Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Brokenhead sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 58.5 to 65.6. Even so, its letter overall is B (#17 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 7.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 27.8, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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: one figure for all of the Oakbank Area detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Brokenhead
Lower than most of Manitoba
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 58.8 in Brokenhead. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Brokenhead scores 39.1 for violence and 67.2 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Brokenhead stands 18th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Brokenhead 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.
Brokenhead: B for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, as Brokenhead has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 23 km away.
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.
Crime in Brokenhead, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Brokenhead 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.
Brokenhead, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 65.6; the lightest was 2024, at 52.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Brokenhead | 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 Brokenhead, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Brokenhead comes 18th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Ferris Ontario | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Richelieu Quebec | 6,048 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 16 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 17 | Lanoraie Quebec | 5,694 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| 18 | Brokenhead Manitoba | 5,931 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 19 | Stettler County No. 6 Alberta | 5,966 | 61.7 | 36.4 | B− |
| 20 | Saint Marys New Brunswick | 5,701 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 21 | Electoral Area A, Cariboo British Columbia | 6,172 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Duncan British Columbia | 5,745 | 384.5 | 331.1 | 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 Brokenhead in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Brokenhead, 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 Brokenhead
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brokenhead | 5,931 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| Beausejour | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| St. Clements | 12,029 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| Selkirk | 11,570 | 158 | 197.4 | D |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Brokenhead. A neighbour policed by the same service carries the same figure, so it isn’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Brokenhead
Is Brokenhead safe?
Brokenhead scores 58.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 7.7 violent incidents and 27.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Brokenhead?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 7, other Criminal Code offences at 6 and theft under $5,000 at 6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Brokenhead?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 12%, to 65.6 from 58.5.
How much of Brokenhead’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 29%: 63% for violent crime and 22% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Brokenhead 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).