Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · CC0For recorded crime, St. Albert sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Its 6 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, St. Albert lands on B (#22 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, the index fell from 64.3 in 2023 to 52.3 in 2025. In a usual year, 10.8 violent incidents and 35.0 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 10.8 and 25.1.
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 St. Albert
Mischief: high for a town its size
St. Albert records 8.9 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Lighter than Alberta’s middle
Within Alberta, the median town comes to 110 on the index, against 58.8 in St. Albert. Towns its size ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 22% of crime in St. Albert ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 40% of violent crime and 16% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 38%. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 51.1 on St. Albert’s index against 75.2 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 62.3 against 54.2. 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 St. Albert’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: #22 of 474 in Alberta and #888 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
St. Albert, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (64.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 52.3. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | St. Albert | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 59.7 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 64.3 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering St. Albert, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up St. Albert’s figures
Against the typical town its size, St. Albert runs highest on mischief (8.9 per 1,000 against 3.8), motor vehicle theft (2.5 per 1,000 against 1.7) and theft under $5,000 (14.3 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 18.7 | 0.3 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.08 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 13.7 | 0.2 | 58% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 12.3 | 0.2 | 30% |
| Breaking and entering | 197.7 | 2.7 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 55.7 | 0.8 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 183.3 | 2.5 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 38.7 | 0.5 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,052 | 14.3 | 11% |
| Mischief | 652.7 | 8.9 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 17.7 | 0.2 | 55% |
| Administration of justice violations | 265.7 | 3.6 | 76% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34 | 0.5 | 33% |
| Drug violations | 69 | 0.9 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 115.3 | 1.6 | 57% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.08 | 28% |
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 50,000 people or more.
Police in St. Albert recorded about 790 violent incidents a year, 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.
Add about 2,570 property crimes and 810 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
By its index, St. Albert stands 20th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repentigny Quebec | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Airdrie Alberta | 92,544 | 44.3 | 48.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Keswick Ontario | 53,630 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 18 | Welland Ontario | 66,480 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 19 | Port Coquitlam British Columbia | 67,724 | 58.2 | 52 | B |
| 20 | St. Albert Alberta | 74,621 | 58.8 | 51.1 | B |
| 21 | Granby Quebec | 72,180 | 62.6 | 92.5 | B− |
| 22 | Langford British Columbia | 59,664 | 65.9 | 65.9 | B− |
| 23 | Woodstock Ontario | 55,572 | 69.7 | 61.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Medicine Hat Alberta | 68,714 | 87.3 | 82.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 38 | Fort McMurray Alberta | 81,611 | 124.5 | 117.5 | D |
| 39 | Grande Prairie Alberta | 71,160 | 149.3 | 157.2 | D |
| 40 | Prince George British Columbia | 85,944 | 209.1 | 239.6 | 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 St. Albert in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around St. Albert
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Albert | 74,621 | 58.8 | 51.1 | B |
| Albany | 3,015 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Carlton | 5,502 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Oxford | 4,460 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Cumberland | 6,493 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Rapperswill | 3,639 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
| Hudson | 3,634 | 110 | 128.3 | C− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than St. Albert.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in St. Albert
Is St. Albert safe?
The short answer is an index of 58.8 for St. Albert (2023–2025), built from 10.8 violent incidents and 35 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in St. Albert?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 14.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 8.9 and other Criminal Code offences at 8.1.
Is crime going up in St. Albert?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 19%, to 52.3 from 64.3.
How much of St. Albert’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 22% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 40% of violent crime and 16% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
They are St. Albert’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).