Photo: Stephen Glauser from Calgary, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Brighton has more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 153.9 and its non-violent half to 105.5, where the norm is 75.2 and 54.2. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Brighton reported put it at C− for safety: #48 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Typical years here bring 15.2 violent incidents plus 48.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 10.8 plus 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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 and crime rate published for the Saskatoon service area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Brighton
Down since 2023
Brighton’s index went from 131 in 2023 to 108.1 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved 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.
What’s behind Brighton’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Brighton on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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: #48 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #2,227 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.
Saskatoon’s crime, type by type
These are Saskatoon’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Saskatoon runs highest on robbery (1.7 per 1,000 against 0.4), break and enter (6.3 per 1,000 against 2.2) and mischief (8.8 per 1,000 against 3.8). Drug offences sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 11.3 | 0.04 | 80% |
| Sexual violations against children | 87 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 155 | 0.5 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 51.7 | 0.2 | 50% |
| Robbery | 525.7 | 1.7 | 34% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 31.3 | 0.1 | 60% |
| Other violent violations | 64 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,916.7 | 6.3 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 192.3 | 0.6 | 87% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 945 | 3.1 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 191.7 | 0.6 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 6,810.3 | 22.1 | 11% |
| Mischief | 2,705.3 | 8.8 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 671.3 | 2.2 | 92% |
| Administration of justice violations | 6,402 | 20.8 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 253.7 | 0.8 | 73% |
| Drug violations | 214.7 | 0.7 | 90% |
| Impaired driving | 245.3 | 0.8 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 31.3 | 0.1 | 42% |
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.
In Brighton, down 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 131, against a low of 108.1 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brighton | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108.1 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 116.9 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 131 | 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 Brighton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Brighton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 7,238 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| University Heights Urban Centre | 9,247 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Willowgrove | 9,787 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Lakewood | 14,880 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Greystone Heights | 6,402 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Hillcrest Management Area | 3,004 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| University | 5,888 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
Its police also cover 6 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Brighton is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Brighton
Is Brighton safe?
Its police recorded 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Brighton a Crime Severity Index of 118.6. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Brighton?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 25.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 22.1 and assault at 9.1.
Is crime going up in Brighton?
Down 17%: 131 in 2023, 108.1 in 2025.
How much of Brighton’s crime do police solve?
About 38% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 45% of violent and 34% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers 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).