Photo: Awmcphee · CC BY-SA 3.0Maple Creek sees more crime per resident than 71% of Canadian towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 14.5 violent incidents and 38.9 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering Maple Creek reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 85.2 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 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. Measured across the Maple Creek detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Maple Creek
Mischief: high for a town its size
Maple Creek records 16.6 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 ↓
Above-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Maple Creek’s police clear 56%, 78% of violent crime and 48% of the rest. Questions ↓
Below Saskatchewan’s typical town
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Maple Creek scores 85.2. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Maple Creek’s index splits into violent crime, 79.6 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 88.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Maple Creek’s grade
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 Maple Creek, by type
Against the typical town its size, Maple Creek runs highest on mischief (16.6 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (8.5 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 | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.7 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23.7 | 5.2 | 37% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 1.7 | 61% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 9 | 2 | 44% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 32.7 | 7.2 | 31% |
| Mischief | 75.7 | 16.6 | 59% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.9 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 60 | 13.2 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5.3 | 1.2 | 94% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Impaired driving | 17.3 | 3.8 | 75% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
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 66 violent incidents a year across the police area of 4,590 residents that includes Maple Creek, 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 180 property crimes, plus 120 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
The index in Maple Creek, each year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 98.7; the lightest was 2025, at 68.8. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Maple Creek | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 88 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 98.7 | 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 Maple Creek, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Maple Creek
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Creek | 2,354 | 85.2 | 79.6 | C |
| Maple Creek No. 111 (16 km) | 1,179 | 85.2 | 79.6 | C |
| Shaunavon (82 km) | 1,939 | 48.5 | 57.8 | B+ |
| Medicine Hat (86 km) | 68,714 | 87.3 | 82.6 | C |
| Cypress County (87 km) | 7,855 | 66.6 | 46.6 | B− |
| Redcliff (95 km) | 5,916 | 66.7 | 63.8 | B− |
Of 4 places nearby with their own figures, 3 come in under Maple Creek. Just 81.9 km away, Shaunavon comes to 48.5, against 85.2. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Maple Creek has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 16–95 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Maple Creek’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 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. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
- Read with care. About 4,593 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Maple Creek
Is Maple Creek safe?
Statistics Canada puts Maple Creek at 85.2 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 14.5 and property crimes at 38.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Maple Creek?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 19.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (16.6) and assault (8.5).
Is crime going up in Maple Creek?
Down 30%: 98.7 in 2023, 68.8 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Maple Creek’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 56% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 78% of violent and 48% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Maple Creek 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).