Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.0Stirling has less crime per resident than 90% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 46.2 and 33.1. Graded on crime the police covering Stirling reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A for safety. Add to that, each year brought 8.5 violent incidents and 15.3 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). By 2025 the index had dropped to 34.6, down from 38.7 in 2023.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Raymond detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Stirling
Below Alberta’s typical town
Stirling’s index of 36.6 compares with 110 for the typical town in Alberta. 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.
The A for Stirling, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 11 km from Stirling, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
The detachment closest to Stirling, 12,800 residents, recorded about 110 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.
And about 190 property crimes, plus 53 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Stirling, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (38.7); the low point came in 2025, at 34.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stirling | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 36.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 38.7 | 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 Stirling, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Stirling, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 1.9 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.7 | 25% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.3 | 1.3 | 25% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41 | 3.3 | 15% |
| Mischief | 52.3 | 4.2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 21 | 1.7 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 10 | 0.8 | 27% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Crime in the places around Stirling
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | 1,350 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| Raymond | 4,594 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
| Warner County No. 5 | 4,533 | 36.6 | 46.2 | A |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Stirling
Is Stirling safe?
Police-reported crime in Stirling scores 36.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.5 violent incidents and 15.3 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 Stirling?
Most often it is mischief: 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 3.5 and fraud at 3.4.
Is crime going up in Stirling?
No: the index fell 10%, from 38.7 in 2023 to 34.6 in 2025.
How much of Stirling’s crime do police solve?
32%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 48% and non-violent crime at 22%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Stirling and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).