Clear Hills records more crime per resident than three in four Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 96, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5. Still, the index fell from 101 in 2023 to 90.1 in 2025. Its Safety Grade is C−, on crime the police covering Clear Hills reported from 2023 to 2025: #217 of 474 in Alberta. Annual rates stand at 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Fairview detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Clear Hills
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Clear Hills records 8.2 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Clear Hills scores 62 for violence and 110.5 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Clear Hills places 32nd from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Near the Alberta middle
Clear Hills’s index of 96 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.
What’s behind Clear Hills’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 51 km off, which covers its own area rather than Clear Hills.
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.
Its place: #217 of 474 in Alberta and #1,910 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Clear Hills, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Clear Hills runs highest on break and enter (8.2 per 1,000 against 2.8), mischief (14.2 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.6). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 65.7 | 8.2 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.7 | 2.1 | 20% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 3.8 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 1.2 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.7 | 8.6 | 11% |
| Mischief | 113.7 | 14.2 | 15% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 35 | 4.4 | 60% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.3 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 11 | 1.4 | 39% |
| Impaired driving | 20.7 | 2.6 | 66% |
| 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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Clear Hills stands 32nd of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Admaston/Bromley Ontario | 3,086 | 33.5 | 57.5 | A |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 3,073 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| 30 | Pincher Creek No. 9 Alberta | 3,176 | 84.5 | 85.4 | C |
| 31 | Bishop's Falls Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,162 | 92.1 | 84.1 | C |
| 32 | Clear Hills Alberta | 3,110 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| 33 | Princeton British Columbia | 3,050 | 114.4 | 174.3 | C− |
| 34 | Tisdale Saskatchewan | 3,052 | 123.4 | 132.5 | D |
| 35 | Minburn County No. 27 Alberta | 3,142 | 126.5 | 60.8 | D |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Thorhild County Alberta | 3,147 | 167.5 | 126.8 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Clear Hills in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Clear Hills, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 101 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 90.1. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Clear Hills | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 97 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 101 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Clear Hills, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 110 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Clear Hills (8,040 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.
And about 350 property crimes, plus 130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Clear Hills
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Hills | 3,110 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Fairview (36 km) | 2,918 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Fairview No. 136 (37 km) | 1,647 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Saddle Hills County (57 km) | 2,449 | 104.7 | 66.8 | C− |
| Birch Hills County (72 km) | 1,522 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Grimshaw (75 km) | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
Sharing its police with 4 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Clear Hills with figures are 36–75 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Clear Hills
Is Clear Hills safe?
With 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Clear Hills comes to 96 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Clear Hills?
Top of the list is mischief (14.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10.1, and theft under $5,000, at 8.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Clear Hills?
No: the index fell 11%, from 101 in 2023 to 90.1 in 2025.
How much of Clear Hills’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 26% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 56% of violent and 19% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Clear Hills 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).