Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainCrime per resident in Tofield runs higher than in 76% of Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is C−, on crime the police covering Tofield reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, in 2023 the index stood at 82.9; it rose to 94.3 in 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 81.2 and 102.3. Out of every 1,000 residents, 12.1 violent incidents and 41.3 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Measured across the Tofield detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Tofield
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Tofield records 7 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 81.2 on Tofield’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 102.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
Weighted by seriousness, 21% of crime in Tofield ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 51% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Much like Alberta’s towns
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Tofield scores 95.7. 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 C− for Tofield, and how it is built
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.
Which crimes make up Tofield’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Tofield runs highest on break and enter (7 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (9.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 52.7 | 7 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 34 | 4.5 | 23% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 29.7 | 3.9 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 1.1 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62 | 8.2 | 6% |
| Mischief | 74.3 | 9.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.3 | 2.3 | 60% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Drug violations | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 13 | 1.7 | 44% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Tofield, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (109.9) and 2023 the trough (82.9). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Tofield | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 109.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 82.9 | 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 Tofield, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Tofield is part of, 7,610 residents, recorded about 91 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.
Property crime adds about 310 a year and other violations 77 (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 Tofield
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tofield | 2,122 | 95.7 | 81.2 | C− |
| Beaver County (11 km) | 6,245 | 95.7 | 81.2 | C− |
| Camrose (42 km) | 20,800 | 96.3 | 96.4 | C− |
| Vegreville (42 km) | 6,153 | 138.4 | 107.9 | D |
| Strathcona County (43 km) | 107,345 | 68.4 | 61.3 | B− |
| Lamont County (44 km) | 3,918 | 95.7 | 81.2 | C− |
Tofield sits above 1 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. Closest is Strathcona County, 43.1 km away, at 68.4 to 95.7 here. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Tofield has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 11–44 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Tofield is one part.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
Questions about safety in Tofield
Is Tofield safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Tofield scores 95.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.1 violent and 41.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Tofield?
Police record mischief most, 9.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (8.2) and break and enter (7).
Is crime going up in Tofield?
It went up 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 82.9 to 94.3.
How much of Tofield’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 51% of violent crime and 12% of everything else, 21% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Tofield 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).