Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Waldheim records more crime than 78% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 115.6 and other offences for 93.6, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Typical years here bring 20.7 violent incidents plus 40.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Counting crime the police covering Waldheim reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 99.4 then 101.9.
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 Rosthern detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Waldheim
Mischief: high for a town its size
Waldheim 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
Set among Saskatchewan’s towns, whose median is 118.6, Waldheim scores 99.3. 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.
What’s behind Waldheim’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 22 km from Waldheim, not to the town.
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.
Which crimes make up Waldheim’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Waldheim 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.
Around 260 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Waldheim (12,800 residents), 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.
Property crime adds about 510 a year and other violations 400 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Waldheim, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 101.9, and 2024 lowest at 96.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Waldheim | 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 Waldheim, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Waldheim
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waldheim | 1,447 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
| Laird No. 404 | 1,488 | 88.5 | 83.2 | C |
| Rosthern No. 403 | 2,791 | 99.3 | 115.6 | C− |
The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Waldheim
Is Waldheim safe?
The short answer is an index of 99.3 for Waldheim (2023–2025), built from 20.7 violent incidents and 40.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Waldheim?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 24.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 17.8 and assault at 10.9.
Is crime going up in Waldheim?
Not much: the index went from 99.4 in 2023 to 101.9 in 2025.
How much of Waldheim’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 38% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 60% of violent crime and 27% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Waldheim together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).