Photo: Sylgja · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Arborg than in 65% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Arborg reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C+ for safety. Add to that, the index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 77.3 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. In 2023 the index stood at 76.8; it fell to 68.1 in 2025. Violence and property crime split as 11.0 violent incidents and 28.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Gimli detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Arborg
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Arborg scores 77.3. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Arborg’s index splits into violent crime, 72.1 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 80 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.
Arborg: C+ for safety, and why
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 34 km from Arborg, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Arborg, by type
Against the typical town its size, Arborg runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5), motor vehicle theft (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and mischief (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 75.7 | 5.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.7 | 1.4 | 53% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.3 | 4.4 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 77 | 5.7 | 9% |
| Mischief | 90.3 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41 | 3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.3 | 0.9 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 1.1 | 34% |
| Impaired driving | 43 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5 | 0.4 | 14% |
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.
Arborg, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (87) and 2025 the trough (68.1). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Arborg | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 87 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 76.8 | 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 Arborg, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Arborg, 13,700 residents, recorded about 150 violent incidents a year, 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.
Property crime adds about 390 a year and other violations 170 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Arborg
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arborg | 1,455 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Bifrost-Riverton (10 km) | 3,518 | 307.1 | 431.5 | D− |
| Gimli (34 km) | 6,914 | 126.6 | 134.2 | D |
| Fisher (34 km) | 1,800 | 307.1 | 431.5 | D− |
| Armstrong (41 km) | 2,062 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Winnipeg Beach (48 km) | 1,480 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Arborg. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Arborg with figures are 10–48 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Arborg
Is Arborg safe?
Statistics Canada puts Arborg at 77.3 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 11 and property crimes at 28.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Arborg?
Mischief is the most common, at 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (6.5) and theft under $5,000 (5.7).
Is crime going up in Arborg?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 11%, to 68.1 from 76.8.
How much of Arborg’s crime do police solve?
About 31% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 58% of violent and 21% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Arborg together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).