Photo: Kjfmartin · CC BY-SA 3.0Esterhazy sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 66.4 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Violence and property crime split as 10.0 violent incidents and 25.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. All told, Esterhazy grades B− for safety (#10 of 104 in Saskatchewan): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Esterhazy detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Esterhazy
Lighter than in 2023
Esterhazy’s index went from 92.9 in 2023 to 46.1 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Below Saskatchewan’s typical town
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Esterhazy scores 66.4. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Esterhazy is 24th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Esterhazy records 7.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
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 Esterhazy’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.
Its place: #10 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #1,018 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Year by year in Esterhazy: down 50%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 92.9 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 46.1. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Esterhazy | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 60.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 92.9 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Esterhazy, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Esterhazy’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Esterhazy runs highest on mischief (7.4 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.8). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.7 | 3.7 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.9 | 29% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 21 | 2.4 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 1 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 47 | 5.3 | 19% |
| Mischief | 65.7 | 7.4 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 27 | 3.1 | 69% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 0.6 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 6.3 | 0.7 | 32% |
| Impaired driving | 34 | 3.9 | 43% |
| 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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Esterhazy places 24th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | Outlook Saskatchewan | 2,629 | 42 | 39.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Rosetown Saskatchewan | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Lunenburg Nova Scotia | 2,523 | 63.1 | 76.8 | B− |
| 22 | Nanton Alberta | 2,522 | 63.7 | 46 | B− |
| 23 | Division No. 7, Subdivision E Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,632 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| 24 | Esterhazy Saskatchewan | 2,513 | 66.4 | 84.4 | B− |
| 25 | Clearwater British Columbia | 2,500 | 69.5 | 47 | C+ |
| 26 | Cap-Chat Quebec | 2,519 | 70.1 | 128 | C+ |
| 27 | Berwick Nova Scotia | 2,631 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Unity Saskatchewan | 2,543 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Prairie Alberta | 2,607 | 334.5 | 521.9 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Esterhazy in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
8,850 residents, about 89 violent incidents a year: the police area Esterhazy belongs to, 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 230 a year and other violations 110 (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 Esterhazy
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esterhazy | 2,513 | 66.4 | 84.4 | B− |
| Langenburg (34 km) | 1,256 | 66.4 | 84.4 | B− |
| Russell (54 km) | 2,715 | 170 | 183.3 | D |
| Melville (60 km) | 4,547 | 104.2 | 145.1 | C− |
| Moosomin (64 km) | 2,906 | 68.2 | 62.3 | B− |
| Grenfell (66 km) | 1,203 | 163.5 | 272.2 | D |
The places around Esterhazy all score higher on the index. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Esterhazy with figures are 34–66 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared with the countryside. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Esterhazy’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Esterhazy
Is Esterhazy safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 66.4 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people: that is where Esterhazy stands, with 10 violent and 25.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Esterhazy?
Police record mischief most, 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (6.8) and theft under $5,000 (5.3).
Is crime going up in Esterhazy?
The reverse: 92.9 in 2023 came down to 46.1 by 2025, 50% lower.
How much of Esterhazy’s crime do police solve?
About 33% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 53% of violent and 20% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Esterhazy 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).