Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Boissevain is close to typical for Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 50.5 and 59.2. Boissevain’s overall Safety Grade is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, each year brought 8.7 violent incidents and 20.7 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (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.
What stands out about safety in Boissevain
Lighter than Manitoba’s middle
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 56.4 in Boissevain. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Boissevain’s index splits into violent crime, 50.5 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 59.2 against 62.8. By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Boissevain’s police clear 24%, 28% of violent crime and 24% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Boissevain’s B
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 Boissevain, by type
Against the typical town its size, Boissevain runs highest on mischief (6.2 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.5). 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 | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5.3 | 3.2 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 2.7 | 1.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 7 | 4.2 | 39% |
| Mischief | 10.3 | 6.2 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 5.7 | 3.4 | 47% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.7 | 1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 2.7 | 1.6 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
About 15 violent incidents a year reached Boissevain’s police, 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 35 property crimes, plus 18 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Boissevain’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 65.2, and its lowest 2025, at 41.9. 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 | Boissevain | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 62 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65.2 | 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 Boissevain, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Boissevain
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boissevain | 2,369 | 56.4 | 50.5 | B |
| Killarney (29 km) | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| Deloraine-Winchester (32 km) | 1,553 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Prairie Lakes (32 km) | 1,679 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Souris (46 km) | 2,737 | 54.2 | 56.4 | B |
| Oakland-Wawanesa (49 km) | 1,869 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 4 come in under Boissevain. Just 31.8 km away, Deloraine-Winchester comes to 42.8, against 56.4.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 29–49 km from Boissevain.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Small numbers. The police behind these figures serve about 1,669 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 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. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Boissevain
Is Boissevain safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 56.4 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Boissevain stands, with 8.7 violent and 20.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Boissevain?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 7.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (6.2) and fraud (4.6).
Is crime going up in Boissevain?
It went down 36% between 2023 and 2025, from 65.2 to 41.9. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Boissevain’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 28% of violent crime and 24% of everything else, 24% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Boissevain 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).