Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Crossfield than in 89% of Canadian towns
Police clear 24% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%. On crime the police covering Crossfield reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #441 of 474 in Alberta. For every 1,000 residents, 15.9 violent incidents and 71.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.9 and 31.2. Violence accounts for an index of 122.9 and other offences for 143.9, against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8.
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 Airdrie detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Crossfield
Motor vehicle theft: high for a town its size
Crossfield records 8.7 incidents of motor vehicle theft per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.6 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Crossfield places 33rd from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Crossfield scores 122.9 for violence and 143.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Above Alberta’s typical town
Crossfield’s index of 137 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.
The D for Crossfield, and how it is built
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 17 km off, which covers its own area rather than Crossfield.
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: #441 of 474 in Alberta and #2,444 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 Crossfield, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Crossfield runs highest on motor vehicle theft (8.7 per 1,000 against 2.6), drug offences (1.8 per 1,000 against 0.7) and mischief (11.4 per 1,000 against 4.9).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 62.3 | 5.8 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 23 | 2.2 | 43% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 94.3 | 8.7 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 39.3 | 3.6 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 321 | 29.6 | 11% |
| Mischief | 124 | 11.4 | 10% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 44 | 4 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 20 | 1.9 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 19.3 | 1.8 | 61% |
| Impaired driving | 83.3 | 7.7 | 56% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.6 | 5% |
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.
Crossfield comes 33rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-Etchemin Quebec | 4,089 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Forty Mile County No. 8 Alberta | 3,927 | 34.4 | 26.6 | A |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Fort Macleod Alberta | 3,945 | 96.7 | 83.9 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 30 | Electoral Area C, Okanagan-Similkameen British Columbia | 4,103 | 113.4 | 144 | C− |
| 31 | Napierville Quebec | 4,187 | 116.5 | 80.3 | C− |
| 32 | Northern Lights County Alberta | 4,115 | 119.8 | 132.1 | C− |
| 33 | Crossfield Alberta | 4,075 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| 34 | Vermilion Alberta | 4,192 | 142.6 | 129.6 | D |
| 35 | Smoky Lake County Alberta | 4,043 | 255 | 152.4 | D |
| 36 | Port Hardy British Columbia | 4,201 | 259.5 | 435.4 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Swan River Manitoba | 4,048 | 435.7 | 403.3 | 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 Crossfield in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
In Crossfield, down 12% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 144.7, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 124.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Crossfield | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 144.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 142 | 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 Crossfield, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
About 170 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Crossfield (11,600 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.
Add about 770 property crimes and 270 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 Crossfield
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Crossfield. Carstairs, 14.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 54.8 to 137.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Reading the number. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Crossfield
Is Crossfield safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Crossfield comes to 137. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.9 violent incidents and 71.1 property crimes. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Crossfield?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (29.6 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 11.4, and other Criminal Code offences, at 11.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Crossfield?
The reverse: 142 in 2023 came down to 124.4 by 2025, 12% lower.
How much of Crossfield’s crime do police solve?
24%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 47% and non-violent crime at 17%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Crossfield 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).