Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Yorkton than in 93% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 185.2 for violence and 172.7 for everything else (normally 89.4 and 56). Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 183 to 172.5. Police counts work out at 36.1 violent incidents and 99.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.0 and 30.5. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 42% (the typical Canadian town its size: 33%).
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.
What stands out about safety in Yorkton
Mischief: high for a town its size
Yorkton records 51.8 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Yorkton comes 39th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Over the Saskatchewan norm
The typical Saskatchewan town scores 118.6; Yorkton, 175.2. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Violent crime scores 185.2 on Yorkton’s index against 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 172.7 against 56. By type ↓
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 Yorkton’s D
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: #93 of 104 in Saskatchewan and #2,490 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up Yorkton’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Yorkton runs highest on mischief (51.8 per 1,000 against 3.7), drug offences (2.9 per 1,000 against 0.8) and break and enter (6.5 per 1,000 against 2.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.7 | 0.4 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.7 | 1.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 8.3 | 0.5 | 84% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.3 | 0.5 | 48% |
| Breaking and entering | 112.3 | 6.5 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 22.7 | 1.3 | 47% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 55 | 3.2 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.7 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 409.3 | 23.8 | 30% |
| Mischief | 892.3 | 51.8 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 25.7 | 1.5 | 63% |
| Administration of justice violations | 429 | 24.9 | 88% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 43 | 2.5 | 58% |
| Drug violations | 50 | 2.9 | 37% |
| Impaired driving | 103.3 | 6 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.06 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
By its index, Yorkton stands 39th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oak Bay British Columbia | 18,626 | 26.7 | 23.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Swift Current Saskatchewan | 18,154 | 108.2 | 100.8 | C− |
| 36 | Summerside Prince Edward Island | 19,006 | 118.7 | 108.2 | C− |
| 37 | Kenora Ontario | 15,892 | 127.1 | 186.8 | D |
| 38 | Leduc County Alberta | 16,400 | 162.1 | 88.2 | D |
| 39 | Yorkton Saskatchewan | 17,543 | 175.2 | 185.2 | D |
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Yorkton in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Yorkton’s police: about 620 violent incidents a year over 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 1,720 property crimes and 1,110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Yorkton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (183); 2024 was the lightest, at 170.2. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Yorkton | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 170.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 183 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Yorkton, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Yorkton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkton | 17,543 | 175.2 | 185.2 | D |
| Orkney No. 244 (13 km) | 1,957 | 57.7 | 50.6 | B |
| Melville (39 km) | 4,547 | 104.2 | 145.1 | C− |
| Canora (47 km) | 2,179 | 81.3 | 110.5 | C |
Yorkton has the highest index of the places around it. Just 12.8 km away, Orkney No. 244 comes to 57.7, against 175.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 13–47 km from Yorkton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in Yorkton
Is Yorkton safe?
Police-reported crime in Yorkton scores 175.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 36.1 violent incidents and 99.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Yorkton?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 53.3, mischief at 51.8 and theft under $5,000 at 23.8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Yorkton?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 6%, to 172.5 from 183.
How much of Yorkton’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 42% of crime (60% of violent crime, 34% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Yorkton’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).