Photo: Masterhatch · CC0Hanna has more crime per resident than 64% of Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 22%, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. What’s more, a Crime Severity Index of 76.9, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. On the record of crime the police covering Hanna reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety: #191 of 474 in Alberta. The local count comes to 14.0 violent incidents and 32.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 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. Shared with the rest of the Hanna detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Hanna
Fraud: high for a town its size
Hanna records 9.8 incidents of fraud per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Lower than most of Alberta
Within Alberta, the median town comes to 110 on the index, against 76.9 in Hanna. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Hanna’s two halves part ways: 65.8 for violence (typical 85.7) and 82 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Hanna stands 27th, the lowest first. 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 Hanna’s grade
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: #191 of 474 in Alberta and #1,587 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.
Hanna’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Hanna runs highest on fraud (9.8 per 1,000 against 4.9), break and enter (4.9 per 1,000 against 2.8) and mischief (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.9). 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 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22 | 4.9 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 8.3 | 1.8 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 1.3 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 34.7 | 7.7 | 10% |
| Mischief | 26.3 | 5.8 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 28 | 6.2 | 71% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 1.2 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 4.3 | 1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 6.7 | 1.5 | 34% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.2 | — |
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, Hanna stands 27th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Spaniard's Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,664 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| 25 | Macamic Quebec | 2,698 | 75.8 | 140 | C+ |
| 26 | Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 2,691 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 27 | Hanna Alberta | 2,665 | 76.9 | 65.8 | C+ |
| 28 | Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,601 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 29 | Tumbler Ridge British Columbia | 2,663 | 87.3 | 86.4 | C |
| 30 | Saint George New Brunswick | 2,675 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
| … | |||||
| 33 | Sundre Alberta | 2,683 | 115.4 | 138.1 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 39 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | D− |
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | 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 Hanna in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Hanna is part of, 4,550 residents, recorded about 63 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 150 property crimes and 67 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Hanna’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 83.4; the lightest was 2023, at 72.8. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hanna | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 74.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 72.8 | 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 Hanna, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Hanna
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanna | 2,665 | 76.9 | 65.8 | C+ |
| Special Area No. 2 (24 km) | 1,837 | 76.9 | 65.8 | C+ |
| Starland County (45 km) | 1,820 | 57.6 | 48.1 | B |
| Drumheller (58 km) | 8,439 | 101.2 | 101.9 | C− |
| Paintearth County No. 18 (72 km) | 2,014 | 98.2 | 77.1 | C− |
| Special Area No. 4 (79 km) | 1,171 | 69.8 | 55.2 | C+ |
Nearby, 2 of 4 places with their own figures have a lower index than Hanna. Just 44.6 km away, Starland County comes to 57.6, against 76.9. One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Hanna with figures are 24–79 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Read with care. The police behind these figures serve about 4,552 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A wider policing area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Hanna’s are shared with its surroundings.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Hanna
Is Hanna safe?
Hanna scores 76.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 14 violent incidents and 32.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Hanna?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 11.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 9.8 and theft under $5,000 at 7.7.
Is crime going up in Hanna?
Yes: the index rose 15%, from 72.8 in 2023 to 83.4 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Hanna’s crime do police solve?
22%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 36% and non-violent crime at 18%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Hanna 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).