Medicine Hat's 2026 partial-year records total 12,395, surpassing 2025's 3,474. The Other parent category accounts for 10,908 records, led by Calls for service (5,398) and Bylaw & Provincial (4,525). Mischief (487), Fraud (348), Assault (327), Break and enter (204), and Auto theft (64) round out the top categories. Since 2026 is partial-year data, treat the year-over-year gap with caution. The archive spans two years, 2025 and 2026.
Medicine Hat's 2026 incident count stands at 12,395 reported records in the city's open-data archive, making it the largest raw year in the two-year dataset ahead of 2025's 3,474 records. Those 2026 records account for 78.1% of the archive's 15,869 total incidents across all years in the dataset.
This is a partial-year figure: the 2026 catalogue was generated in mid-August 2026, reporting is still in progress, and further records may be added. Raw 2025 counts are shown only for context, and no year-over-year percentage is calculated because the two years cover different reporting windows. These are incident counts from open data, not population-adjusted rates.
The 2026 total of 12,395 is larger than 2025's 3,474 records, but the 2025 figure is the only other year in the city archive. Because 2026 is a partial-year file, a direct comparison to 2025 would mix different reporting windows, so no year-over-year percentage is calculated. The city-year series shows 2025 at 3,474 and 2026 at 12,395. The 2026 count represents 78.1% of the city-wide archive total of 15,869 records. Year totals reflect reported records, not population-adjusted rates.
Other is the defining feature of Medicine Hat's 2026 partial-year file: 10,908 of the year's records fall in that category, and within it Calls for service (5,398) and Bylaw & Provincial (4,525) are the leading subcategories. Traffic & MVC (585), Harassment (215) and Threats (130) follow. Harassment and Threats under Other are person offences demoted from coarse Assault/person parents, not residual non-crime. Mischief (487), Fraud (348) and Assault (327) round out the top six, giving 2026 the highest raw count in the dataset despite its partial-year window.
Medicine Hat's 2026 open-data file contains 12,395 reported incidents. That is the highest raw count in the two-year city archive, which also holds 3,474 records for 2025. The 2026 count represents 78.1% of the city-wide archive total of 15,869 records, but the reporting year is still in progress and the figure may grow.
The raw count for 2026, 12,395, is higher than the only earlier year in the archive, 2025, which recorded 3,474. However, 2026 is a partial-year file, so a straightforward year-over-year comparison would not be meaningful. No percentage change is available because the two reporting windows are different lengths.
Other is the dominant category at 10,908 records, with Calls for service (5,398) and Bylaw & Provincial (4,525) leading its subcategories. Mischief follows at 487, Fraud at 348, Assault at 327, and Break and enter at 204. Harassment and Threats, at 215 and 130, are person offences under Other, not unexplained residual records.
The upstream open-data source for Medicine Hat, Alberta (AB) supplied the 12,395 reported incidents recorded for 2026 and the city-wide archive total of 15,869 records. The archive was generated on 2026-08-15 and reflects incident records as published by that source, not population-based rates.
Medicine Hat's figures are drawn from the upstream open-data source for Alberta (AB), covering the 2026 total of 12,395 and the 15,869-record city archive.