Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Millet records more crime than 77% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 96.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Even so, the grade is C−, built on crime the police covering Millet reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 9.9 violent incidents and 35.9 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Wetaskiwin detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Millet
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Millet records 7.2 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Down since 2023
From 111.6 in 2023 to 76 in 2025: that is Millet’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 70.6 on Millet’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 108 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to Alberta’s typical town
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Millet scores 96.7. 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 Millet’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Millet has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 15 km away.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Year by year in Millet: down 32%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 111.6, and its lowest 2025, at 76. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Millet | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 102.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 111.6 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Millet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Millet’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Millet runs highest on break and enter (7.2 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (7.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 74.7 | 7.2 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 27.3 | 2.6 | 56% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 42 | 4.1 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.3 | 1.2 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 76 | 7.3 | 4% |
| Mischief | 82 | 7.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.5 | 58% |
| Administration of justice violations | 37.7 | 3.6 | 86% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.3 | 1.8 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 1.2 | 65% |
| Impaired driving | 47.7 | 4.6 | 96% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
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 people or more.
About 100 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Millet (10,600 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.
And about 370 property crimes, plus 200 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Millet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millet | 1,967 | 96.7 | 70.6 | C− |
| Wetaskiwin | 13,703 | 279.7 | 291.8 | D |
| Leduc County | 16,400 | 162.1 | 88.2 | D |
| Leduc | 39,966 | 82.8 | 70.5 | C |
Millet sits above 1 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. Leduc, 19 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 82.8 to 96.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Millet
Is Millet safe?
Millet’s Crime Severity Index is 96.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.9 violent incidents and 35.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Millet?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 10.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (7.9) and Criminal Code traffic offences (7.5).
Is crime going up in Millet?
It went down 32% between 2023 and 2025, from 111.6 to 76.
How much of Millet’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 25% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 37% of violent crime and 21% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Millet and everywhere else it polices.
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).