Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Beausejour is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 58.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Even so, by 2025 the index had climbed to 65.6, up from 58.5 in 2023. Taking everything together, Beausejour scores B (#17 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Its police logs show 7.7 violent incidents and 27.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Oakbank Area detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Beausejour
Lower than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Beausejour scores 58.8. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Violent crime scores 39.1 on Beausejour’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 67.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Beausejour is 15th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Beausejour records 4.4 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. 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 Beausejour’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 24 km off, which covers its own area rather than Beausejour.
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: #17 of 182 in Manitoba and #888 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.
Which crimes make up Beausejour’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Beausejour runs highest on break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.8), mischief (7 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.6). 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 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 109.3 | 4.4 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19.3 | 0.8 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 89.3 | 3.7 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 28 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 146.3 | 6 | 12% |
| Mischief | 172.3 | 7 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.7 | 2.8 | 78% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.3 | 0.6 | 44% |
| Drug violations | 11 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Impaired driving | 104 | 4.3 | 68% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Beausejour, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (65.6); 2024 was the low point, at 52.4. 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 | Beausejour | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 52.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 58.5 | 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 Beausejour, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Beausejour places 15th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 8 | Ste. Anne Manitoba | 3,587 | 40.3 | 16.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Pemberton British Columbia | 3,620 | 53 | 61.7 | B+ |
| 13 | Piedmont Quebec | 3,667 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| 14 | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez Quebec | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 15 | Beausejour Manitoba | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 16 | Richmond County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 3,444 | 65.2 | 90.1 | B− |
| 17 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,672 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| 18 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,570 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| 19 | WestLake-Gladstone Manitoba | 3,604 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Lac du Bonnet Manitoba | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Carman Manitoba | 3,547 | 81.4 | 113 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 Alberta | 3,592 | 495.1 | 602.4 | 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 Beausejour in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Beausejour, 21,100 residents, recorded about 190 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 680 a year and other violations 280 (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 Beausejour
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beausejour | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| Brokenhead (10 km) | 5,931 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| St. Clements (26 km) | 12,029 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| Oakbank (26 km) | 17,494 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| Selkirk (28 km) | 11,570 | 158 | 197.4 | D |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Beausejour. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Beausejour has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 10–28 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Beausejour
Is Beausejour safe?
Its police recorded 7.7 violent incidents and 27.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Beausejour a Crime Severity Index of 58.8. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Beausejour?
Police record mischief most, 7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (6) and theft under $5,000 (6).
Is crime going up in Beausejour?
Yes: the index rose 12%, from 58.5 in 2023 to 65.6 in 2025.
How much of Beausejour’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 29% of crime (63% of violent crime, 22% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Beausejour 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).