Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Blucher No. 343 sees less crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Measured on crime the police covering Blucher No. 343 reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B. Split in two, the index gives 56.3 for violence and 53.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). For every 1,000 residents, 10.8 violent incidents and 20.8 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 41% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 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. Shared with the rest of the Saskatoon detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Blucher No. 343
Under the Saskatchewan norm
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Blucher No. 343 scores 54.2. 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 sits behind Blucher No. 343’s B
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 23 km from Blucher No. 343, not to the town.
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.
Blucher No. 343’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Blucher No. 343 runs highest on mischief (5.6 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3 per 1,000 against 2.5). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Breaking and entering | 61 | 3 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22 | 1.1 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 46 | 2.3 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 13 | 0.6 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 79.3 | 3.9 | 21% |
| Mischief | 113.7 | 5.6 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 8 | 0.4 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.7 | 2.3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 1 | 57% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.5 | 40% |
| Impaired driving | 112.3 | 5.5 | 40% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 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.
Blucher No. 343’s index fell 13% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 57.5, against a low of 50.1 in 2025. 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 | Blucher No. 343 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 55 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 57.5 | 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 Blucher No. 343, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 220 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Blucher No. 343 (20,800 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.
Property crime adds about 420 a year and other violations 280 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Blucher No. 343
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blucher No. 343 | 2,239 | 54.2 | 56.3 | B |
| Aberdeen No. 373 | 1,585 | 88.5 | 83.2 | C |
| Rosewood | 8,427 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Hillcrest Management Area | 3,004 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in Blucher No. 343
Is Blucher No. 343 safe?
With 10.8 violent incidents and 20.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Blucher No. 343 comes to 54.2 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 Blucher No. 343?
The three biggest groups are Criminal Code traffic offences at 6.9, other Criminal Code offences at 5.9 and mischief at 5.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Blucher No. 343?
No: the index fell 13%, from 57.5 in 2023 to 50.1 in 2025.
How much of Blucher No. 343’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 41%: 71% for violent crime and 28% 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 Blucher No. 343 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).