Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Kneehill County runs higher than in 83% of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 110.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Add to that, its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Kneehill County reported over 2023 to 2025: #422 of 474 in Alberta. The local count comes to 19.6 violent incidents and 36.4 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. Measured across the Three Hills detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Kneehill County
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Kneehill County records 2.3 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Kneehill County moved from 144.6 to 80.4, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Kneehill County stands 35th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
A low clearance rate
Police cleared 21% of Kneehill County’s crime, weighted by seriousness (41% of violent crime, 14% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Kneehill County’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 6 km off, which covers its own area rather than Kneehill County.
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: #422 of 474 in Alberta and #2,208 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.
In Kneehill County, down 44% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 144.6, and its lowest 2025, at 80.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kneehill County | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 107.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 144.6 | 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 Kneehill County, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Kneehill County’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Kneehill County runs highest on drug offences (2.3 per 1,000 against 0.7), break and enter (8.5 per 1,000 against 2.8) and mischief (7.2 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 | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 78.3 | 8.5 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 26.7 | 2.9 | 12% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.3 | 2.4 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 69 | 7.5 | 7% |
| Mischief | 66.7 | 7.2 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.8 | 37% |
| Administration of justice violations | 72.7 | 7.8 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 29 | 3.1 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 21.3 | 2.3 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 54 | 5.8 | 36% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Kneehill County is 35th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood Ontario | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Carstairs Alberta | 5,248 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Didsbury Alberta | 5,185 | 59.9 | 69.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Annapolis County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 5,086 | 96 | 107.6 | C− |
| 33 | Electoral Area D, Peace River British Columbia | 5,100 | 107.6 | 157.4 | C− |
| 34 | Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador | 5,041 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| 35 | Kneehill County Alberta | 5,129 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
| 36 | Antigonish Nova Scotia | 5,175 | 115.4 | 123.5 | C− |
| 37 | Tyendinaga Ontario | 5,005 | 131.9 | 280.3 | D |
| 38 | Oliver British Columbia | 5,262 | 132.5 | 95.2 | D |
| 39 | Big Lakes County Alberta | 5,106 | 167.3 | 179 | D |
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | 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 Kneehill County in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 180 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Kneehill County (9,430 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 340 a year and other violations 230 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Kneehill County
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kneehill County | 5,129 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
| Three Hills | 3,502 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
| Trochu | 1,191 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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 Kneehill County
Is Kneehill County safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Kneehill County scores 110.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 19.6 violent and 36.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Kneehill County?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 13.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come break and enter at 8.5 and assault at 7.9.
Is crime going up in Kneehill County?
It went down 44% between 2023 and 2025, from 144.6 to 80.4.
How much of Kneehill County’s crime do police solve?
21%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 41% and non-violent crime at 14%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Kneehill County and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).