Crime per resident in Calmar runs higher than in 73% of Canadian towns
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Calmar’s Crime Severity Index averaged 88.9 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The grade is C, built on crime the police covering Calmar reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 13.5 violent incidents and 41.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 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. Shared with the rest of the Thorsby detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Calmar
Mischief: high for a town its size
Calmar records 11.2 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
Calmar’s index splits into violent crime, 60 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 101.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Calmar’s police clear 20%, 38% of violent crime and 16% of the rest. Questions ↓
Near the Alberta middle
Calmar’s index of 88.9 compares with 110 for the typical town in Alberta. 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.
Inside Calmar’s C for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 16 km off, which covers its own area rather than Calmar.
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 Calmar, by type
Against the typical town its size, Calmar runs highest on mischief (11.2 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (6.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 39.3 | 6.2 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 26 | 4.1 | 13% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 3.7 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 18.3 | 2.9 | 2% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51 | 8 | 8% |
| Mischief | 71 | 11.2 | 10% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 16.3 | 2.6 | 66% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 1.5 | 35% |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 12.7 | 2 | 89% |
| 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.
In Calmar, down 14% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 97.7, against a low of 84.2 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Calmar | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 84.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 97.7 | 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 Calmar, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Calmar, 6,580 residents, recorded about 86 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.
Add about 270 property crimes and 71 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Calmar
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calmar | 2,345 | 88.9 | 60 | C |
| Devon | 6,965 | 76.7 | 61.5 | C+ |
| Leduc County | 16,400 | 162.1 | 88.2 | D |
| Leduc | 39,966 | 82.8 | 70.5 | C |
Of 3 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Calmar. Devon, 11.2 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 76.7 to 88.9.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- 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. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Calmar
Is Calmar safe?
Statistics Canada puts Calmar at 88.9 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 13.5 and property crimes at 41.8 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Calmar?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 11.2, theft under $5,000 at 8 and other Criminal Code offences at 6.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Calmar?
It went down 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 97.7 to 84.2.
How much of Calmar’s crime do police solve?
20%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 38% and non-violent crime at 16%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Calmar and everywhere else it polices.
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).