Photo: Mhalifu · CC BY-SA 3.0Peace No. 135 records more crime per resident than 77% of Canadian towns
That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Peace No. 135 reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, in 2023 the index stood at 101; it fell to 90.1 in 2025. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 96 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Its police logs show 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Fairview detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Peace No. 135
Mischief: high for a town its size
Peace No. 135 records 14.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 62 on Peace No. 135’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 110.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
About the Alberta norm
Within Alberta, the median town comes to 110 on the index, against 96 in Peace No. 135. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 26% of crime in Peace No. 135 ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 56% of violent crime and 19% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Peace No. 135: C− for safety, and why
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 49 km off, which covers its own area rather than Peace No. 135.
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.
Which crimes make up Peace No. 135’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Peace No. 135 runs highest on mischief (14.2 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (8.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.4). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 65.7 | 8.2 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.7 | 2.1 | 20% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30.7 | 3.8 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 1.2 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.7 | 8.6 | 11% |
| Mischief | 113.7 | 14.2 | 15% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 35 | 4.4 | 60% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.3 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 11 | 1.4 | 39% |
| Impaired driving | 20.7 | 2.6 | 66% |
| 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.
Peace No. 135, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 101; the lightest was 2025, at 90.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Peace No. 135 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 97 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101 | 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 Peace No. 135, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 110 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Peace No. 135 (8,040 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 350 property crimes, plus 130 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 Peace No. 135
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace No. 135 | 1,581 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Grimshaw | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Peace River | 7,220 | 254.7 | 229 | D |
| Northern Sunrise County | 1,848 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
Peace No. 135 sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 18.3 km away, Northern Sunrise County comes to 91.3, against 96. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Peace No. 135
Is Peace No. 135 safe?
Police-reported crime in Peace No. 135 scores 96 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 13.2 violent incidents and 44.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Peace No. 135?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 14.2, other Criminal Code offences at 10.1 and theft under $5,000 at 8.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Peace No. 135?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 11%, to 90.1 from 101.
How much of Peace No. 135’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 26% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 56% of violent and 19% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Peace No. 135 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).