Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Elk Point than in 96% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Elk Point reported put it at D− for safety. Its police logs show 57.6 violent incidents and 85.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 440.4 for violence and 260.2 for everything else (normally 86.4 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Elk Point detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Elk Point
Mischief: high for a town its size
Elk Point records 30.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than most of Alberta
Elk Point’s index of 309.8 compares with 110 for the typical town in Alberta. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 52% of crime in Elk Point ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Elk Point: D− 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Which crimes make up Elk Point’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Elk Point runs highest on mischief (30.3 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (3.8 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (32.7 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 13.7 | 2.9 | 44% |
| Robbery | 5.7 | 1.2 | 65% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 54.3 | 11.4 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 47.7 | 10 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 53.3 | 11.2 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 1.6 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 60.3 | 12.6 | 15% |
| Mischief | 145 | 30.3 | 48% |
| Weapons violations | 18 | 3.8 | 91% |
| Administration of justice violations | 129.7 | 27.1 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 3.5 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 18 | 3.8 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 40.3 | 8.4 | 67% |
| 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.
About 280 violent incidents a year across the police area of 4,830 residents that includes Elk Point, 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 410 property crimes, plus 330 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
The index in Elk Point, each year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 373.4 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 272 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Elk Point | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 272 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 373.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 284 | 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 Elk Point, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Elk Point
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Point | 1,481 | 309.8 | 440.4 | D− |
| St. Paul (28 km) | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | D− |
| St. Paul County No. 19 (33 km) | 6,462 | 352.9 | 639.7 | D− |
| Bonnyville (42 km) | 7,366 | 285.4 | 211.4 | D |
| Bonnyville No. 87 (49 km) | 13,265 | 197.6 | 183.7 | D |
Elk Point sits above 2 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Bonnyville (42.5 km away), scores 285.4 against 309.8.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Elk Point with figures are 28–49 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Elk Point together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. 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.”
- A small police area. About 4,829 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Elk Point
Is Elk Point safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Elk Point comes to 309.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 57.6 violent incidents and 85.8 property crimes. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Elk Point?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 45.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (32.7) and mischief (30.3).
Is crime going up in Elk Point?
Barely: 284 in 2023, 272 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Elk Point’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 52% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 72% of violent crime and 39% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Elk Point 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).