Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Manning records more crime than 85% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 132.1 for violence and 115.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The local count comes to 15.7 violent incidents and 45.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Manning reported put it at C− for safety.
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. Measured across the Manning detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Manning
Mischief: high for a town its size
Manning records 11.8 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 ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 19% of crime in Manning ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 38% of violent crime and 15% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the Alberta middle
The typical Alberta town scores 110; Manning, 119.8. 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 sits behind Manning’s C−
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.
Which crimes make up Manning’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Manning runs highest on break and enter (8.6 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (11.8 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (4.6 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 | 0.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 23.3 | 8.6 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 1.7 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.3 | 4.6 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 3.6 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23.3 | 8.7 | 14% |
| Mischief | 31.7 | 11.8 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 7 | 2.6 | 57% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 1.9 | 0% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.3 | 3.5 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
About 42 violent incidents a year across the police area of 2,720 residents that includes Manning, 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.
And about 120 property crimes, plus 45 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Manning’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 145.2 in 2025, having been lowest in 2024 at 95.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Manning | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 145.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 95.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 118.2 | 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 Manning, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Manning
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manning | 1,153 | 119.8 | 132.1 | C− |
| Northern Lights County (17 km) | 4,115 | 119.8 | 132.1 | C− |
| Peace River (80 km) | 7,220 | 254.7 | 229 | D |
| Peace No. 135 (81 km) | 1,581 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Grimshaw (82 km) | 2,799 | 96 | 62 | C− |
| Northern Sunrise County (88 km) | 1,848 | 91.3 | 73 | C |
Manning sits above 3 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 80.9 km away, Peace No. 135 comes to 96, against 119.8. Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Manning with figures are 17–88 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Manning is one part.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Small numbers. The police behind these figures serve about 2,720 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Manning
Is Manning safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Manning scores 119.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 15.7 violent and 45.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Manning?
Mischief is the most common, at 11.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (9.7) and theft under $5,000 (8.7).
Is crime going up in Manning?
It has: 118.2 in 2023 became 145.2 by 2025, a rise of 23%. The police area is small or partly reported, so treat the change with care.
How much of Manning’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 19%: 38% for violent crime and 15% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Manning and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).