Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Fairview No. 136 runs higher than in 77% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 96 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Annual rates stand at 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, on the record of crime the police covering Fairview No. 136 reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety. The index fell from 101 in 2023 to 90.1 in 2025.
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. Measured across the Fairview detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Fairview No. 136
Mischief: high for a town its size
Fairview No. 136 records 14.2 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 ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Fairview No. 136’s two halves part ways: 62 for violence (typical 86.4) and 110.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Much like Alberta’s towns
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Fairview No. 136, 96. Towns its size ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 26% of Fairview No. 136’s crime, weighted by seriousness (56% of violent crime, 19% 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.
Fairview No. 136: C− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 2 km from Fairview No. 136, 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.
Fairview No. 136’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Fairview No. 136 runs highest on mischief (14.2 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (8.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 65.7 | 8.2 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.7 | 2.1 | 20% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 3.8 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 1.2 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.7 | 8.6 | 11% |
| Mischief | 113.7 | 14.2 | 15% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 35 | 4.4 | 60% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.3 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 11 | 1.4 | 39% |
| Impaired driving | 20.7 | 2.6 | 66% |
| 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.
Fairview No. 136, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 101 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 90.1 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Fairview No. 136 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 97 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101 | 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 Fairview No. 136, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Fairview No. 136, 8,040 residents, recorded about 110 violent incidents a year, 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 350 property crimes and 130 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 Fairview No. 136
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview No. 136 | 1,647 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Fairview (4 km) | 2,918 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Clear Hills (37 km) | 3,110 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Birch Hills County (37 km) | 1,522 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Grimshaw (46 km) | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
Its police also cover 4 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Fairview No. 136 with figures are 4–46 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Fairview No. 136
Is Fairview No. 136 safe?
With 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Fairview No. 136 comes to 96 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Fairview No. 136?
Most often it is mischief: 14.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 10.1 and theft under $5,000 at 8.6.
Is crime going up in Fairview No. 136?
The reverse: 101 in 2023 came down to 90.1 by 2025, 11% lower.
How much of Fairview No. 136’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 26% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 56% of violent and 19% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Fairview No. 136 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).