Photo: Masterhatch · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Estevan No. 5 than in 64% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 76.7 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Police clear 41% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. Measured on crime the police covering Estevan No. 5 reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+. Recorded violent incidents ran at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 28.2, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Estevan detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Estevan No. 5
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Estevan No. 5’s two halves part ways: 48.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 88.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lighter than Saskatchewan’s middle
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Estevan No. 5, 76.7. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
From 63.2 in 2023 to 77.2 in 2025: that is Estevan No. 5’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
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 Estevan No. 5’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Estevan No. 5 itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 2 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.
In Estevan No. 5, up 22% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 89.6; 2023 was the lightest, at 63.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Estevan No. 5 | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 89.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 63.2 | 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 Estevan No. 5, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Estevan No. 5’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Estevan No. 5 runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5) and mischief (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 5.6 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.3 | 2.5 | 28% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 1.4 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 28.7 | 5.4 | 18% |
| Mischief | 38.7 | 7.2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 36 | 6.7 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Drug violations | 5.7 | 1.1 | 70% |
| Impaired driving | 16.3 | 3.1 | 41% |
| 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 57 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Estevan No. 5 (5,320 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 150 a year and other violations 88 (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 Estevan No. 5
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estevan No. 5 | 1,293 | 76.7 | 48.9 | C+ |
| Estevan (5 km) | 11,391 | 103.1 | 136.2 | C− |
| Oxbow (56 km) | 1,290 | 57.6 | 45 | B |
| Carlyle (70 km) | 1,571 | 126.1 | 169.7 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Estevan No. 5. Oxbow, 56.2 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 57.6 to 76.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 5–70 km from Estevan No. 5.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. 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 Estevan No. 5
Is Estevan No. 5 safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Estevan No. 5 comes to 76.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.6 violent incidents and 28.2 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Estevan No. 5?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (9.4 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 7.2, and break and enter, at 5.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Estevan No. 5?
It has: 63.2 in 2023 became 77.2 by 2025, a rise of 22%.
How much of Estevan No. 5’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 41% of crime (58% of violent crime, 40% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Estevan No. 5 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).