Photo: MBBrdn · CC0Brandon sees more crime per resident than 81% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 110.3 in 2023 to 99.7 by 2025. By contrast, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Brandon reported put it at C− for safety: #44 of 182 in Manitoba. Year on year, 17.5 violent incidents and 49.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 121.5 for violence and 102.4 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2).
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.
What stands out about safety in Brandon
Mischief: high for a town its size
Brandon records 14.1 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Brandon comes 36th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Near the Manitoba middle
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Brandon, 107.2. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 47% of Brandon’s crime, weighted by seriousness (57% of violent crime, 42% of the rest), against 38% across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Brandon’s C− for safety
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: #44 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,996 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Brandon’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Brandon runs highest on mischief (14.1 per 1,000 against 3.8), robbery (0.9 per 1,000 against 0.4) and assault (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.9).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 29 | 0.5 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 32.7 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 10.7 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Robbery | 54.7 | 0.9 | 55% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 15.3 | 0.3 | 50% |
| Breaking and entering | 247.7 | 4.3 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 36 | 0.6 | 90% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 92.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.3 | 0.2 | 14% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,234 | 21.4 | 22% |
| Mischief | 812 | 14.1 | 11% |
| Weapons violations | 138.7 | 2.4 | 84% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,131.7 | 19.6 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 43 | 0.7 | 84% |
| Drug violations | 66 | 1.1 | 94% |
| Impaired driving | 123.7 | 2.1 | 89% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.02 | — |
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 50,000 people or more.
Brandon is 36th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lakeshore Ontario | 45,954 | 26.8 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 33 | Medicine Hat Alberta | 68,714 | 87.3 | 82.6 | C |
| 34 | North Bay Ontario | 62,062 | 87.5 | 124.1 | C |
| 35 | Cornwall Ontario | 54,346 | 104.5 | 126.4 | C− |
| 36 | Brandon Manitoba | 59,444 | 107.2 | 121.5 | C− |
| 37 | Mission British Columbia | 47,280 | 114.1 | 134.5 | C− |
| 38 | Rocky View County Alberta | 50,260 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
| 39 | Vernon British Columbia | 49,527 | 145.1 | 141.2 | D |
| 40 | Grande Prairie Alberta | 71,160 | 149.3 | 157.2 | 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 Brandon in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Brandon, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 111.5, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 99.7. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Brandon | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99.7 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 111.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 110.3 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Brandon, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Police in Brandon recorded about 1,010 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 2,860 a year and other violations 1,870 (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 Brandon
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon | 59,444 | 107.2 | 121.5 | C− |
| Oakland-Wawanesa (25 km) | 1,869 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Riverdale (29 km) | 2,205 | 95.2 | 103.8 | C− |
| Souris (32 km) | 2,737 | 54.2 | 56.4 | B |
| Minto-Odanah (37 km) | 1,168 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Oakview (39 km) | 1,670 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
Nearby, 3 of 5 places with their own figures have a lower index than Brandon. Just 25.4 km away, Oakland-Wawanesa comes to 42.8, against 107.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Brandon has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 25–39 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Brandon
Is Brandon safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Brandon scores 107.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 17.5 violent and 49.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Brandon?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 27.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 21.4 and mischief at 14.1.
Is crime going up in Brandon?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 10%, to 99.7 from 110.3.
How much of Brandon’s crime do police solve?
47%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 57% and non-violent crime at 42%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Brandon and nowhere else.
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).