Photo: Andrew Scheer · CC0Moosomin is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 68.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Moosomin grades B− for safety overall (#11 of 104 in Saskatchewan): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 14.1 violent incidents and 29.5 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.9 and 31.2.
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 Moosomin detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Moosomin
Heavier than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Moosomin stood at 58.2, by 2025 at 77.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Saskatchewan
Moosomin’s index of 68.2 compares with 118.6 for the typical town in Saskatchewan. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Moosomin records 8.9 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Moosomin places 25th from the lowest index. 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.
What’s behind Moosomin’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.
Its place: #11 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #1,304 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Moosomin, up 32% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (77.1); the lightest was 2023 (58.2). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Moosomin | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 69.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 58.2 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Moosomin, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Moosomin’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Moosomin runs highest on mischief (8.9 per 1,000 against 4.9), break and enter (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.8) and fraud (6.1 per 1,000 against 4.9). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 4.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11.3 | 1.8 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 45 | 7 | 29% |
| Mischief | 57.7 | 8.9 | 23% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 36.7 | 5.7 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 0.8 | 34% |
| Drug violations | 6 | 0.9 | 12% |
| Impaired driving | 33.3 | 5.2 | 49% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Moosomin stands 25th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Garafraxa Ontario | 2,976 | 28.7 | 22 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon Quebec | 2,916 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| 23 | Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu Quebec | 2,984 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| 24 | Botwood Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,884 | 66.2 | 61.2 | B− |
| 25 | Moosomin Saskatchewan | 2,906 | 68.2 | 62.3 | B− |
| 26 | Forestville Quebec | 2,835 | 72.5 | 127.6 | C+ |
| 27 | Bedford Quebec | 2,845 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 28 | Division No. 1, Subdivision E Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,978 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lesser Slave River No. 124 Alberta | 2,980 | 170.9 | 107.9 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Moosomin in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
6,500 residents, about 91 violent incidents a year: the police area Moosomin 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.
Add about 190 property crimes and 110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Moosomin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moosomin | 2,906 | 68.2 | 62.3 | B− |
| Prairie View (54 km) | 2,149 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Virden (61 km) | 3,322 | 103.6 | 169 | C− |
| Redvers (63 km) | 1,068 | 126.1 | 169.7 | D |
| Esterhazy (64 km) | 2,513 | 66.4 | 84.4 | B− |
| Kipling (69 km) | 1,091 | 163.5 | 272.2 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 5 places with their own figures have a lower index than Moosomin. The nearest of them, Esterhazy (64.4 km away), scores 66.4 against 68.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 54–69 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Moosomin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Moosomin’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Moosomin
Is Moosomin safe?
Moosomin measures 68.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 14.1 violent incidents and 29.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Moosomin?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 8.9 and theft under $5,000 at 7.
Is crime going up in Moosomin?
Up 32%: 58.2 in 2023, 77.1 in 2025.
How much of Moosomin’s crime do police solve?
About 35% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 52% of violent and 29% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Moosomin 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).