Photo: CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange from England · CC BY 2.0Kamsack records more crime per resident than 94% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 320.7 and 199.9. Violence and property crime split as 48.6 violent incidents and 95.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Kamsack reported put it at D for safety.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Kamsack detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Kamsack
Mischief: high for a town its size
Kamsack records 57 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 ↓
Higher than most of Saskatchewan
Within Saskatchewan, the median town comes to 118.6 on the index, against 233 in Kamsack. Towns its size ↓
A high clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 48% for Kamsack (75% violent, 32% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
More severe than in 2023
Kamsack’s index went from 213.2 in 2023 to 250.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. 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.
Inside Kamsack’s D for safety
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 Kamsack, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Kamsack runs highest on mischief (57 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (5.9 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (28.7 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8.7 | 1.3 | 69% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 10 | 1.5 | 73% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 43.7 | 6.7 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.9 | 40% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 39.7 | 6.1 | 31% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 105.7 | 16.3 | 37% |
| Mischief | 371.3 | 57 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 1.4 | 68% |
| Administration of justice violations | 184 | 28.3 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.3 | 2.4 | 59% |
| Drug violations | 38.7 | 5.9 | 16% |
| Impaired driving | 56.7 | 8.7 | 42% |
| 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.
Kamsack’s index rose 18% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 250.9; the lightest was 2023, at 213.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kamsack | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 250.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 234.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 213.2 | 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 Kamsack, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Kamsack is part of, 6,560 residents, recorded about 320 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 620 a year and other violations 530 (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 Kamsack
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamsack | 1,849 | 233 | 320.7 | D |
| Canora (39 km) | 2,179 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
| Roblin (52 km) | 3,184 | 252.3 | 341.3 | D |
| Yorkton (56 km) | 17,543 | 175.2 | 185.2 | D |
| Swan Valley West (58 km) | 2,702 | 169.9 | 227.9 | D |
| Orkney No. 244 (67 km) | 1,957 | 57.7 | 50.6 | B |
4 of the 5 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Kamsack. Closest is Canora, 38.8 km away, at 81.3 to 233 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Kamsack with figures are 39–67 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Kamsack together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Kamsack
Is Kamsack safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 233 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Kamsack stands, with 48.6 violent and 95.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Kamsack?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (63.8 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 57, and assault, at 28.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Kamsack?
It went up 18% between 2023 and 2025, from 213.2 to 250.9.
How much of Kamsack’s crime do police solve?
48%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 75% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Kamsack 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).