Big River No. 555 has more crime per resident than almost every Canadian town
Of the two halves, violence comes to 685.3 and other offences to 370.4, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Graded on crime the police covering Big River No. 555 reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D− for safety. What’s more, each year brought 100.9 violent incidents and 160.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). For solved cases, the weighted rate is 39%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%.
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. Measured across the Big River detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Big River No. 555
A busy place, counted per resident
With 47% of its homes not lived in all year, Big River No. 555 counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Big River No. 555 records 89.6 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 ↓
Above Saskatchewan’s typical town
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Big River No. 555 scores 457.6. Towns its size ↓
The violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 685.3 on Big River No. 555’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 370.4 against 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.
Big River No. 555: D− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Big River No. 555 itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 3 km away.
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.
Which crimes make up Big River No. 555’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Big River No. 555 runs highest on mischief (89.6 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (26 per 1,000 against 2.4) and assault (67.2 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.3 | 1.2 | 25% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 1.9 | 88% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 16.7 | 3.8 | 66% |
| Robbery | 14.3 | 3.3 | 72% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 1.6 | 53% |
| Breaking and entering | 59.3 | 13.6 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19.7 | 4.5 | 34% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 113.3 | 26 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 1.1 | 20% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79.3 | 18.2 | 18% |
| Mischief | 389.7 | 89.6 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 20 | 4.6 | 54% |
| Administration of justice violations | 333 | 76.5 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34.7 | 8 | 54% |
| Drug violations | 22 | 5.1 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 106 | 24.4 | 28% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
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 Big River No. 555, 4,360 residents: around 440 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 700 property crimes, plus 660 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
The index in Big River No. 555, each year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 485.2, and 2024 the lightest at 423.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Big River No. 555 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 463.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 423.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 485.2 | 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 Big River No. 555, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Big River No. 555
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big River No. 555 | 1,008 | 457.6 | 685.3 | D− |
| Canwood No. 494 (47 km) | 1,398 | 457.6 | 685.3 | D− |
| Spiritwood (66 km) | 1,005 | 370.8 | 524.1 | D− |
| Spiritwood No. 496 (74 km) | 1,291 | 370.8 | 524.1 | D− |
| Lakeland No. 521 (77 km) | 1,393 | 332.1 | 425.8 | D− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Big River No. 555. Closest is Spiritwood, 66.3 km away, at 370.8 to 457.6 here. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Big River No. 555 with figures are 47–77 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Small numbers. With roughly 4,359 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. 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.
Questions about safety in Big River No. 555
Is Big River No. 555 safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Big River No. 555 scores 457.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 100.9 violent and 160.1 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Big River No. 555?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 108.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 89.6 and assault at 67.2.
Is crime going up in Big River No. 555?
The index stayed close to where it was, 485.2 in 2023 and 463.7 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Big River No. 555’s crime do police solve?
39%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 54% and non-violent crime at 29%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Big River No. 555 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).