Photo: Jacob Marfo · CC BY-SA 3.0La Crète has more crime per resident than 84% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 33.4 violent incidents and 45.8 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. For solved cases, the weighted rate is 50%, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Counting crime the police covering La Crète reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety: #425 of 474 in Alberta. Violence accounts for an index of 218.8 and other offences for 72.4, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Fort Vermilion detachment area.
What stands out about safety in La Crète
Mischief: high for a town its size
La Crète records 33 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, La Crète moved from 90.6 to 125.3, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Violent crime leads the index
La Crète scores 218.8 for violence and 72.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 89.4 and 56. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and La Crète stands 35th, 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.
La Crète: 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: #425 of 474 in Alberta and #2,217 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.
From 2023 to 2025, La Crète’s index climbed 38%
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 125.3, and 2023 lowest at 90.6. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | La Crète | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 124.7 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 90.6 | 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 La Crète, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in La Crète, type by type
Against the typical town its size, La Crète runs highest on mischief (33 per 1,000 against 3.7), assault (24 per 1,000 against 6.6) and motor vehicle theft (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 13.7 | 0.8 | 46% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 10 | 0.6 | 50% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 44.7 | 2.5 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 67.3 | 3.7 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.5 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 48.3 | 2.7 | 33% |
| Mischief | 599.7 | 33 | 48% |
| Weapons violations | 15 | 0.8 | 60% |
| Administration of justice violations | 86 | 4.7 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 25 | 1.4 | 49% |
| Drug violations | 11.7 | 0.6 | 34% |
| Impaired driving | 95.3 | 5.3 | 84% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
La Crète is 35th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Mountain View County Alberta | 14,802 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Lacombe Alberta | 14,733 | 61.7 | 47.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Truro Nova Scotia | 14,652 | 95 | 104.2 | C− |
| 33 | Parksville British Columbia | 15,371 | 107.4 | 88.3 | C− |
| 34 | Powell River British Columbia | 14,947 | 113.5 | 99.4 | C− |
| 35 | La Crète Alberta | 14,488 | 113.5 | 218.8 | C− |
| 36 | Terrace British Columbia | 13,648 | 174.6 | 155 | D |
| 37 | Dawson Creek British Columbia | 13,635 | 213.1 | 300.4 | D |
| 38 | Portage la Prairie Manitoba | 14,738 | 243.3 | 285.8 | D |
| 39 | Wetaskiwin Alberta | 13,703 | 279.7 | 291.8 | D |
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 La Crète in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 610 violent incidents a year in the 18,600-resident police area around La Crète, 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 830 property crimes and 370 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 La Crète
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Crète | 14,488 | 113.5 | 218.8 | C− |
| High Level (56 km) | 4,390 | 324 | 498.7 | D− |
| Manning (158 km) | 1,153 | 119.8 | 132.1 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over La Crète.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 56–158 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from La Crète.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
- A wider policing area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: La Crète together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 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.
Questions about safety in La Crète
Is La Crète safe?
La Crète scores 113.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 33.4 violent incidents and 45.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in La Crète?
Police record mischief most, 33 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (24) and other Criminal Code offences (13.2).
Is crime going up in La Crète?
It went up 38% between 2023 and 2025, from 90.6 to 125.3.
How much of La Crète’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 50% of crime (61% of violent crime, 36% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving La Crète 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).