Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainIndian Head is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
A Crime Severity Index of 66.7, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Indian Head’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 12.4 violent incidents and 33.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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. Measured across the Indian Head detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Indian Head
Mischief: high for a town its size
Indian Head records 15.2 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 ↓
Lower than most of Saskatchewan
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Indian Head, 66.7. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 56.6 in 2023 to 68.4 in 2025: that is Indian Head’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 44% for Indian Head (62% violent, 36% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B− for Indian Head, 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.
Crime in Indian Head, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Indian Head runs highest on mischief (15.2 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3 per 1,000 against 2.5). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24 | 3 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16.3 | 2 | 25% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 63 | 7.8 | 15% |
| Mischief | 122.3 | 15.2 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 65.7 | 8.2 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.3 | 59% |
| Drug violations | 6.3 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Impaired driving | 25.3 | 3.2 | 68% |
| 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Indian Head’s index climbed 21%
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 75.1, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 56.6. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Indian Head | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 75.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 56.6 | 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 Indian Head, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
8,250 residents, about 100 violent incidents a year: the police area Indian Head 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 270 a year and other violations 150 (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 Indian Head
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Head | 2,201 | 66.7 | 68.2 | B− |
| North Qu'Appelle No. 187 (22 km) | 1,044 | 166.6 | 212 | D |
| Fort Qu'Appelle (27 km) | 2,247 | 166.6 | 212 | D |
| South Qu'Appelle No. 157 (30 km) | 1,256 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Indian Head. South Qu'Appelle No. 157, 29.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 52.8 to 66.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 22–30 km from Indian Head.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Indian Head together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Indian Head
Is Indian Head safe?
Statistics Canada puts Indian Head at 66.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 12.4 and property crimes at 33.3 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Indian Head?
Mischief is the most common, at 15.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (12.8) and theft under $5,000 (7.8).
Is crime going up in Indian Head?
Up 21%: 56.6 in 2023, 68.4 in 2025.
How much of Indian Head’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 44% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 62% of violent crime and 36% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Indian Head 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).