Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Rimbey than in 82% of Canadian towns
About 22% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, the index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 110.1 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. A Safety Grade of C− follows from crime the police covering Rimbey reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #229 of 474 in Alberta. In a usual year, 11.2 violent incidents and 49.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 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. Shared with the rest of the Rimbey detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Rimbey
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Rimbey records 10 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Easing since 2023
Rimbey’s index went from 134.7 in 2023 to 88.7 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Rimbey scores 69.4 for violence and 127.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Rimbey stands 37th, the lowest first. 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 sits behind Rimbey’s C−
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: #229 of 474 in Alberta and #2,009 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Rimbey’s index fell 34% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 134.7; the lightest was 2025, at 88.7. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rimbey | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 106.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 134.7 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Rimbey, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Rimbey, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Rimbey runs highest on break and enter (10 per 1,000 against 2.8), mischief (11.3 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.6). 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 | 6.3 | 0.8 | 90% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 80 | 10 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 28.7 | 3.6 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 35 | 4.4 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.7 | 3.1 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 81.7 | 10.2 | 5% |
| Mischief | 91 | 11.3 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 29.3 | 3.6 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.7 | 1.8 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 28 | 3.5 | 43% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Rimbey places 37th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 5 | Magrath Alberta | 2,566 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Nanton Alberta | 2,522 | 63.7 | 46 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Sexsmith Alberta | 2,561 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| 35 | Gracefield Quebec | 2,544 | 90.6 | 152.3 | C |
| 36 | Unity Saskatchewan | 2,543 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| 37 | Rimbey Alberta | 2,502 | 110.1 | 69.4 | C− |
| 38 | Saint-Chrysostome Quebec | 2,641 | 120.3 | 141 | D |
| 39 | Brooke-Alvinston Ontario | 2,557 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | 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 Rimbey in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 90 violent incidents a year across the police area of 8,080 residents that includes Rimbey, 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 400 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.
Crime in the places around Rimbey
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rimbey | 2,502 | 110.1 | 69.4 | C− |
| Ponoka County (22 km) | 10,670 | 67.6 | 54.5 | B− |
| Bentley (24 km) | 1,153 | 67.3 | 43.3 | B− |
| Eckville (33 km) | 1,088 | 67.3 | 43.3 | B− |
| Lacombe County (37 km) | 11,072 | 94.9 | 66.9 | C− |
| Sylvan Lake (39 km) | 17,897 | 82.3 | 83.4 | C |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Rimbey. Closest is Ponoka County, 22.2 km away, at 67.6 to 110.1 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Rimbey with figures are 22–39 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Rimbey’s are shared with its surroundings.
Questions about safety in Rimbey
Is Rimbey safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Rimbey scores 110.1 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 11.2 violent and 49.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Rimbey?
Most often it is mischief: 11.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 10.2 and break and enter at 10.
Is crime going up in Rimbey?
Down 34%: 134.7 in 2023, 88.7 in 2025.
How much of Rimbey’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 22% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 58% of violent and 14% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rimbey 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).