Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Davidson has more crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 89.7 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, the local count comes to 15.3 violent incidents and 35.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. It grades C for safety on crime the police covering Davidson reported from 2023 to 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Craik detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Davidson
Heavier on property and other crime
Davidson scores 63.8 for violence and 100.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Below Saskatchewan’s typical town
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Davidson scores 89.7. 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 Davidson, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Davidson itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 27 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.
Crime in Davidson, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Davidson runs highest on break and enter (5.1 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (8.1 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (7.6 per 1,000 against 5.1). 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 | 1.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18 | 5.1 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.3 | 2.6 | 25% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12 | 3.4 | 36% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.9 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 7.1 | 21% |
| Mischief | 29 | 8.1 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 1.4 | 60% |
| Administration of justice violations | 30.7 | 8.6 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.9 | — |
| Drug violations | 4.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 28.3 | 8 | 75% |
| 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.
The detachment nearest Davidson, 3,660 residents: around 55 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 130 a year and other violations 100 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Davidson’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 115.5 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 57.6 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Davidson | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 96 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 115.5 | 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 Davidson, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Davidson
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson | 1,164 | 89.7 | 63.8 | C |
| Watrous (58 km) | 2,154 | 55 | 50.9 | B |
| Dundurn No. 314 (75 km) | 2,479 | 54.2 | 56.3 | B |
| McKillop No. 220 (75 km) | 1,023 | 63.6 | 43.3 | B− |
| Outlook (78 km) | 2,629 | 42 | 39.6 | A− |
The places around Davidson all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Watrous (58.5 km away), scores 55 against 89.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 58–78 km from Davidson.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 3,659 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Davidson
Is Davidson safe?
The short answer is an index of 89.7 for Davidson (2023–2025), built from 15.3 violent incidents and 35.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Davidson?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 14.5, Criminal Code traffic offences at 11.5 and mischief at 8.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Davidson?
The reverse: 115.5 in 2023 came down to 57.6 by 2025, 50% lower. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Davidson’s crime do police solve?
About 32% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 57% of violent and 25% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Davidson and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).