Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Wilkie records more crime than 78% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 91.9 and its non-violent half to 102.2, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Police clear 40% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. Counting crime the police covering Wilkie reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety. The local count comes to 16.4 violent incidents and 40.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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, crime rate and incident counts for the Unity detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Wilkie
Mischief: high for a town its size
Wilkie records 12 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 ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Wilkie scores 91.9 for violence and 102.2 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Saskatchewan’s towns
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Wilkie, 98.7. 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 Wilkie’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 31 km from Wilkie, 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.
Crime in Wilkie, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Wilkie runs highest on mischief (12 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (6.1 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (4.2 per 1,000 against 2.4). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.7 | 0.8 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 48.7 | 6.1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12 | 1.5 | 64% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 34 | 4.2 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 62.7 | 7.8 | 12% |
| Mischief | 96.7 | 12 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 79.7 | 9.9 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.3 | 31% |
| Drug violations | 8.7 | 1.1 | 43% |
| Impaired driving | 27.3 | 3.4 | 61% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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.
The detachment closest to Wilkie, 8,070 residents, recorded about 130 violent incidents a year, 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.
Add about 320 property crimes and 190 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
In Wilkie, down 7% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 103.8 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 92.6 in 2025. 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 | Wilkie | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 103.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 99.7 | 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 Wilkie, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Wilkie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkie | 1,261 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| Unity (31 km) | 2,543 | 98.7 | 91.9 | C− |
| Battle River No. 438 (37 km) | 1,080 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
| Battleford (45 km) | 4,657 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
| North Battleford (50 km) | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | D− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Wilkie. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 31–50 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Wilkie.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Wilkie
Is Wilkie safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Wilkie scores 98.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 16.4 violent and 40 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Wilkie?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 12 and theft under $5,000 at 7.8.
Is crime going up in Wilkie?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 7%, to 92.6 from 99.7.
How much of Wilkie’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 40% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 70% of violent crime and 29% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Wilkie and everywhere else it polices.
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).