Battle River No. 438 records more crime per resident than 97% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Battle River No. 438 reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety. Year on year, 63.2 violent incidents and 134.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 479.8 for violence and 299.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 390.5 to 353.3.
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. Shared with the rest of the North Battleford detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Battle River No. 438
Mischief: high for a town its size
Battle River No. 438 records 77 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than most of Saskatchewan
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Battle River No. 438, 349.1. 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.
What’s behind Battle River No. 438’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 9 km off, which covers its own area rather than Battle River No. 438.
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.
Crime in Battle River No. 438, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Battle River No. 438 runs highest on mischief (77 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (15.2 per 1,000 against 2.4) and assault (38.5 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11 | 1 | 66% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 17 | 1.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 26 | 2.3 | 35% |
| Robbery | 17 | 1.5 | 61% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 5.7 | 0.5 | 53% |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 133.3 | 11.7 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 101.3 | 8.9 | 18% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 172.7 | 15.2 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11 | 1 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 133.3 | 11.7 | 11% |
| Mischief | 878 | 77 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 54.7 | 4.8 | 49% |
| Administration of justice violations | 400 | 35.1 | 76% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 57 | 5 | 49% |
| Drug violations | 39.7 | 3.5 | 25% |
| Impaired driving | 144.3 | 12.7 | 38% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 4 | 0.4 | — |
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 nearest Battle River No. 438, 11,400 residents: around 720 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 1,530 a year and other violations 1,140 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Battle River No. 438, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 390.5, against a low of 303.4 in 2024. 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 | Battle River No. 438 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 353.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 303.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 390.5 | 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 Battle River No. 438, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Battle River No. 438
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle River No. 438 | 1,080 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
| Battleford | 4,657 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
| North Battleford | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | D− |
Same police, same number: one neighbour drops out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
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. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Battle River No. 438
Is Battle River No. 438 safe?
Its police recorded 63.2 violent incidents and 134.5 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Battle River No. 438 a Crime Severity Index of 349.1. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Battle River No. 438?
Mischief is the most common, at 77 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (74) and assault (38.5).
Is crime going up in Battle River No. 438?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 10%, to 353.3 from 390.5.
How much of Battle River No. 438’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 50% of violent crime and 25% of everything else, 35% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Battle River No. 438 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).