Crime per resident in Laurel runs higher than in 82% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 14.2 violent incidents and 45.0 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. By contrast, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 114.9 to 103.9. On the record of crime the police covering Laurel reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety: #229 of 474 in Alberta. Violence accounts for an index of 128.3 and other offences for 103.6, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2.
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 Edmonton service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What’s behind Laurel’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Laurel itself compares.
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: #229 of 474 in Alberta and #2,009 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Edmonton’s figures
These are Edmonton’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Edmonton runs highest on robbery (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 1.7) and break and enter (4.8 per 1,000 against 2.2). Drug offences sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 34.3 | 0.03 | 68% |
| Sexual violations against children | 426.7 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 622 | 0.5 | 86% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 170 | 0.1 | 48% |
| Robbery | 1,333.7 | 1.1 | 35% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 100.3 | 0.09 | 80% |
| Other violent violations | 452 | 0.4 | 44% |
| Breaking and entering | 5,679.3 | 4.8 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1,457 | 1.2 | 65% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4,638.7 | 3.9 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,538.3 | 1.3 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25,561.3 | 21.4 | 16% |
| Mischief | 6,367.3 | 5.4 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 1,168.3 | 1 | 72% |
| Administration of justice violations | 17,903.7 | 15.1 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 772.7 | 0.7 | 74% |
| Drug violations | 889.3 | 0.7 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 1,242 | 1 | 92% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 31 | 0.03 | 100% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Laurel, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 114.9, and its lowest 2025, at 103.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Laurel | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 111.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 114.9 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Laurel, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Laurel
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | 15,263 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Daly Grove | 3,486 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Bisset | 3,049 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Silver Berry | 9,439 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Pollard Meadows | 4,361 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Weinlos | 3,243 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
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. 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.”
- City-wide figures. With no openly licensed neighbourhood data in Edmonton, the figures here are the city’s, not Laurel’s own.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Laurel
Is Laurel safe?
Statistics Canada puts Laurel at 110 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 14.2 and property crimes at 45 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Laurel?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 21.4, other Criminal Code offences at 18.1 and assault at 8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Laurel?
No: the index fell 10%, from 114.9 in 2023 to 103.9 in 2025.
How much of Laurel’s crime do police solve?
About 34% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 48% of violent and 27% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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).