Per resident, Eckville records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 67.3 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Still, recorded violent incidents ran at 8.6 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 32.0, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its letter overall is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. By 2025 the index had dropped to 59.2, down from 66.3 in 2023.
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 Sylvan Lake detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Eckville
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Eckville’s two halves part ways: 43.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 77.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Eckville scores 67.3. Towns its size ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 21% of Eckville’s crime, weighted by seriousness (43% of violent crime, 16% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Eckville’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 20 km from Eckville, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Eckville’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Eckville runs highest on mischief (6.4 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 35.3 | 4.2 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22.7 | 2.7 | 19% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 33 | 4 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 1.8 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.3 | 7.3 | 4% |
| Mischief | 53.3 | 6.4 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.3 | 1.8 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 0.8 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 41.7 | 5 | 53% |
| 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.
Eckville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 76.4; 2025 was lightest, at 59.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Eckville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 76.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 66.3 | 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 Eckville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 72 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Eckville (8,510 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.
Property crime adds about 270 a year and other violations 100 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Eckville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eckville | 1,088 | 67.3 | 43.3 | B− |
| Sylvan Lake (20 km) | 17,897 | 82.3 | 83.4 | C |
| Bentley (25 km) | 1,153 | 67.3 | 43.3 | B− |
| Clearwater County (28 km) | 11,856 | 188.3 | 342.3 | D |
Eckville has the lowest index of the places around it. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 20–28 km from Eckville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- 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. 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.”
Questions about safety in Eckville
Is Eckville safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Eckville comes to 67.3. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 8.6 violent incidents and 32 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Eckville?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come Criminal Code traffic offences at 6.6 and mischief at 6.4.
Is crime going up in Eckville?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 11%, to 59.2 from 66.3.
How much of Eckville’s crime do police solve?
About 21% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 43% of violent and 16% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Eckville 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).