Photo: Xz1303 · CC BY-SA 3.0Okotoks sees less crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 41.4 to 45.8. Even so, that puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Okotoks reported from 2023 to 2025: #11 of 474 in Alberta. Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 48.7 and 40.3. Among its 6 neighbours with figures, only one 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.
What stands out about safety in Okotoks
Below Alberta’s typical town
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Okotoks scores 42.5. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Okotoks is 8th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Okotoks scores 48.7 for violence and 40.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 89.4 and 56. By type ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Okotoks records 7.9 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 ↓
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 Okotoks’s grade
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: #11 of 474 in Alberta and #319 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.
Crime in Okotoks, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Okotoks runs highest on mischief (7.9 per 1,000 against 3.7). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 45% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 23% |
| Breaking and entering | 48.3 | 1.5 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16 | 0.5 | 25% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43 | 1.3 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.3 | 0.4 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 196.7 | 5.9 | 14% |
| Mischief | 261.7 | 7.9 | 15% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Administration of justice violations | 64.7 | 2 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 24.7 | 0.7 | 36% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 91 | 2.8 | 36% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
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.
Okotoks is 8th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 22.9 | 17.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Rockland Ontario | 30,375 | 38.2 | 56.7 | A |
| 6 | Saint-Constant Quebec | 32,124 | 41.6 | 59.8 | A− |
| 7 | Magog Quebec | 30,764 | 42 | 55.3 | A− |
| 8 | Okotoks Alberta | 33,482 | 42.5 | 48.7 | A− |
| 9 | Chestermere Alberta | 31,671 | 43.2 | 43.5 | A− |
| 10 | Port Moody British Columbia | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| 11 | Orangeville Ontario | 33,070 | 43.5 | 50.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Fort Saskatchewan Alberta | 30,575 | 78.4 | 82.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Parkland County Alberta | 34,286 | 121 | 115 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | 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 Okotoks in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Okotoks, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 45.8, with 2024 the lightest at 40.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Okotoks | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 40.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 41.4 | 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 Okotoks, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Okotoks’s police: about 310 violent incidents a year over 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 730 property crimes, plus 340 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 Okotoks
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okotoks | 33,482 | 42.5 | 48.7 | A− |
| Foothills County | 25,789 | 39.1 | 30.5 | A |
| Legacy | 7,975 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Walden | 8,190 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| High River | 15,508 | 50.5 | 56.6 | B+ |
| Cranston | 20,055 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Chaparral | 12,522 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
1 of the 6 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Okotoks. Just 5.4 km away, Foothills County comes to 39.1, against 42.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Okotoks
Is Okotoks safe?
With 9.5 violent incidents and 22.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Okotoks comes to 42.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people have a median of 66.
What is the most common crime in Okotoks?
Most often it is mischief: 7.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.9.
Is crime going up in Okotoks?
Yes: the index rose 11%, from 41.4 in 2023 to 45.8 in 2025.
How much of Okotoks’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 25%: 41% for violent crime and 18% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Okotoks alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).