Photo: Julia Adamson SriMesh talk · CC BY-SA 2.5Lawson Heights sees more crime per resident than 85% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Lawson Heights reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety: #48 of 104 in Saskatchewan. Annual rates stand at 15.2 violent incidents and 48.4 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 153.9 and 105.5.
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. Data for crime severity and crime rate covers the Saskatoon service area.
What stands out about safety in Lawson Heights
Lighter than in 2023
From 131 in 2023 to 108.1 in 2025: that is Lawson Heights’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.
What sits behind Lawson Heights’s C−
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Lawson Heights itself compares.
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). 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.
Lawson Heights’s index fell 17% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 131 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 108.1. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lawson Heights | 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 Lawson Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Lawson Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson Heights | 8,158 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Lawson Heights Urban Centre | 3,622 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Silverwood Heights | 8,153 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| North Park | 5,000 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| University | 5,888 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| City Park | 3,827 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
| Mayfair | 2,927 | 118.6 | 153.9 | C− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Lawson Heights carries the city-wide figures.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Lawson Heights
Is Lawson Heights safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Lawson Heights’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 Lawson Heights?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 25.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (22.1) and assault (9.1).
Is crime going up in Lawson Heights?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 108.1 from 131.
How much of Lawson Heights’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 38% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 45% of violent and 34% of non-violent crime.
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).