Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Biggar sees more crime per resident than 68% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 81.6, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, its letter for safety is C, worked out from crime the police covering Biggar reported over 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 14.4 violent incidents and 45.6 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Steady over the three years, the index read 83.9 in 2023 and 81.6 in 2025.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Biggar detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Biggar
Mischief: high for a town its size
Biggar records 15.3 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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Biggar’s index splits into violent crime, 52.5 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 93.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Under the Saskatchewan norm
Biggar’s index of 81.6 compares with 118.6 for the typical town in Saskatchewan. 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 Biggar’s grade
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 Biggar, by type
Against the typical town its size, Biggar runs highest on mischief (15.3 per 1,000 against 4.2), fraud (9.2 per 1,000 against 5.1) and break and enter (4 per 1,000 against 2.5). 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 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.7 | 4 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13.3 | 2.6 | 13% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 3 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 1.2 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49 | 9.5 | 20% |
| Mischief | 78.7 | 15.3 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.3 | 10.6 | 64% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9 | 1.8 | 41% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
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 police area Biggar is part of, 5,200 residents, recorded about 74 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 230 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Biggar, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 83.9, and 2024 the lightest at 79.2. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Biggar | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 79.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 83.9 | 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 Biggar, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Biggar
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biggar | 2,337 | 81.6 | 52.5 | C |
| Rosetown (55 km) | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| Wilkie (63 km) | 1,261 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| Vanscoy No. 345 (68 km) | 3,029 | 54.2 | 56.3 | B |
| Battle River No. 438 (72 km) | 1,080 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
| Langham (78 km) | 1,793 | 88.5 | 83.2 | C |
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Biggar. Just 55.5 km away, Rosetown comes to 54.6, against 81.6.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 55–78 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Biggar.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Biggar is one part.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Biggar
Is Biggar safe?
With 14.4 violent incidents and 45.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Biggar comes to 81.6 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 Biggar?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 18.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 15.3 and theft under $5,000 at 9.5.
Is crime going up in Biggar?
Barely: 83.9 in 2023, 81.6 in 2025.
How much of Biggar’s crime do police solve?
About 31% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 70% of violent and 23% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Biggar 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).