Photo: Felspar13 · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Alexander than in 96% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 493 for violence and 223.9 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). For solved cases, the weighted rate is 52%, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Even so, that puts it at D− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Alexander reported from 2023 to 2025: #175 of 182 in Manitoba. Police counts work out at 69.9 violent incidents and 93.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.9 and 31.2.
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 Powerview detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Alexander
Visitors count, residents divide
Seasonal homes make up about 58% of Alexander’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Alexander records 50.6 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Alexander moved from 260.8 to 357.7, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Higher than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Alexander scores 298.9. 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’s behind Alexander’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 5 km from Alexander, not to the town.
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: #175 of 182 in Manitoba and #2,535 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Alexander, up 37% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (357.7) and 2023 least (260.8). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Alexander | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 357.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 278.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 260.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Alexander, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Alexander’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Alexander runs highest on mischief (50.6 per 1,000 against 4.9), drug offences (5.9 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (43.5 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 16.3 | 1.9 | 86% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 18.7 | 2.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 7.3 | 0.9 | 68% |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 8 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 6 | 0.7 | 55% |
| Breaking and entering | 100 | 11.8 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 1.3 | 68% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54.7 | 6.5 | 27% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.3 | 1 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 130.3 | 15.4 | 19% |
| Mischief | 428.3 | 50.6 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 22.3 | 2.6 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 216.7 | 25.6 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 21.3 | 2.5 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 49.7 | 5.9 | 14% |
| Impaired driving | 97.3 | 11.5 | 37% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Alexander places 38th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-Etchemin Quebec | 4,089 | 30.8 | 48.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | North Norfolk Manitoba | 4,084 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Woodlands Manitoba | 4,057 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Crossfield Alberta | 4,075 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| 36 | Smoky Lake County Alberta | 4,043 | 255 | 152.4 | D |
| 37 | Fort Nelson British Columbia | 4,144 | 263.7 | 376.9 | D |
| 38 | Alexander Manitoba | 4,032 | 298.9 | 493 | D− |
| 39 | Watford Ontario | 3,955 | 333.9 | 378.3 | D− |
| 40 | Swan River Manitoba | 4,048 | 435.7 | 403.3 | 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 Alexander in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 590 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Alexander (8,560 residents), 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 790 property crimes, plus 680 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Alexander
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander | 4,032 | 298.9 | 493 | D− |
| Powerview-Pine Falls (5 km) | 1,311 | 298.9 | 493 | D− |
| Lac du Bonnet (33 km) | 1,136 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Lac du Bonnet (33 km) | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Pinawa (48 km) | 1,653 | 39.8 | 55.1 | A |
Alexander has the highest index of the places around it. Just 32.5 km away, Lac du Bonnet comes to 76.7, against 298.9. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Alexander has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 5–48 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. 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.”
Questions about safety in Alexander
Is Alexander safe?
Statistics Canada puts Alexander at 298.9 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 69.9 and property crimes at 93.3 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Alexander?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (59.3 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 50.6, and assault, at 43.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Alexander?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 37%, to 357.7 from 260.8.
How much of Alexander’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 52% of crime (79% of violent crime, 29% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Alexander 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).