Photo: Joningham · CC BY-SA 4.0Innisfail sees more crime per resident than 70% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 83.9, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, it grades C for safety on crime the police covering Innisfail reported from 2023 to 2025: #200 of 474 in Alberta. Its 3 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Recorded violent incidents ran at 15.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 47.2, against 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.
What stands out about safety in Innisfail
Mischief: high for a town its size
Innisfail records 15.4 incidents of mischief 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 ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Innisfail places 30th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Lower than most of Alberta
Innisfail’s index of 83.9 compares with 110 for the typical town in Alberta. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Innisfail’s two halves part ways: 76 for violence (typical 85.7) and 87.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Innisfail: C for safety, and why
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: #200 of 474 in Alberta and #1,764 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.
Innisfail’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Innisfail runs highest on mischief (15.4 per 1,000 against 4.9), drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.7) and fraud (8.3 per 1,000 against 4.9). Motor vehicle theft and sexual assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23 | 2.7 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 23 | 2.7 | 26% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.7 | 2.2 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.7 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 130.3 | 15 | 15% |
| Mischief | 133.3 | 15.4 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 30.3 | 3.5 | 58% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 18.3 | 2.1 | 44% |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 2.1 | 87% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
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.
Innisfail comes 30th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Camrose County Alberta | 8,951 | 70.5 | 76.9 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Clinton Ontario | 8,318 | 72.5 | 106.8 | C+ |
| 28 | Brownsburg-Chatham Quebec | 8,466 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 29 | Pictou County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 8,847 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| 30 | Innisfail Alberta | 8,736 | 83.9 | 76 | C |
| 31 | Renfrew Ontario | 8,721 | 91.6 | 165.9 | C |
| 32 | Hanover Ontario | 8,723 | 91.9 | 108.3 | C |
| 33 | Drumheller Alberta | 8,439 | 101.2 | 101.9 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Edson Alberta | 8,692 | 122.3 | 93.1 | D |
| 37 | Grande Cache Alberta | 8,984 | 160.6 | 210.5 | D |
| 38 | Lac la Biche County Alberta | 8,580 | 296.3 | 359.4 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Iqaluit Nunavut | 8,612 | 661.3 | 844 | 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 Innisfail in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in Innisfail: down 8%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 90 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 77.4 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Innisfail | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 90 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 84.5 | 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 Innisfail, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 130 violent incidents a year on Innisfail’s police records (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 410 property crimes and 150 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 Innisfail
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innisfail | 8,736 | 83.9 | 76 | C |
| Bowden | 1,315 | 73.6 | 64.8 | C+ |
| Penhold | 3,812 | 73.6 | 64.8 | C+ |
| Red Deer County | 22,076 | 73.6 | 64.8 | C+ |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Innisfail. Bowden, 11.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 73.6 to 83.9.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Innisfail
Is Innisfail safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Innisfail’s Crime Severity Index stands at 83.9 for 2023–2025. Its police record 15.3 violent incidents and 47.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Innisfail?
Most often it is mischief: 15.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 15 and other Criminal Code offences at 11.8.
Is crime going up in Innisfail?
Down 8%: 84.5 in 2023, 77.4 in 2025.
How much of Innisfail’s crime do police solve?
About 28% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 44% of violent and 23% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Innisfail’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).