Photo: CP842c · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Maidstone than in 87% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 105.4 and 134.2. On crime the police covering Maidstone reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Year on year, 13.2 violent incidents and 49.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Maidstone detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Maidstone
Mischief: high for a town its size
Maidstone records 14.5 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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Maidstone’s two halves part ways: 105.4 for violence (typical 86.4) and 134.2 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Maidstone moved from 101.8 to 117.6, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Near the Saskatchewan middle
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Maidstone, 125.2. 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.
Inside Maidstone’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.
Maidstone’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Maidstone runs highest on mischief (14.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (6 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (5 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits 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 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 38.7 | 5 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 31.7 | 4.1 | 27% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 46 | 6 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 27.7 | 3.6 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 75.3 | 9.8 | 12% |
| Mischief | 111.3 | 14.5 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 1.1 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 124.7 | 16.3 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8 | 1 | 41% |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 2.3 | 69% |
| Impaired driving | 34.7 | 4.5 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
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.
In Maidstone, up 16% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 156.2, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 101.8. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Maidstone | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 156.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101.8 | 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 Maidstone, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
7,760 residents, about 100 violent incidents a year: the police area Maidstone 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.
And about 380 property crimes, plus 270 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Maidstone
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maidstone | 1,222 | 125.2 | 105.4 | D |
| Wilton No. 472 (42 km) | 1,583 | 125.2 | 105.4 | D |
| Frenchman Butte No. 501 (46 km) | 1,382 | 197.7 | 233.3 | D |
| Lloydminster (Part) (51 km) | 13,137 | 211.6 | 177.2 | D |
| Lloydminster (Part) (53 km) | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | D |
| Meota No. 468 (55 km) | 1,217 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Maidstone. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 42–55 km from Maidstone.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Maidstone is one part.
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Maidstone
Is Maidstone safe?
Statistics Canada puts Maidstone at 125.2 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 13.2 and property crimes at 49.3 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Maidstone?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 22.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 14.5 and theft under $5,000 at 9.8.
Is crime going up in Maidstone?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 16%, to 117.6 from 101.8.
How much of Maidstone’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 33% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 39% of violent crime and 31% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Maidstone and everywhere else it polices.
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).