Photo: Daniel Paquet from Regina, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Foam Lake than in 87% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 151.7 and its non-violent half to 119.4, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. The Safety Grade comes out at D, drawn from crime the police covering Foam Lake reported through 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 31.1 violent incidents and 45.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Steady over the three years, the index read 124.9 in 2023 and 129.3 in 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Wadena detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Foam Lake
Mischief: high for a town its size
Foam Lake records 16.9 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 ↓
Much like Saskatchewan’s towns
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Foam Lake, 127.9. 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.
Foam Lake: D for safety, and why
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 39 km from Foam Lake, 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.
What police record in Foam Lake, by type
Against the typical town its size, Foam Lake runs highest on mischief (16.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (8.4 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (16.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 52.7 | 8.4 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.8 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 3.1 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 57 | 9.1 | 17% |
| Mischief | 106.3 | 16.9 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 1.3 | 45% |
| Administration of justice violations | 100.7 | 16 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.3 | 2.9 | 44% |
| Drug violations | 9.7 | 1.5 | 13% |
| Impaired driving | 21.7 | 3.4 | 59% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
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 closest to Foam Lake, 6,300 residents, recorded about 200 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 290 a year and other violations 200 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Foam Lake, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 129.4, with 2023 the lightest at 124.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Foam Lake | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 129.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 124.9 | 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 Foam Lake, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Foam Lake
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foam Lake | 1,154 | 127.9 | 151.7 | D |
| Wadena (39 km) | 1,278 | 127.9 | 151.7 | D |
| Wynyard (47 km) | 1,827 | 71.6 | 51.2 | C+ |
| Preeceville (69 km) | 1,046 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Preeceville No. 334 (72 km) | 1,043 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Canora (75 km) | 2,179 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
The places around Foam Lake all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Wynyard (47 km away), scores 71.6 against 127.9. Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 39–75 km from Foam Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Foam Lake
Is Foam Lake safe?
The short answer is an index of 127.9 for Foam Lake (2023–2025), built from 31.1 violent incidents and 45.6 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Foam Lake?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (25 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 16.9, and assault, at 16.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Foam Lake?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 124.9 to 129.3.
How much of Foam Lake’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (52% of violent crime, 26% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Foam Lake 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).