Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainPer resident, Strathcona County records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
None of the 6 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Strathcona County’s Safety Grade, B− (#187 of 474 in Alberta), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. In a usual year, 12.5 violent incidents and 36.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 10.8 and 25.1. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 68.4 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 60.3.
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 Strathcona County
Mischief: high for a town its size
Strathcona County records 9.2 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 68.4 in Strathcona County. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Strathcona County scores 61.3 for violence and 71.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 75.2 and 54.2. By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 25% for Strathcona County (44% violent, 18% non-violent), beside 38% for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Strathcona County’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: #187 of 474 in Alberta and #1,340 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.
Crime in Strathcona County, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Strathcona County runs highest on mischief (9.2 per 1,000 against 3.8), drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9) and fraud (6.6 per 1,000 against 5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 15.7 | 0.2 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.7 | 0.1 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.08 | 72% |
| Robbery | 12.3 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 6.3 | 0.08 | 59% |
| Other violent violations | 20.7 | 0.3 | 35% |
| Breaking and entering | 209.3 | 2.8 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 117.3 | 1.5 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 138.3 | 1.8 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 50.3 | 0.7 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,046.3 | 13.7 | 16% |
| Mischief | 702.3 | 9.2 | 20% |
| Weapons violations | 34.3 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Administration of justice violations | 302.7 | 4 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 60.7 | 0.8 | 36% |
| Drug violations | 111.7 | 1.5 | 39% |
| Impaired driving | 193 | 2.5 | 43% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.00 | — |
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.
Year by year in Strathcona County: up 7%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 71.8, and 2024 lowest at 66.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Strathcona County | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.8 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 66.4 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 67.2 | 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 Strathcona County, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Strathcona County places 18th
| # | 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− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Niagara Falls Ontario | 113,983 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 16 | St. Albert Alberta | 74,621 | 58.8 | 51.1 | B |
| 17 | Delta British Columbia | 124,670 | 59.7 | 69.8 | B− |
| 18 | Strathcona County Alberta | 107,345 | 68.4 | 61.3 | B− |
| 19 | Peterborough Ontario | 97,834 | 71.7 | 89.4 | C+ |
| 20 | Chatham Ontario | 112,716 | 72.1 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 21 | Drummondville Quebec | 85,560 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Fort McMurray Alberta | 81,611 | 124.5 | 117.5 | D |
| 35 | Red Deer Alberta | 115,409 | 126.8 | 134.3 | D |
| 36 | Lethbridge Alberta | 113,671 | 128.5 | 142 | 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 Strathcona County in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 960 violent incidents a year reached Strathcona County’s police, 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 2,790 property crimes, plus 1,280 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 Strathcona County
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Strathcona County.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Strathcona County
Is Strathcona County safe?
Its police recorded 12.5 violent incidents and 36.7 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Strathcona County a Crime Severity Index of 68.4. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Strathcona County?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 13.7, other Criminal Code offences at 12.1 and mischief at 9.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Strathcona County?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 7%, to 71.8 from 67.2.
How much of Strathcona County’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 25% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 44% of violent and 18% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Strathcona County alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).