Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime in Lumsden sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Year on year, 9.9 violent incidents and 30.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Across all the graded crimes, Lumsden lands on B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 63.6 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Lumsden detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Lumsden
Mischief: high for a town its size
Lumsden records 11 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 ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Lumsden moved from 71.5 to 49.9, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Violent crime scores 43.3 on Lumsden’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 72.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lighter than Saskatchewan’s middle
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Lumsden scores 63.6. 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.
The grade: B− for Lumsden
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Lumsden’s index dropped 30%
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (71.5); 2025 was the lightest, at 49.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lumsden | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 69.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 71.5 | 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 Lumsden, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Lumsden’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Lumsden runs highest on mischief (11 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 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 19.3 | 2.7 | 43% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 0.9 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.7 | 1.8 | 37% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.7 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51.7 | 7.1 | 17% |
| Mischief | 80 | 11 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 2.2 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8.7 | 1.2 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Impaired driving | 42.3 | 5.8 | 72% |
| 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.
About 72 violent incidents a year across the police area of 7,380 residents that includes Lumsden, 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 220 a year and other violations 160 (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 Lumsden
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumsden | 2,059 | 63.6 | 43.3 | B− |
| Lumsden No. 189 | 2,150 | 63.6 | 43.3 | B− |
| Longlaketon No. 219 | 1,192 | 80.1 | 122.6 | C |
| Regina Beach | 1,322 | 63.6 | 43.3 | B− |
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A wider policing area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Lumsden’s are shared with its surroundings.
Questions about safety in Lumsden
Is Lumsden safe?
Its police recorded 9.9 violent incidents and 30.3 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Lumsden a Crime Severity Index of 63.6. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Lumsden?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 11, other Criminal Code offences at 10.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 8.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Lumsden?
The reverse: 71.5 in 2023 came down to 49.9 by 2025, 30% lower.
How much of Lumsden’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 37% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 54% of violent and 33% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Lumsden 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).