Photo: J Hazard · CC BY-SA 3.0Armstrong has more crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 77.3 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on the record of crime the police covering Armstrong reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 76.8 in 2023 to 68.1 by 2025. Annual rates stand at 11.0 violent incidents and 28.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Gimli detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Armstrong
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Armstrong records 5.6 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 77.3 in Armstrong. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Armstrong’s two halves part ways: 72.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 80 for the rest (typical 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.
Armstrong: C+ for safety, and why
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 22 km from Armstrong, 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.
Armstrong’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Armstrong 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). Fraud 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.
Armstrong, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 87 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 68.1 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Armstrong | 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 Armstrong, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Armstrong, 13,700 residents: around 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.
Add about 390 property crimes and 170 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Armstrong
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong | 2,062 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Teulon (19 km) | 1,289 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| Winnipeg Beach (25 km) | 1,480 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Gimli (26 km) | 6,914 | 126.6 | 134.2 | D |
| Dunnottar (29 km) | 1,012 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
The places around Armstrong all score higher on the index. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Armstrong has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 19–29 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Armstrong
Is Armstrong safe?
Armstrong scores 77.3 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 11 violent incidents and 28.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Armstrong?
Most often it is mischief: 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.5 and theft under $5,000 at 5.7.
Is crime going up in Armstrong?
It went down 11% between 2023 and 2025, from 76.8 to 68.1.
How much of Armstrong’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 31% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 58% of violent and 21% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Armstrong 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).