Photo: daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Central Business District than in 85% of Canadian towns
A Safety Grade of C− follows from crime the police covering Central Business District reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #48 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Its police logs show 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ the numbers are 10.8 and 25.1. Of the two halves, violence comes to 153.9 and other offences to 105.5, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2.
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-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the Saskatoon service area.
What stands out about safety in Central Business District
Easing since 2023
Central Business District’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.
Inside Central Business District’s C− for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Central Business District alone.
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.
What Saskatoon’s police record, 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).
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.
Central Business District’s index fell 17% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (131); the low point came in 2025, at 108.1. 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 | Central Business District | 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 Central Business District, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Central Business District
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Business District | 4,987 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| City Park | 3,827 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Grosvenor Park | 6,240 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Caswell Hill | 2,573 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Haultain | 6,126 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Westmount | 2,872 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Buena Vista | 5,777 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
6 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- One figure for the city. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Central Business District is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Central Business District
Is Central Business District safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Central Business District’s Crime Severity Index stands at 118.6 for 2023–2025. Its police record 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Central Business District?
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 Central Business District?
Down 17%: 131 in 2023, 108.1 in 2025.
How much of Central Business District’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?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).