During 2026 (YTD, through Jul), Medicine Hat logged 11,637 total open-data incidents. The leading category was Other with 10,240 incidents (88% of total). Within this category, Calls for service led with 6,939 incidents (43.9% of total), followed by Bylaw & Provincial offences with 5,554 incidents (35.2% of total). Specific categories included 455 Mischief incidents, 329 Fraud cases, and 308 Assaults. Violent incidents totaled 334 across the municipality.
Year × type breakdown · Population 68,714 (2025) · 2026 is year-to-date, through Jul
Category cells are the top types only; area totals include every type. Tap a category header to sort.
This page covers reported incidents in Medicine Hat, Alberta, drawn from the official police / municipal open-data portal in Alberta. The headline numbers describe the 2026 calendar year through July — the latest complete month in the archive — not the interactive map's rolling window. In that period, the open dataset records 11,637 incidents. Because the year is still in progress, these totals are year-to-date, not a full annual count.
The value of this page is that it turns the raw open-data feed into a readable summary: the top incident categories, the subcategories hidden inside the broad Other bucket, and the multi-year archive that provides context. The interactive map on this page uses a separate 60-day window (3,926 incidents) for recent activity, which is intentionally different from the yearly YTD figures used in the analysis below.
Year-over-year change is not available for 2026 (YTD, through Jul). The archive's year series contains a full 2025 calendar year (3,474 incidents) and the current 2026 year through July (11,637 incidents), but comparing a full year to a partial year would be misleading. The archive also contains 12,321 on-disk 2026 records once dates after July are included, so the YTD headline should not be read as a complete annual total. No year-over-year percentage is presented for this period.
The top-category breakdown for 2026 (YTD, through Jul) is led by Other, with 10,240 incidents and 88% of the total. Other is a broad grouping: within it, calls for service are the leading subcategory at 6,939 records, equal to 50% of Other and 43.9% of all incidents. Bylaw & Provincial accounts for 5,554 of those Other records (40.1% of Other), and Traffic & MVC adds 867. The Other bucket also includes harassment (269) and threats (166) — open-data person offences that are not physical assault. Among specific named categories, Mischief follows at 455 (3.9%), Fraud at 329 (2.8%), Assault at 308 (2.6%), Break and enter at 192 (1.6%), and Auto theft at 60 (0.5%).
What stands out in Medicine Hat's 2026 YTD data is how much of the record sits inside Other — 10,240 of 11,637 incidents (88%). Calls for service alone account for 6,939 of those, and Bylaw & Provincial another 5,554. That makes service and bylaw activity the dominant shapes of the open-data picture, while the most specific categories — Mischief (455), Fraud (329), Assault (308) — are smaller. The Other bucket also contains 269 harassment and 166 threats records, person offences that are distinct from physical assault. Violent-category incidents total 334. Year-over-year change is not available because 2026 is year-to-date.
Between October 18, 2025, and August 12, 2026, the dataset records a total of 11,637 incidents for the 2026 (YTD, through Jul) period. Of these recorded incidents, 334 were classified within violent crime categories such as assault, sexual assault, robbery, and homicide.
The leading category in the open dataset is Other, accounting for 10,240 incidents or 88% of total records. Within this category, Calls for service make up the largest share with 6,939 incidents, followed by Bylaw & Provincial with 5,554 incidents. Threats account for 166 incidents and Harassment accounts for 269 incidents, which are person offences demoted from coarse assault categories.
A year-over-year percentage change is not available for this period because the 2026 headline total covers an incomplete year through July. The dataset records 3,474 total incidents for 2025 and 11,637 incidents for 2026 (YTD, through Jul). Comparisons between a partial calendar year and a complete prior year are excluded to avoid misleading comparisons.
Neighbourhood breakdowns are not available for this source because the municipal open-data portal provides incident locations without distinct neighbourhood or district boundary classifications. All 11,637 incidents recorded in the 2026 (YTD, through Jul) dataset are published at the city level.
The data is sourced from an official municipal open-data portal in Alberta. The feed includes published police incident locations and event categories, covering 11,637 incidents for the 2026 year-to-date period through July. This open dataset is maintained by local authorities and updated periodically.
The headline dataset covers the 2026 (YTD, through Jul) period, with records spanning up to August 12, 2026. While the year-to-date total stands at 11,637 incidents, the interactive map displays a rolling 60-day window featuring 3,926 incidents for recent spatial exploration.
Data is sourced from the official municipal open-data portal in AB, capturing public incident records for Medicine Hat.
Drill into categories, years, and areas on the interactive map. Counts below use the same open-data archive as the city overview.