Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Buena Vista records more crime than 85% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Buena Vista reported over 2023 to 2025: #48 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Of the two halves, violence comes to 153.9 and other offences to 105.5, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Out of every 1,000 residents, 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 10.8 and 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. Measured across the Saskatoon service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Buena Vista
Less severe than in 2023
From 131 in 2023 to 108.1 in 2025: that is Buena Vista’s index, against 64.3 and 59.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. 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 C− for Buena Vista, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Buena Vista can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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.
Which crimes make up Saskatoon’s figures
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).
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.
Year by year in Buena Vista: down 17%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (131); 2025 was the lightest, at 108.1. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Buena Vista | 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 Buena Vista, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Buena Vista
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista | 5,777 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Haultain | 6,126 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Avalon | 9,488 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Central Business District | 4,987 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Grosvenor Park | 6,240 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Pleasant Hill | 6,088 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Adelaide/Churchill | 2,652 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 6 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
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. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Buena Vista is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Buena Vista
Is Buena Vista safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Buena Vista comes to 118.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 property crimes. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Buena Vista?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (25.6 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 22.1, and assault, at 9.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Buena Vista?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 108.1 from 131.
How much of Buena Vista’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 45% of violent crime and 34% of everything else, 38% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).