Photo: Kappakapa · CC BY 3.0Per resident, Nobleford records less crime than 91% of Canadian towns
Police clear 27% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. It grades A for safety on crime the police covering Nobleford reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 5.2 violent incidents and 15.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 34 for violence and 36.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Picture Butte detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Nobleford
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Nobleford moved from 46.9 to 26, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Under the Alberta norm
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Nobleford, 35.7. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Nobleford’s index splits into violent crime, 34 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 36.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Nobleford’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 19 km off, which covers its own area rather than Nobleford.
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Nobleford’s index dropped 45%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 46.9, against a low of 26 in 2025. 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 | Nobleford | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 34.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 46.9 | 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 Nobleford, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 46 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Nobleford (9,030 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 130 property crimes, plus 40 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
What police record in Nobleford, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 2.7 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 1.2 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 2.1 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19 | 2.1 | 9% |
| Mischief | 39 | 4.4 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 14.7 | 1.7 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| 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 2,500 people or more.
Crime in the places around Nobleford
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nobleford | 1,694 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| Coalhurst | 3,244 | 35.7 | 34 | A |
| Lethbridge County | 10,988 | 96 | 62 | C− |
The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Nobleford
Is Nobleford safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 35.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Nobleford stands, with 5.2 violent and 15.2 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Nobleford?
Top of the list is mischief (4.4 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 3.6, and break and enter, at 2.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Nobleford?
It went down 45% between 2023 and 2025, from 46.9 to 26.
How much of Nobleford’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 27% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 50% of violent and 18% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Nobleford 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).