Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Crime in Altona sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 59.1, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. What’s more, its Safety Grade, B− (#22 of 182 in Manitoba), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Recorded violent incidents ran at 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 23.1, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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.
What stands out about safety in Altona
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Altona records 3.4 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Altona moved from 81.1 to 46.5, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Altona scores 59.1. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Altona’s index splits into violent crime, 44 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 65.7 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Altona’s grade
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: #22 of 182 in Manitoba and #902 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Altona’s index dropped 43%
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 81.1; the lightest was 2025, at 46.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Altona | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 49.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 81.1 | 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 Altona, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Altona, by type
Against the typical town its size, Altona runs highest on drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7) and mischief (6.4 per 1,000 against 4.9). Theft under $5,000 and break and enter sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49.3 | 8.5 | 29% |
| Mischief | 37.3 | 6.4 | 39% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 26.3 | 4.5 | 90% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Drug violations | 19.7 | 3.4 | 12% |
| Impaired driving | 7.3 | 1.3 | 27% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
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.
By its index, Altona stands 18th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Bruce Peninsula Ontario | 5,018 | 29.3 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Warwick Quebec | 4,939 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 16 | Hastings Highlands Ontario | 4,957 | 55.2 | 59.6 | B |
| 17 | Saint-Donat Quebec | 5,087 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 18 | Altona Manitoba | 4,989 | 59.1 | 44 | B− |
| 19 | Electoral Area C, North Okanagan British Columbia | 5,029 | 61.3 | 74.1 | B− |
| 20 | Electoral Area F, North Okanagan British Columbia | 4,969 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| 21 | Starlight Village New Brunswick | 5,108 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | 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 Altona in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 56 violent incidents a year on Altona’s police records (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 130 property crimes, plus 82 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 Altona
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altona | 4,989 | 59.1 | 44 | B− |
| Rhineland (12 km) | 6,819 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Montcalm (22 km) | 1,420 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Stanley (29 km) | 9,929 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| Winkler (30 km) | 16,156 | 45.7 | 56.3 | A− |
Of 4 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Altona. Just 28.8 km away, Stanley comes to 27.2, against 59.1.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 12–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Altona.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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 Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Altona
Is Altona safe?
Its police recorded 9.7 violent incidents and 23.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Altona a Crime Severity Index of 59.1. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Altona?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (8.5 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 8.5, and mischief, at 6.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Altona?
No: the index fell 43%, from 81.1 in 2023 to 46.5 in 2025.
How much of Altona’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 34% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 75% of violent and 23% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Altona alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).