Photo: runran from An island in the stream · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Yellowhead records more crime than four in five Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 149.1 and other offences for 96.6, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. For solved cases, the weighted rate is 40%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Yellowhead reported over 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 18.7 violent incidents and 35.0 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Yellowhead detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Yellowhead
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Yellowhead 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 ↓
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Yellowhead stood at 103.6, by 2025 at 129.5. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Near the Manitoba middle
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Yellowhead, 111. 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.
Inside Yellowhead’s C− for safety
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.
Yellowhead’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Yellowhead runs highest on break and enter (8.5 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (11.1 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (5.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.6 | 93% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 84.7 | 8.5 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7 | 0.7 | 39% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 51 | 5.1 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.7 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51.3 | 5.2 | 13% |
| Mischief | 110.3 | 11.1 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 58.7 | 5.9 | 58% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.1 | 47% |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.7 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 54.3 | 5.5 | 28% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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.
In Yellowhead, up 25% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (129.5); 2024 was the low point, at 99.8. 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 | Yellowhead | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 103.6 | 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 Yellowhead, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 190 violent incidents a year in the 9,930-resident police area around Yellowhead, 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 350 property crimes, plus 200 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 Yellowhead
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowhead | 1,867 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Hamiota (28 km) | 1,210 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Rossburn (31 km) | 1,015 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Prairie View (32 km) | 2,149 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Harrison Park (33 km) | 1,916 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Oakview (47 km) | 1,670 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
5 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 28–47 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Yellowhead.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Yellowhead together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Yellowhead
Is Yellowhead safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Yellowhead’s Crime Severity Index stands at 111 for 2023–2025. Its police record 18.7 violent incidents and 35 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Yellowhead?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 11.1 and assault at 10.7.
Is crime going up in Yellowhead?
Yes: the index rose 25%, from 103.6 in 2023 to 129.5 in 2025.
How much of Yellowhead’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 40%: 71% for violent crime and 20% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Yellowhead 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).