Photo: Cszmurlo · CC BY 2.5Magrath records less crime per resident than 90% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 46.2 and 33.1. On the record of crime the police covering Magrath reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety: #4 of 474 in Alberta. Add to that, its police logs show 8.5 violent incidents and 15.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 38.7 to 34.6.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Raymond detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Magrath
Below Alberta’s typical town
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Magrath, 36.6. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Magrath comes 5th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. 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 Magrath’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 16 km off, which covers its own area rather than Magrath.
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: #4 of 474 in Alberta and #213 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.
Magrath’s crime by kind
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 1.9 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.7 | 25% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.3 | 1.3 | 25% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41 | 3.3 | 15% |
| Mischief | 52.3 | 4.2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 21 | 1.7 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 10 | 0.8 | 27% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Magrath is 5th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| 2 | Pembina Manitoba | 2,502 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| 3 | Dufferin Manitoba | 2,587 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| 4 | Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Quebec | 2,505 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Magrath Alberta | 2,566 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| 6 | Anmore British Columbia | 2,508 | 38.4 | 34.2 | A |
| 7 | Saint-Polycarpe Quebec | 2,549 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 8 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Nanton Alberta | 2,522 | 63.7 | 46 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Sexsmith Alberta | 2,561 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Rimbey Alberta | 2,502 | 110.1 | 69.4 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | 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 Magrath in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment nearest Magrath, 12,800 residents: around 110 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.
Property crime adds about 190 a year and other violations 53 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Magrath, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 38.7, and its lowest 2025, at 34.6. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Magrath | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 36.6 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 38.7 | 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 Magrath, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Magrath
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magrath | 2,566 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| Raymond (16 km) | 4,594 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| Stirling (26 km) | 1,350 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| Lethbridge (30 km) | 113,671 | 128.5 | 142 | D |
| Blood 148 (32 km) | 4,404 | 564.3 | 822.8 | D− |
| Warner County No. 5 (32 km) | 4,533 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Magrath. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Magrath has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 16–32 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. 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 Magrath
Is Magrath safe?
Magrath measures 36.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 8.5 violent incidents and 15.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Magrath?
Police record mischief most, 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of assault (3.5) and fraud (3.4).
Is crime going up in Magrath?
Down 10%: 38.7 in 2023, 34.6 in 2025.
How much of Magrath’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 32%: 48% for violent crime and 22% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Magrath 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).