Per resident, Canora records more crime than 68% of Canadian towns
Steady over the three years, the index read 76.8 in 2023 and 79.4 in 2025. Violence and property crime split as 23.7 violent incidents and 35.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. A Safety Grade of C follows from crime the police covering Canora reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 110.5 and other offences to 70.3, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Canora detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Canora
Mischief: high for a town its size
Canora records 15.6 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 ↓
Lighter than Saskatchewan’s middle
Within Saskatchewan, the median town comes to 118.6 on the index, against 81.3 in Canora. 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.
The C for Canora, and how it is built
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.
Canora’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Canora runs highest on mischief (15.6 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7) and break and enter (3.6 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 | 5 | 0.6 | 46% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 28.7 | 3.6 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.3 | 0.8 | 11% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11 | 1.4 | 18% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 55 | 6.8 | 27% |
| Mischief | 125 | 15.6 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.7 | 78% |
| Administration of justice violations | 70 | 8.7 | 77% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 1.1 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 18 | 2.2 | 52% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Around 190 violent incidents a year in the 8,050-resident police area around Canora, 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 280 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Canora, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (87.7) and 2023 the trough (76.8). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Canora | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 87.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 76.8 | 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 Canora, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Canora
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canora | 2,179 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Kamsack (39 km) | 1,849 | 233 | 320.7 | D |
| Preeceville (40 km) | 1,046 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Preeceville No. 334 (40 km) | 1,043 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Yorkton (47 km) | 17,543 | 175.2 | 185.2 | D |
The places around Canora all score higher on the index. Same police, same number: 2 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Canora has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 39–47 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Canora is one part.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Canora
Is Canora safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Canora’s Crime Severity Index stands at 81.3 for 2023–2025. Its police record 23.7 violent incidents and 35.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Canora?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 15.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (15.6) and assault (10).
Is crime going up in Canora?
Barely: 76.8 in 2023, 79.4 in 2025.
How much of Canora’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 38%: 53% 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 Canora 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).