Photo: Tara Zieminek · Public domainPer resident, Spruce Grove records more crime than 68% of Canadian towns
None of the 5 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Scored on crime the police covering Spruce Grove reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C for safety: #195 of 474 in Alberta. Add to that, its Crime Severity Index averaged 81.6 over 2023–2025, against 66 for the typical Canadian town its size. Annual rates stand at 15.0 violent incidents and 47.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 Spruce Grove
Mischief: high for a town its size
Spruce Grove records 16.6 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 ↓
Easing since 2023
From 92.6 in 2023 to 73 in 2025: that is Spruce Grove’s index, against 69.5 and 60 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Spruce Grove scores 76.3 for violence and 84.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 89.4 and 56. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Spruce Grove comes 28th, 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.
What’s behind Spruce Grove’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: #195 of 474 in Alberta and #1,738 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 Spruce Grove, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Spruce Grove runs highest on mischief (16.6 per 1,000 against 3.7), break and enter (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.2) and drug offences (1.3 per 1,000 against 0.8).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 17 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.2 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 16.3 | 0.4 | 57% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Other violent violations | 12.3 | 0.3 | 24% |
| Breaking and entering | 161.7 | 3.8 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 52.3 | 1.2 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 144.7 | 3.4 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 30.7 | 0.7 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 646.3 | 15.2 | 16% |
| Mischief | 710.3 | 16.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 23.7 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Administration of justice violations | 107.7 | 2.5 | 55% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 37.7 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 54.7 | 1.3 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 42.7 | 1 | 76% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.04 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Spruce Grove’s index dropped 21%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (92.6); the low point came in 2025, at 73. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Spruce Grove | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | 60 |
| 2024 | 79.1 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 92.6 | 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 Spruce Grove, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Spruce Grove is 28th 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+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Cochrane Alberta | 39,397 | 39.7 | 38.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux Quebec | 50,246 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 26 | Côte-Saint-Luc Quebec | 37,901 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 27 | Pointe-Claire Quebec | 37,437 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 28 | Spruce Grove Alberta | 44,575 | 81.6 | 76.3 | C |
| 29 | Leduc Alberta | 39,966 | 82.8 | 70.5 | C |
| 30 | Charlottetown Prince Edward Island | 48,118 | 86.1 | 87.1 | C |
| 31 | Orillia Ontario | 37,735 | 98.5 | 146.3 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Rocky View County Alberta | 50,260 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince Albert Saskatchewan | 40,728 | 295.8 | 470.9 | 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 Spruce Grove in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Spruce Grove’s police: about 640 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.
Property crime adds about 2,020 a year and other violations 640 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Spruce Grove
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Grove | 44,575 | 81.6 | 76.3 | C |
| Stony Plain | 19,662 | 88.4 | 74.6 | C |
| Parkland County | 34,286 | 121 | 115 | D |
| Enoch Cree Nation | 1,947 | — | — | — |
| Secord | 8,205 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Rosenthal | 4,873 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Suder Greens | 2,928 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
Spruce Grove has the lowest index of the places around it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Spruce Grove
Is Spruce Grove safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 81.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Spruce Grove stands, with 15 violent and 47.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Spruce Grove?
Most often it is mischief: 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 15.2 and other Criminal Code offences at 12.1.
Is crime going up in Spruce Grove?
It went down 21% between 2023 and 2025, from 92.6 to 73.
How much of Spruce Grove’s crime do police solve?
About 25% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 48% of violent and 17% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 33%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Spruce Grove’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).