Photo: Kay Röllig · CC BY 3.0Crime per resident in Foothills County runs lower than in 87% of Canadian towns
Its 6 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Measured on crime the police covering Foothills County reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A: #8 of 474 in Alberta. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 30.5 and 42.8. Recorded violent incidents ran at 6.6 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 17.2, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Okotoks detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Foothills County
Below Alberta’s typical town
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Foothills County scores 39.1. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Foothills County’s two halves part ways: 30.5 for violence (typical 89.4) and 42.8 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Foothills County is 12th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
From 39.8 in 2023 to 33.8 in 2025: that is Foothills County’s index, against 69.5 and 60 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Foothills County’s A
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 7 km from Foothills County, 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.
Its place: #8 of 474 in Alberta and #262 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Foothills County’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Foothills County runs highest on mischief (4.3 per 1,000 against 3.7). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 31 | 2.3 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 17 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.3 | 1.6 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 0.7 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 42.7 | 3.1 | 9% |
| Mischief | 59 | 4.3 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 1.1 | 64% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 0.9 | 42% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 54.3 | 4 | 54% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
In Foothills County, down 15% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 43.6, with 2025 the lightest at 33.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Foothills County | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 43.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Foothills County, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 90 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Foothills County (13,700 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.
Property crime adds about 240 a year and other violations 140 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Foothills County is 12th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Beaumont Alberta | 26,305 | 37 | 46.8 | A |
| 9 | Beloeil Quebec | 25,240 | 37.1 | 58.5 | A |
| 10 | Essex Ontario | 23,872 | 37.3 | 63.2 | A |
| 11 | Strathroy Ontario | 26,497 | 38.8 | 47.8 | A |
| 12 | Foothills County Alberta | 25,789 | 39.1 | 30.5 | A |
| 13 | L'Assomption Quebec | 25,126 | 39.2 | 59 | A |
| 14 | Saint-Lazare Quebec | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 15 | La Prairie Quebec | 27,159 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Grande Prairie County No. 1 Alberta | 25,883 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Foothills County in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Foothills County
Foothills County has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. 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.
Questions about safety in Foothills County
Is Foothills County safe?
With 6.6 violent incidents and 17.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Foothills County comes to 39.1 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people have a median of 66.
What is the most common crime in Foothills County?
Top of the list is Criminal Code traffic offences (5.6 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 4.3, and other Criminal Code offences, at 4.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Foothills County?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 39.8 to 33.8.
How much of Foothills County’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 26% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 50% of violent crime and 19% of the rest, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Foothills County 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).