Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Trochu than in 83% of Canadian towns
Year on year, 19.6 violent incidents and 36.4 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, the index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 110.8 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On crime the police covering Trochu reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Three Hills detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Trochu
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Trochu records 8.5 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 ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Trochu moved from 144.6 to 80.4, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A low clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 21% for Trochu (41% violent, 14% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Trochu scores 105.9 for violence and 113.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
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 Trochu, and how it is built
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 14 km off, which covers its own area rather than Trochu.
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.
In Trochu, down 44% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 144.6, against a low of 80.4 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Trochu | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 107.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 144.6 | 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 Trochu, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Trochu, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Trochu runs highest on break and enter (8.5 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (6.9 per 1,000 against 5.1). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 78.3 | 8.5 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 26.7 | 2.9 | 12% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.3 | 2.4 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 69 | 7.5 | 7% |
| Mischief | 66.7 | 7.2 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.8 | 37% |
| Administration of justice violations | 72.7 | 7.8 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 29 | 3.1 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 21.3 | 2.3 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 54 | 5.8 | 36% |
| 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.
The detachment closest to Trochu, 9,430 residents, recorded about 180 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 340 a year and other violations 230 (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 Trochu
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trochu | 1,191 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
| Kneehill County | 5,129 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
| Three Hills | 3,502 | 110.8 | 105.9 | C− |
Same police, same number: 2 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Trochu
Is Trochu safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Trochu’s Crime Severity Index stands at 110.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 19.6 violent incidents and 36.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Trochu?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 13.8, break and enter at 8.5 and assault at 7.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Trochu?
No: the index fell 44%, from 144.6 in 2023 to 80.4 in 2025.
How much of Trochu’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 21% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 41% of violent crime and 14% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Trochu 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).