Photo: Jack Borno · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Mountain View County than in 62% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 10.8 violent incidents and 19.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 78.3 for violence and 45.9 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Mountain View County reported from 2023 to 2025: #19 of 474 in Alberta. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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 Didsbury detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Mountain View County
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Mountain View County, 54.8. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Mountain View County comes 23rd, 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.
The B for Mountain View County, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Mountain View County itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 14 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.
Its place: #19 of 474 in Alberta and #703 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.
Mountain View County’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Mountain View County runs highest on mischief (4.9 per 1,000 against 3.7). 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 | 6 | 0.5 | 62% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30.7 | 2.4 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.6 | 17% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24 | 1.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7 | 0.5 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51 | 4 | 11% |
| Mischief | 62.7 | 4.9 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 31 | 2.4 | 57% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11.3 | 0.9 | 24% |
| Drug violations | 5.3 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Impaired driving | 28.7 | 2.2 | 74% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Year by year in Mountain View County: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (61.9) and 2025 the trough (50.1). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Mountain View County | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.1 | 60 |
| 2024 | 61.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 52.5 | 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 Mountain View County, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The detachment closest to Mountain View County, 13,300 residents, recorded about 140 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.
And about 240 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Mountain View County comes 23rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny Ontario | 14,195 | 27.9 | 36.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | High River Alberta | 15,508 | 50.5 | 56.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Sainte-Adèle Quebec | 15,216 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 21 | Limoges Ontario | 15,122 | 53.9 | 62.3 | B |
| 22 | Matane Quebec | 14,180 | 53.9 | 85.4 | B |
| 23 | Mountain View County Alberta | 14,802 | 54.8 | 78.3 | B |
| 24 | Gaspé Quebec | 15,479 | 57.9 | 106.1 | B |
| 25 | Carleton Place Ontario | 14,837 | 61.2 | 94.7 | B− |
| 26 | Lacombe Alberta | 14,733 | 61.7 | 47.6 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 38 | La Crète Alberta | 14,488 | 113.5 | 218.8 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 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 Mountain View County in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Mountain View County
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Mountain View County.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Mountain View County
Is Mountain View County safe?
Mountain View County measures 54.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 10.8 violent incidents and 19.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Mountain View County?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 5.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 4.9 and fraud at 4.6.
Is crime going up in Mountain View County?
Barely: 52.5 in 2023, 50.1 in 2025.
How much of Mountain View County’s crime do police solve?
About 38% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 62% of violent and 21% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Mountain View County 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).