Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Vauxhall sees less crime per resident than 96% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 30.1 for violence and 29.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Out of every 1,000 residents, 4.7 violent incidents and 11.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on crime the police covering Vauxhall reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ 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 Taber detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Vauxhall
Below Alberta’s typical town
Set among Alberta’s towns, whose median is 110, Vauxhall scores 29.4. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Vauxhall scores 30.1 for violence and 29.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Vauxhall’s index went from 23.4 in 2023 to 33.1 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Vauxhall’s A+
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 31 km off, which covers its own area rather than Vauxhall.
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.
Vauxhall’s index rose 41% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 33.1 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 23.4. 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 | Vauxhall | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 31.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 23.4 | 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 Vauxhall, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 52 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Vauxhall (11,100 residents), 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 130 property crimes, plus 48 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 Vauxhall, type by type
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 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 17 | 1.5 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 0.8 | 11% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.7 | 1.5 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21 | 1.9 | 11% |
| Mischief | 30.3 | 2.8 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 24.7 | 2.2 | 92% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 6.7 | 0.6 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 Vauxhall
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vauxhall | 1,451 | 29.4 | 30.1 | A+ |
| Taber (18 km) | 8,009 | 29.4 | 30.1 | A+ |
| Taber (31 km) | 10,175 | 84.8 | 74.7 | C |
| Barnwell (36 km) | 1,073 | 29.4 | 30.1 | A+ |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 18–36 km from Vauxhall.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. 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 Vauxhall
Is Vauxhall safe?
With 4.7 violent incidents and 11.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Vauxhall comes to 29.4 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Vauxhall?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (2.8) and assault (2.3).
Is crime going up in Vauxhall?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 41%, to 33.1 from 23.4.
How much of Vauxhall’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 36% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 63% of violent and 23% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Vauxhall 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).