Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Rosthern than in 78% of Canadian towns
Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 99.4 to 101.9. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 115.6 and 93.6. Counting crime the police covering Rosthern reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety. On top of that, the yearly rates were 20.7 violent incidents and 40.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Shared with the rest of the Rosthern detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Rosthern
Mischief: high for a town its size
Rosthern records 17.8 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 ↓
Close to Saskatchewan’s typical town
Within Saskatchewan, the median town comes to 118.6 on the index, against 99.3 in Rosthern. 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.
The C− for Rosthern, and how it is built
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.
Crime in Rosthern, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Rosthern runs highest on mischief (17.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.9 per 1,000 against 2.4) and assault (10.9 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 | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.7 | 0.6 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.7 | 0.5 | 79% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9.3 | 0.7 | 32% |
| Breaking and entering | 42.7 | 3.4 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 32.7 | 2.6 | 37% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 61.7 | 4.9 | 20% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.6 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 77 | 6.1 | 16% |
| Mischief | 224.3 | 17.8 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 13.3 | 1.1 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 154 | 12.3 | 83% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 23.3 | 1.9 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 16.7 | 1.3 | 16% |
| Impaired driving | 53 | 4.2 | 40% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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 260 violent incidents a year across the police area of 12,800 residents that includes Rosthern, 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 510 property crimes and 400 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Rosthern, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 101.9 in 2025, having been lowest in 2024 at 96.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rosthern | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 101.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 96.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 99.4 | 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 Rosthern, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Rosthern
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosthern | 1,926 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| Waldheim (22 km) | 1,447 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| Rosthern No. 403 (22 km) | 2,791 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| Laird No. 404 (33 km) | 1,488 | 88.5 | 83.2 | C |
| Osler (35 km) | 1,473 | 88.5 | 83.2 | C |
| Wakaw (40 km) | 1,052 | 117.5 | 147.4 | C− |
2 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Rosthern. Laird No. 404, 33 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 88.5 to 99.3. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 22–40 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Rosthern.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “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: Rosthern together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Rosthern
Is Rosthern safe?
With 20.7 violent incidents and 40.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Rosthern comes to 99.3 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Rosthern?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 24.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (17.8) and assault (10.9).
Is crime going up in Rosthern?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 99.4 to 101.9.
How much of Rosthern’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 38% of crime (60% of violent crime, 27% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rosthern 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).