Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Heritage than in 80% of Canadian towns
On the record of crime the police covering Heritage reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety: #18 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Split in two, the index gives 137.3 for violence and 92.1 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). Police counts work out at 13.2 violent incidents and 42.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1.
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 and crime rate numbers here cover the Regina service area.
What stands out about safety in Heritage
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in Heritage stood at 117.8, by 2025 at 91.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 to 59.2. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Heritage
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Heritage itself compares.
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: #18 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #1,949 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Regina’s crime, type by type
These are Regina’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Regina runs highest on robbery (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.4), break and enter (5.3 per 1,000 against 2.2) and mischief (8 per 1,000 against 3.8). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.7 | 0.03 | 100% |
| Sexual violations against children | 67 | 0.3 | 56% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 90.7 | 0.4 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 49 | 0.2 | 50% |
| Robbery | 304.7 | 1.2 | 46% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 11.7 | 0.05 | 74% |
| Other violent violations | 63 | 0.2 | 54% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,342 | 5.3 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 152.7 | 0.6 | 92% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 535.3 | 2.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 69.7 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 5,136.3 | 20.1 | 17% |
| Mischief | 2,047 | 8 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 299.7 | 1.2 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 4,814 | 18.8 | 98% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 174 | 0.7 | 75% |
| Drug violations | 93.7 | 0.4 | 90% |
| Impaired driving | 370.7 | 1.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 225.7 | 0.9 | 28% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Heritage’s index dropped 22%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (117.8); the low point came in 2025, at 91.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Heritage | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.4 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 103.9 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 117.8 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Heritage, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Heritage
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage | 5,172 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Downtown | 4,282 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Dewdney Place | 3,021 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Al Ritchie | 8,087 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Cathedral Village | 7,311 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Boothill | 2,613 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
| Lakeview | 7,770 | 104.4 | 137.3 | C− |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Heritage carries the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Heritage
Is Heritage safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Heritage comes to 104.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 13.2 violent incidents and 42.6 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Heritage?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 20.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (20.1) and assault (8.6).
Is crime going up in Heritage?
The reverse: 117.8 in 2023 came down to 91.4 by 2025, 22% lower.
How much of Heritage’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 43% of crime (62% of violent crime, 32% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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).