Photo: Ribbet32 · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Beaverlodge runs higher than in 78% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 96.3, down from 110.6 in 2023. Still, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Beaverlodge reported put it at C− for safety. Split in two, the index gives 96.5 for violence and 98.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Recorded violent incidents ran at 17.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 44.3, against 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Beaverlodge detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Beaverlodge
Mischief: high for a town its size
Beaverlodge records 11.6 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Beaverlodge’s index splits into violent crime, 96.5 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 98.9 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the Alberta middle
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Beaverlodge scores 97.7. Towns its size ↓
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 Beaverlodge’s grade
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.
What police record in Beaverlodge, by type
Against the typical town its size, Beaverlodge runs highest on mischief (11.6 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (5.8 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 55 | 4.7 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 37.3 | 3.2 | 29% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 68 | 5.8 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 25 | 2.1 | 1% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 130 | 11 | 6% |
| Mischief | 137 | 11.6 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.5 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 38 | 3.2 | 70% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.3 | 1.6 | 48% |
| Drug violations | 8 | 0.7 | 50% |
| Impaired driving | 45.3 | 3.9 | 61% |
| 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.
Beaverlodge, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 110.6, and 2024 the lightest at 86.2. 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 | Beaverlodge | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 96.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 86.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 110.6 | 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 Beaverlodge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Beaverlodge is part of, 11,900 residents, recorded about 200 violent incidents a year (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 520 a year and other violations 170 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Beaverlodge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverlodge | 2,454 | 97.7 | 96.5 | C− |
| Wembley (19 km) | 1,516 | 97.7 | 96.5 | C− |
| Grande Prairie County No. 1 (37 km) | 25,883 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| Grande Prairie (40 km) | 71,160 | 149.3 | 157.2 | D |
| Sexsmith (44 km) | 2,561 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
Of 3 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Beaverlodge. Closest is Grande Prairie County No. 1, 37 km away, at 87.3 to 97.7 here. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Beaverlodge with figures are 19–44 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Beaverlodge together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Beaverlodge
Is Beaverlodge safe?
Police-reported crime in Beaverlodge scores 97.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 17.2 violent incidents and 44.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Beaverlodge?
Most often it is mischief: 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 11 and assault at 9.
Is crime going up in Beaverlodge?
Down 13%: 110.6 in 2023, 96.3 in 2025.
How much of Beaverlodge’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 30% of crime (60% of violent crime, 19% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Beaverlodge 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).