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The six cities with the highest property crime rates per resident were Cold Lake, Red Deer, Wetaskawin, Grande Prairie, Leduc and Edmonton.
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Calgary was #7 on the list.
This is how many property crimes took place in each city in May.
Cold Lake 107
Red Deer 463
Wetaskiwin 58
Grande Prairie 271
Leduc 114
Edmonton 3294
Calgary* 3868
Fort Saskatchewan 84
Spruce Grove 106
Brooks 37
Sherwood Park 218
St. Albert 144
Airdrie 114
Chestermere 26
High River 21
Beaumont 18
When adjusted by the size of the population the results show Cold Lake had the highest crime per resident for a city in the province while Beaumont had the lowest.
These places had the highest crime rate when adjusted for the population.
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The places with the highest crime rate were Valleyview, St. Paul, Bonnyville, Rimbey, Peace River, and Barrhead.
A complete list of 160+ cities, towns and rural locations in Alberta and where they ranked is at the end of this post.
Once again, the crime rates in places around Edmonton are much higher than the Calgary region.
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The places most affected by property crime in this region were Leduc County, Enoch Cree Nation, Stony Plain, Calmar, Leduc and Edmonton.
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Notice the location of the pink line in the Calgary Region chart and compare it to the Edmonton chart for May. Every chart is on a scale of 0 to 10 for easy comparison.
It is interesting to see how the city of Calgary has the highest crime rate while in Edmonton there are other smaller locations that have an even higher crime rate than the city itself.
The town of Rimbey had a large increase in crime over the month of May.
This has continued on into June where an excavator was stolen and used to steal an ATM one night as well as three other business report being broken into on the same night.
The six highest crime locations in the Central Alberta region are below.
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After Rimbey, Barrhead was second highest, followed by Drayton Valley, Onoway, Westlock and Alberta Beach.
Some Eastern Alberta towns and cities maintain the highest crime rates per capita in the province.
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St Paul and Bonnville were at the top of the chart with 10 crimes or more per 1,000 residents.
This was followed by Athabasca, Vermillion, Vegreville and Cold Lake.
A crime map shows these high crime rates do not occur in the rural areas nearly as much.
It seems criminals targeting Bonnyville or Cold Lake don’t have or use vehicles very much as the MD of Bonnyville surrounds both municipalities, yet only had a crime rate of 1.71 per 1,000 residents and not 9.99 or 6.33.
A complete list of many other places in Eastern Alberta and where they ranked versus the province is at the end of this post.
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Pincher Creek had the highest crime rate in this area of Alberta for the month of May.
This was followed by Fort Macleod, Sikiska 146, Cardston, Flagstaff County and Kneehill County.
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Valleyview had the highest crime rate in the region followed by Peace River, High Prairie, Saddle Hills County, Grande Prairie, and Berwyn.
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Leduc County and the Enoch Cree Nation were first and second for rural crime in May.
This was followed by Lac La Biche County, St. Paul County, Smoky Lake County, and the MD of Opportunity.
Below are 162 cities, towns and counties ranked from the highest crime to the lowest.
The list shows the ranking in May, then the name of the Municipality, then the crimes per 1,000 residents, and the last number is the total reported crimes.
A 2 beside the name shows a community with less than 1,000 people. These smaller village, communities and reserves were not used when building the top six crime locations for each reason.
1 Valleyview 11.95 20
2 St Paul 10.75 63
3 Bonnyville 9.99 64
4 Caroline2 8.62 4
5 Rimbey 8.57 22
6 Peace River 7.55 50
7 Barrhead 7.41 32
8 Athabasca 7.25 20
9 Vermilion 6.86 28
10 Vegreville 6.83 39
11 Cold Lake 6.83 107
12 Leduc County 6.75 93
13 Viking2 6.46 6
14 Rycroft2 6.37 4
15 Drayton Valley 6.08 44
16 High Prairie 5.46 14
17 Enoch Cree Nation 5.33 9
18 Lac La Biche County 5.21 40
19 Smoky Lake2 5.19 5
20 Onoway 5.18 5
21 Westlock 5.15 37
22 St. Paul County 4.97 30
23 Alberta Beach 4.91 5
24 Rocky Mountain House 4.73 32
25 Hinton 4.69 46
26 Pincher Creek 4.67 17
27 Smoky Lake County 4.63 19
28 Red Deer 4.59 463
29 Wetaskiwin 4.58 58
30 Whitecourt 4.53 44
31 Ponoka 4.50 33
32 Edson 4.42 37
33 MD of Opportunity 4.40 14
34 Stony Plain 4.34 78
35 Saddle Hills County 4.33 10
36 Thorhild County 4.30 14
37 Grande Prairie 4.23 271
38 Fort Macleod 4.18 13
39 Calmar 4.12 9
40 Brazeau County 4.04 29
41 Wainwright 3.99 25
42 Athabasca County 3.81 30
43 Siksika 146 3.74 13
44 Berwyn 3.72 2
45 Wood Buffalo 3.63 260
46 Cardston 3.63 13
47 Lac La Biche 3.46 8
48 Leduc 3.34 114
49 Sundre 3.30 9
50 Edmonton 3.26 3294
51 Redwater 3.24 7
52 Flagstaff County 3.21 12
53 Devon 3.19 21
54 High Level 3.17 10
