Photo: Daver112 · CC BY 3.0Cartwright-Roblin records less crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 34.6 for violence and 46.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Cartwright-Roblin reported put it at A− for safety. Its police logs show 6.6 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. The index rose from 37.8 in 2023 to 42.2 in 2025.
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 Killarney detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Cartwright-Roblin
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 42.8 in Cartwright-Roblin. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Cartwright-Roblin’s two halves part ways: 34.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 46.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A− for Cartwright-Roblin, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Cartwright-Roblin itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 26 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Cartwright-Roblin, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (48.4) and 2023 the trough (37.8). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cartwright-Roblin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.8 | 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 Cartwright-Roblin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 62 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Cartwright-Roblin (9,400 residents), 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 160 property crimes, plus 62 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Cartwright-Roblin’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 2.8 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 1.7 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 2.7 | 11% |
| Mischief | 37.7 | 4 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 1.7 | 64% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 15.7 | 1.7 | 34% |
| 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.
Crime in the places around Cartwright-Roblin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartwright-Roblin | 1,395 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Argyle (26 km) | 1,035 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Killarney (26 km) | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| Louise (34 km) | 2,086 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| Prairie Lakes (39 km) | 1,679 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Cartwright-Roblin. The nearest of them, Louise (34.2 km away), scores 26.8 against 42.8. 2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Cartwright-Roblin has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 26–39 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Cartwright-Roblin
Is Cartwright-Roblin safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Cartwright-Roblin comes to 42.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 6.6 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Cartwright-Roblin?
Most often it is fraud: 5.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 4 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.6.
Is crime going up in Cartwright-Roblin?
Yes: the index rose 12%, from 37.8 in 2023 to 42.2 in 2025.
How much of Cartwright-Roblin’s crime do police solve?
27%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 57% and non-violent crime at 19%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Cartwright-Roblin together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).