Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Cochrane than in 85% of Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Cochrane reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A for safety: #9 of 474 in Alberta. Recorded violent incidents ran at 8.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 22.3, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Its violent half comes to 38.9 and its non-violent half to 40.4, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. The index fell from 44.1 in 2023 to 36.7 in 2025.
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.
What stands out about safety in Cochrane
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Cochrane scores 39.7. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Cochrane is 7th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Cochrane’s two halves part ways: 38.9 for violence (typical 89.4) and 40.4 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Cochrane records 9.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Cochrane: A for safety, and why
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: #9 of 474 in Alberta and #294 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Cochrane’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Cochrane runs highest on mischief (9.4 per 1,000 against 3.7). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.2 | 58% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.3 | 0.2 | 32% |
| Breaking and entering | 48.7 | 1.3 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.3 | 0.3 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32 | 0.9 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 0.3 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 204.7 | 5.4 | 12% |
| Mischief | 356.7 | 9.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.1 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 224 | 6 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 24 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 18.7 | 0.5 | 32% |
| Impaired driving | 61 | 1.6 | 61% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.7 | 0.07 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Cochrane, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 44.1, and 2025 the lightest at 36.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cochrane | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36.7 | 60 |
| 2024 | 38.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 44.1 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Cochrane, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Cochrane places 7th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Paris Ontario | 45,565 | 36.6 | 30.9 | A |
| 5 | Chambly Quebec | 31,870 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 6 | Vaudreuil-Dorion Quebec | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 7 | Cochrane Alberta | 39,397 | 39.7 | 38.9 | A |
| 8 | Saint-Constant Quebec | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 9 | Okotoks Alberta | 33,482 | 42.5 | 48.7 | A− |
| 10 | Chestermere Alberta | 31,671 | 43.2 | 43.5 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Spruce Grove Alberta | 44,575 | 81.6 | 76.3 | C |
| 27 | Leduc Alberta | 39,966 | 82.8 | 70.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 33 | Parkland County Alberta | 34,286 | 121 | 115 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Cochrane in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 300 violent incidents a year on Cochrane’s police records (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 850 property crimes, plus 460 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 Cochrane
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cochrane | 39,397 | 39.7 | 38.9 | A |
| Rocky View County | 50,260 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| Rocky Ridge | 8,419 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Tuscany | 19,986 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Royal Oak | 12,343 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Valley Ridge | 7,782 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Cochrane.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Cochrane
Is Cochrane safe?
Cochrane measures 39.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 8 violent incidents and 22.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Cochrane?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (9.4) and theft under $5,000 (5.4).
Is crime going up in Cochrane?
No: the index fell 17%, from 44.1 in 2023 to 36.7 in 2025.
How much of Cochrane’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 48% of violent crime and 24% of everything else, 31% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Cochrane alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).