55 Slave Lake 3.16 21
56 Calgary* 3.12 3868
57 Lac Ste. Anne County 3.12 34
58 Bighorn No. 8 3.11 5
59 Fort Saskatchewan 3.10 84
60 Fox Creek 3.05 5
61 Stoney Nakoda First Nation 3.03 12
62 Kneehill County 3.00 15
63 Sylvan Lake 2.88 46
64 Ermineskin 138 2.85 7
65 Spruce Grove 2.82 106
66 MD of Greenview 2.73 25
67 Olds 2.72 25
68 Fairview 2.67 8
69 Beaverlodge 2.64 6
70 Red Deer County 2.56 50
71 O'Chiese 2.53 2
72 Brooks 2.48 37
73 Big Lakes County 2.47 14
74 Lamont 2.43 4
75 Lamont County 2.40 9
76 Claresholm 2.38 9
77 Samson Cree Nation 2.37 8
78 Gibbons 2.31 7
79 Parkland County 2.30 74
80 Nanton 2.29 5
81 Minburn County No. 27 2.27 7
82 Hay Lake 2092 2.27 2
83 Strathcona County 2.22 218
84 Sherwood Park 2.20 218
85 Unipouheos 1212 2.19 2
86 Sturgeon County 2.14 43
87 St. Albert 2.11 144
88 County of Westaskawin 2.06 23
89 Improvement District No. 9 1.99 2
90 Eckville 1.97 2
91 Crossfield 1.94 7
92 Lethbridge County 1.93 20
93 Rocky View County 1.93 76
94 Yellowhead County 1.91 21
95 Morinville 1.83 19
96 Vermilion River County 1.81 15
97 Stettler 1.80 10
98 County of Grande Prairie 1.79 40
99 Jasper 1.74 8
100 MD of Bonnyville 1.71 22
101 Beaver County 1.69 10
102 Bassano 1.66 2
103 Mackenzie County 1.61 18
104 Clearwater County 1.60 19
105 Strathmore 1.60 22
106 Pincher Creek No. 9 1.57 5
107 Coalhurst 1.57 5
108 Canmore 1.57 22
109 Airdrie 1.54 114
110 Northern Sunrise County 1.54 3
111 Mayerthorpe 1.52 2
112 Saddle Lake 125 1.51 6
113 Bruderheim 1.50 2
114 Cypress County 1.48 12
115 Woodlands County 1.47 7
116 Louis Bull 138B 1.47 2
117 Camrose County 1.41 12
118 Westlock County 1.39 10
119 Alix 1.36 1
120 Okotoks 1.28 39
121 Banff 1.27 10
122 County of Barrhead 1.27 8
123 Chestermere 1.25 26
124 Crowsnest Pass 1.25 7
125 Blackfalds 1.24 13
126 Sexsmith 1.24 3
127 Alexis 1332 1.20 1
128 Willow Creek No. 26 1.17 7
129 Newell County 1.16 9
130 Mountain View County 1.15 15
131 Wheatland County 1.14 10
132 Wainwright No. 61 1.12 5
133 Ponoka County 1.12 11
134 Black Diamond 1.10 3
135 Delburne 1.09 1
136 Foothills County 1.05 24
137 Coaldale 1.03 9
138 Bow Island 1.01 2
139 Three Hills 0.99 3
140 Lacombe County 0.97 13
141 Bentley 0.93 1
142 High River 0.91 21
143 Drumheller 0.88 7
144 Innisfail 0.88 7
145 Beaumont 0.86 18
146 Cochrane 0.84 27
147 Bowden 0.78 1
148 Stettler County 0.75 4
149 Legal 0.70 1
150 Wembley 0.66 1
151 Penhold 0.57 2
152 Redcliff 0.54 3
153 Clear Hills 0.32 1
154 County of Forty Mile 0.28 1
155 Taber 0.24 2
156 Didsbury 0.23 3
157 Bashaw 0.00 0
158 Bon Accord 0.00 0
159 Castor 0.00 0
160 Sunchild 2022 0.00 0
|161 Special Area No. 4 0.00 0
162 Improvement District No. 24 Wood Buffalo2 0.00 0
163 Beaver Lake 1312 0.00 0
Congratulations to all those who live and work in those communities that experienced zero property crimes in May!
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The locations that use Lightcatch the most often to prevent crime have some of the lowest crime rates. The examples below from the Grande Prairie region are a good example of this.
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These results where the County of Grande Prairie maintains a much lower crime rate than other rural, town and city locations nearby have been fairly consistent over the last 18+ months.
Most places across the province do have a lower crime rate in the rural locations but the difference is not as big, especially for a rural location where the nearby crime rates are so high and there is such a large population and amount of industry like the County of Grande Prairie has.
It would take an extreme skeptic to not consider this example a complete success in its impact.
Where These Charts and Data Came From
There are over 300 Municipalities in Alberta counting Villages and Reserves. We gather all the RCMP data, Calgary Police Service Data and Edmonton Police Service data that is publicly available. The goal is to report on the major areas and trends, not every single village.
Of the 300 RCMP reported areas this report covers 163 of the larger ones. The crimes are then compared to the population to get the crimes per 1,000 residents.
This method helps make the easiest comparison between locations. This method is also what the FBI uses to look at crime across America.
Calgary + Edmonton Crime Data
Calgary* data is only available as recent as of February 2023
Calgary Property Crime Data
Commercial Robbery 21
Property Crimes 4218
Fraud (402)
Total 3364
Edmonton Property Crime Data
Edmonton Property Crime Data
Notes About The Data
2- These are communities with a population lower than 1,000. They were not included in the crime ranking charts.
Independent police services like the Lethbridge Police Service, the Lacombe Police Service, and The Medicine Hat Police service do not seem to report the property crime rates publicly and are not included in these rankings.
If there is a way to access data for these and any other police services please put a comment below..
Hythe property crime was included in the County of Grande Prairie's count. Grande Cache property crime was included in the MD of Greenview's count. Grande Centre was included in the Cold Lake data. Wabumum is included in Parkland County's county.
Due to the difficulties in collecting this data some locations in Alberta may not be included.