Photo: Cherry2207 · CC BY 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Pollard Meadows than in 82% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 114.9 to 103.9. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 128.3 and 103.6. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Pollard Meadows reported put it at C− for safety: #229 of 474 in Alberta. Police counts work out at 14.2 violent incidents and 45.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1.
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. Crime severity and crime rate published for the Edmonton service area, not by town.
What’s behind Pollard Meadows’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Pollard Meadows can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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.
What Edmonton’s police record, by type
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 motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 1.7), break and enter (4.8 per 1,000 against 2.2) and theft under $5,000 (21.4 per 1,000 against 11.5).
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.
Pollard Meadows, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (114.9); 2025 was the lightest, at 103.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pollard Meadows | 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 Pollard Meadows, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Pollard Meadows
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollard Meadows | 4,361 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Daly Grove | 3,486 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Meyokumin | 4,069 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Bisset | 3,049 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Weinlos | 3,243 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Crawford Plains | 3,075 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Sakaw | 3,453 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 6 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.
- One figure for the city. Edmonton’s neighbourhood crime data has left the city’s open-data site and carries no open licence; Pollard Meadows takes the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Pollard Meadows
Is Pollard Meadows safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Pollard Meadows’s Crime Severity Index stands at 110 for 2023–2025. Its police record 14.2 violent incidents and 45 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Pollard Meadows?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 21.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (18.1) and assault (8).
Is crime going up in Pollard Meadows?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 10%, to 103.9 from 114.9.
How much of Pollard Meadows’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 34% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 48% of violent and 27% of non-violent crime.
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).