Photo: Adam sk · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Oxbow records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 57.6, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Oxbow at B: close to the middle of Canadian towns. For every 1,000 residents, 10.4 violent incidents and 28.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Carnduff detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Oxbow
Under the Saskatchewan norm
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Oxbow scores 57.6. Towns its size ↓
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Oxbow stood at 48, by 2025 at 62.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Oxbow’s index splits into violent crime, 45 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 63.2 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 sits behind Oxbow’s B
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 28 km off, which covers its own area rather than Oxbow.
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.
Oxbow’s index rose 31% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (62.7); the lightest was 2023 (48). 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 | Oxbow | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48 | 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 Oxbow, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Oxbow, by type
Against the typical town its size, Oxbow runs highest on mischief (7 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 | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.7 | 3.8 | 28% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 1.2 | 45% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12 | 2.2 | 39% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.9 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 38.7 | 7.2 | 27% |
| Mischief | 38 | 7 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 29.3 | 5.4 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 2 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 11 | 2 | 66% |
| 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.
Around 56 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Oxbow (5,410 residents), 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 150 property crimes, plus 64 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 Oxbow
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxbow | 1,290 | 57.6 | 45 | B |
| Carnduff (28 km) | 1,139 | 57.6 | 45 | B |
| Carlyle (45 km) | 1,571 | 126.1 | 169.7 | D |
| Redvers (51 km) | 1,068 | 126.1 | 169.7 | D |
| Estevan No. 5 (56 km) | 1,293 | 76.7 | 48.9 | C+ |
| Estevan (60 km) | 11,391 | 103.1 | 136.2 | C− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Oxbow. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 28–60 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Oxbow.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- What the index measures. 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 Oxbow
Is Oxbow safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Oxbow comes to 57.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.4 violent incidents and 28.1 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Oxbow?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 7.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (7.2) and mischief (7).
Is crime going up in Oxbow?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 31%, to 62.7 from 48.
How much of Oxbow’s crime do police solve?
38%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 56% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Oxbow 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).