Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime in Cartier sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 67, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Cartier at B− (#28 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Annual rates stand at 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Measured across the Headingley detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Cartier
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Cartier moved from 81.4 to 43.9, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Cartier scores 67. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Cartier records 5.6 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 ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Cartier is 17th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B− for Cartier, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Cartier itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 22 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: #28 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,144 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.
In Cartier, down 46% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 81.4, against a low of 43.9 in 2025. 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 | Cartier | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 75.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Cartier, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Cartier’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Cartier runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and motor vehicle theft (3.9 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 | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 20 | 1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 5.6 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 78 | 3.9 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.7 | 1.2 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 98.7 | 5 | 9% |
| Mischief | 101 | 5 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 2.8 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Impaired driving | 53.7 | 2.7 | 67% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
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.
Cartier comes 17th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo British Columbia | 3,733 | 58.9 | 58.4 | B− |
| 15 | Saint-André-Avellin Quebec | 3,862 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| 16 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,672 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| 17 | Cartier Manitoba | 3,739 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| 18 | Electoral Area C, Fraser-Fort George British Columbia | 3,811 | 67.3 | 98.3 | B− |
| 19 | Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George British Columbia | 3,764 | 67.3 | 98.3 | B− |
| 20 | East Hawkesbury Ontario | 3,787 | 70.8 | 123.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Killarney Manitoba | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cowichan Bay British Columbia | 3,713 | 131.7 | 149.7 | 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 Cartier in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Cartier, 20,500 residents, recorded about 160 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 490 property crimes and 190 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 Cartier
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartier | 3,739 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| St. François Xavier (17 km) | 1,607 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| Rosser (28 km) | 1,481 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| Portage la Prairie (28 km) | 7,359 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| Headingley (28 km) | 5,368 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 17–28 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Cartier.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Cartier
Is Cartier safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Cartier’s Crime Severity Index stands at 67 for 2023–2025. Its police record 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Cartier?
The three biggest groups are break and enter at 5.6, other Criminal Code offences at 5.3 and mischief at 5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Cartier?
It went down 46% between 2023 and 2025, from 81.4 to 43.9.
How much of Cartier’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 68% of violent crime and 22% of everything else, 37% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Cartier and everywhere else it polices.
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).