Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Grimshaw sees more crime per resident than 77% of Canadian towns
The index fell from 101 in 2023 to 90.1 in 2025. Still, a Safety Grade of C− follows from crime the police covering Grimshaw reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #217 of 474 in Alberta. Year on year, 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 96 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian 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. Measured across the Fairview detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Grimshaw
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Grimshaw records 8.2 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 62 on Grimshaw’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 110.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Grimshaw is 33rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
About the Alberta norm
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Grimshaw scores 96. 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 Grimshaw’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Grimshaw has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 50 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.
Its place: #217 of 474 in Alberta and #1,910 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Which crimes make up Grimshaw’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Grimshaw runs highest on break and enter (8.2 per 1,000 against 2.8), mischief (14.2 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.6). 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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Grimshaw stands 33rd of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Elzéar Quebec | 2,842 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| … | |||||
| 4 | Turner Valley Alberta | 2,784 | 40.9 | 34.4 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 30 | Electoral Area H, Cowichan Valley British Columbia | 2,761 | 87 | 109.6 | C |
| 31 | Holyrood Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,749 | 90.3 | 68.4 | C |
| 32 | Highlands British Columbia | 2,753 | 92.7 | 168.2 | C |
| 33 | Grimshaw Alberta | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| 34 | Rosthern No. 403 Saskatchewan | 2,791 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| 35 | Senneterre Quebec | 2,832 | 103.6 | 183.5 | C− |
| 36 | Wakefield New Brunswick | 2,749 | 109.1 | 122.4 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 805.8 | 2,056.5 | 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 Grimshaw in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Grimshaw, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 101; the lightest was 2025, at 90.1. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Grimshaw | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 97 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 101 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Grimshaw, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 110 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Grimshaw (8,040 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 350 property crimes, plus 130 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 Grimshaw
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimshaw | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Peace No. 135 (9 km) | 1,581 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Peace River (21 km) | 7,220 | 254.7 | 229 | D |
| Northern Sunrise County (27 km) | 1,848 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
Grimshaw sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Northern Sunrise County, 27.4 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 91.3 to 96. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Grimshaw has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–27 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Grimshaw
Is Grimshaw safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 96 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Grimshaw stands, with 13.2 violent and 44.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Grimshaw?
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 Grimshaw?
The reverse: 101 in 2023 came down to 90.1 by 2025, 11% lower.
How much of Grimshaw’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 26% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 56% of violent crime and 19% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Grimshaw 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).