Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Rosetown records less crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 46.6 and its non-violent half to 58.3, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8. The grade is B, built on crime the police covering Rosetown reported from 2023 to 2025: #7 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Police counts work out at 9.8 violent incidents and 25.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Rosetown detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rosetown
Under the Saskatchewan norm
Within Saskatchewan, the median town comes to 118.6 on the index, against 54.6 in Rosetown. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Rosetown’s two halves part ways: 46.6 for violence (typical 85.7) and 58.3 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Rosetown stands 15th, the lowest first. 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 sits behind Rosetown’s B
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: #7 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #703 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.
Rosetown’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Rosetown runs highest on mischief (6.8 per 1,000 against 4.9), break and enter (3.8 per 1,000 against 2.8) and fraud (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.9). 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 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30 | 3.8 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.7 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.7 | 1.7 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.7 | 1 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 46.7 | 5.9 | 17% |
| Mischief | 54 | 6.8 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 40.7 | 5.1 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 13.3 | 1.7 | 85% |
| 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 to 10,000 people.
Rosetown is 15th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Outlook Saskatchewan | 2,629 | 42 | 39.6 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | East River, Part 1 Prince Edward Island | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| 13 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce Quebec | 2,575 | 47.7 | 81.3 | B+ |
| 14 | Hébertville Quebec | 2,588 | 49.6 | 81.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Rosetown Saskatchewan | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| 16 | Saint-Léonard-d'Aston Quebec | 2,662 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Damien Quebec | 2,569 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 18 | Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel Quebec | 2,599 | 58.7 | 84.9 | B |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Unity Saskatchewan | 2,543 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | 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 Rosetown in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 78 violent incidents a year across the police area of 8,030 residents that includes Rosetown, 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.
Property crime adds about 210 a year and other violations 90 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Rosetown’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 63.5, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 49.6. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rosetown | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 63.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 50.8 | 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 Rosetown, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Rosetown
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosetown | 2,600 | 54.6 | 46.6 | B |
| Biggar (55 km) | 2,337 | 81.6 | 52.5 | C |
| Outlook (65 km) | 2,629 | 42 | 39.6 | A− |
| Eston (70 km) | 1,005 | 95.9 | 83.7 | C− |
Nearby, 1 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Rosetown. Outlook, 65.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 42 to 54.6.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 55–70 km from Rosetown.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Rosetown together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
Questions about safety in Rosetown
Is Rosetown safe?
Rosetown’s Crime Severity Index is 54.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 9.8 violent incidents and 25.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Rosetown?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (8 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 6.8, and theft under $5,000, at 5.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Rosetown?
Hardly at all, from 50.8 in 2023 to 49.6 in 2025.
How much of Rosetown’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 33% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 52% of violent and 27% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rosetown 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).