Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Coalhurst than in 91% of Canadian towns
About 27% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size. Scored on crime the police covering Coalhurst reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety: #3 of 474 in Alberta. Violence accounts for an index of 34 and other offences for 36.6, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8. The yearly rates were 5.2 violent incidents and 15.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 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 Picture Butte detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Coalhurst
Lighter than in 2023
Coalhurst’s index went from 46.9 in 2023 to 26 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Coalhurst, 35.7. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Coalhurst comes 3rd, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Coalhurst’s two halves part ways: 34 for violence (typical 85.7) and 36.6 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’s behind Coalhurst’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Coalhurst has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 18 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.
Its place: #3 of 474 in Alberta and #192 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.
Year by year in Coalhurst: down 45%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 46.9 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 26 in 2025. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Coalhurst | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 34.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 46.9 | 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 Coalhurst, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Coalhurst’s crime by kind
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 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 2.7 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 1.2 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 2.1 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19 | 2.1 | 9% |
| Mischief | 39 | 4.4 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 14.7 | 1.7 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| 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.
Coalhurst comes 3rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 2 | Greater Madawaska Ontario | 3,234 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 3 | Coalhurst Alberta | 3,244 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| 4 | Hampton New Brunswick | 3,268 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| 5 | Beaumont Quebec | 3,188 | 39.7 | 73 | A |
| 6 | North Algona Wilberforce Ontario | 3,290 | 41.5 | 77.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 28 | Pincher Creek No. 9 Alberta | 3,176 | 84.5 | 85.4 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Hay River Northwest Territories | 3,317 | 535.8 | 507.9 | 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 Coalhurst in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Coalhurst, 9,030 residents, recorded about 46 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.
And about 130 property crimes, plus 40 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 Coalhurst
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalhurst | 3,244 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| Lethbridge | 113,671 | 128.5 | 142 | D |
| Lethbridge County | 10,988 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Nobleford | 1,694 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| Picture Butte | 2,380 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
The places around Coalhurst all score higher on the index. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Coalhurst
Is Coalhurst safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 35.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Coalhurst stands, with 5.2 violent and 15.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Coalhurst?
Police record mischief most, 4.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (3.6) and break and enter (2.7).
Is crime going up in Coalhurst?
Down 45%: 46.9 in 2023, 26 in 2025.
How much of Coalhurst’s crime do police solve?
About 27% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 50% of violent and 18% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Coalhurst 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).