7,846 | 40.4 | 25.8 | A− |
| Brooks (47 km) | 17,537 | 91.9 | 120.8 | C |
Nearby, 2 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Bassano. The nearest of them, Duchess (39.6 km away), scores 40.4 against 43.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Bassano with figures are 40–47 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Few people behind the figures. The police behind these figures serve about 4,270 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Bassano together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Bassano
Is Bassano safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Bassano comes to 43.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 20.8 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Bassano?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 6.3, theft under $5,000 at 4.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 4.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Bassano?
It went down 18% between 2023 and 2025, from 49.5 to 40.7. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Bassano’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 152% of violent crime and 28% of everything else, 61% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Bassano and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).