Photo: dfaulder · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Two Hills than in 85% of Canadian towns
Measured on crime the police covering Two Hills reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C−. Its violent half comes to 74.4 and its non-violent half to 138, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Each year brought 13.2 violent incidents and 48.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Within Alberta, half the towns score under 110.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Two Hills detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Two Hills
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Two Hills records 13.9 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
Two Hills’s index splits into violent crime, 74.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 138 against 62.8. By type ↓
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Two Hills moved from 131.8 to 101.7, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A low clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Two Hills’s police clear 25%, 71% of violent crime and 15% of the rest. Questions ↓
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 Two Hills, 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.
What police record in Two Hills, by type
Against the typical town its size, Two Hills runs highest on break and enter (13.9 per 1,000 against 2.5), motor vehicle theft (6.5 per 1,000 against 2.4) and mischief (9.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 94 | 13.9 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 16.3 | 2.4 | 37% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 44 | 6.5 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13.7 | 2 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 53 | 7.9 | 15% |
| Mischief | 62 | 9.2 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 20 | 2.9 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.7 | 1.3 | 31% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 16 | 2.4 | 71% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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.
Two Hills’s index fell 23% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (131.8); the low point came in 2025, at 101.7. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Two Hills | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 123.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 131.8 | 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 Two Hills, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Two Hills is part of, 6,910 residents, recorded about 90 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 330 property crimes, plus 73 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 Two Hills
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Hills | 1,698 | 119.1 | 74.4 | C− |
| Two Hills County No. 21 (10 km) | 3,626 | 119.1 | 74.4 | C− |
| Minburn County No. 27 (25 km) | 3,142 | 126.5 | 60.8 | D |
| Vegreville (32 km) | 6,153 | 138.4 | 107.9 | D |
| St. Paul (43 km) | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | D− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Two Hills. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 10–43 km from Two Hills.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Two Hills together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Two Hills
Is Two Hills safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 119.1 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Two Hills stands, with 13.2 violent and 48.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Two Hills?
The three biggest groups are break and enter at 13.9, mischief at 9.2 and theft under $5,000 at 7.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Two Hills?
The reverse: 131.8 in 2023 came down to 101.7 by 2025, 23% lower.
How much of Two Hills’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 25% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 71% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Two Hills together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).