Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Dauphin records more crime than 98% of Canadian towns
A Safety Grade of D− follows from crime the police covering Dauphin reported over the years 2023 to 2025. Police cleared 41% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Out of every 1,000 residents, 69.5 violent incidents and 95.1 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 693.6 and its non-violent half to 257.1, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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 published for the Ste. Rose du Lac detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Dauphin
Mischief: high for a town its size
Dauphin records 47.7 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the Manitoba norm
Dauphin’s index of 379.4 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 693.6 on Dauphin’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 257.1 against 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.
What’s behind Dauphin’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 41 km from Dauphin, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Which crimes make up Dauphin’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Dauphin runs highest on mischief (47.7 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (6.3 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (42.9 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8.3 | 1.3 | 36% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5.7 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 34.3 | 5.2 | 45% |
| Robbery | 7.7 | 1.2 | 56% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 1 | 40% |
| Breaking and entering | 59.3 | 9 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 39.7 | 6 | 20% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 72.7 | 11 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 76.3 | 11.6 | 17% |
| Mischief | 315.3 | 47.7 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 42 | 6.4 | 38% |
| Administration of justice violations | 152 | 23 | 66% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 41.3 | 6.3 | 34% |
| Drug violations | 41.3 | 6.3 | 25% |
| Impaired driving | 45.7 | 6.9 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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 460 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Dauphin (6,590 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.
Add about 630 property crimes and 440 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
In Dauphin, down 9% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (441.4) and 2025 the trough (332.7). 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 | Dauphin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 332.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 441.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 364.2 | 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 Dauphin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Dauphin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dauphin | 2,295 | 379.4 | 693.6 | D− |
| Dauphin (7 km) | 8,587 | 305.3 | 402.1 | D− |
| Lakeshore (31 km) | 1,344 | 379.4 | 693.6 | D− |
| Ste. Rose (45 km) | 1,651 | 379.4 | 693.6 | D− |
Sharing its police with 2 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Dauphin has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 7–45 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Dauphin
Is Dauphin safe?
Dauphin measures 379.4 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 69.5 violent incidents and 95.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Dauphin?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 48.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (47.7) and assault (42.9).
Is crime going up in Dauphin?
Down 9%: 364.2 in 2023, 332.7 in 2025.
How much of Dauphin’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 41% of crime (57% of violent crime, 23% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Dauphin 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).