Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Falher records more crime than 75% of Canadian towns
In 2023 the index stood at 81.8; it rose to 92 in 2025. Year on year, 13.5 violent incidents and 41.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, it grades C for safety on crime the police covering Falher reported from 2023 to 2025. A Crime Severity Index of 91.3, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the McLennan detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Falher
Mischief: high for a town its size
Falher records 10.8 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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Violent crime scores 73 on Falher’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 99.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Alberta’s typical town
Within Alberta, the median town comes to 110 on the index, against 91.3 in Falher. Towns its size ↓
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 Falher’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Falher itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 19 km away.
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 Falher’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Falher runs highest on break and enter (7.2 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (10.8 per 1,000 against 4.2) and assault (7.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 36 | 7.2 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 2.1 | 46% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.7 | 3.8 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15 | 3 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 43 | 8.7 | 10% |
| Mischief | 53.7 | 10.8 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 18.3 | 3.7 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 1.3 | 19% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 5 | 1 | 60% |
| 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.
Falher, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 100.2, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 81.8. 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 | Falher | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 100.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 81.8 | 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 Falher, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 67 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Falher (5,030 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 53 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Falher
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falher | 1,084 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
| Smoky River No. 130 (8 km) | 1,941 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
| Northern Sunrise County (49 km) | 1,848 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
| Birch Hills County (52 km) | 1,522 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Peace No. 135 (55 km) | 1,581 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| High Prairie (56 km) | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | D− |
Falher has the lowest index of the places around it. The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 8–56 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Falher.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Falher
Is Falher safe?
The short answer is an index of 91.3 for Falher (2023–2025), built from 13.5 violent incidents and 41.5 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Falher?
Police record mischief most, 10.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (8.7) and assault (7.9).
Is crime going up in Falher?
Yes: the index rose 13%, from 81.8 in 2023 to 92 in 2025.
How much of Falher’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 65% of violent crime and 17% of everything else, 28% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Falher and everywhere else it polices.
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).