Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Deloraine-Winchester has less crime per resident than 81% of Canadian towns
About 27% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 34.6 and its non-violent half to 46.4, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Graded on crime the police covering Deloraine-Winchester reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A− for safety. Violence and property crime split as 6.6 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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: the Killarney detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Deloraine-Winchester
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Deloraine-Winchester’s index of 42.8 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Deloraine-Winchester scores 34.6 for violence and 46.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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 Deloraine-Winchester’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Deloraine-Winchester itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 59 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Deloraine-Winchester’s index climbed 12%
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 48.4 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 37.8 in 2023. 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 | Deloraine-Winchester | 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 Deloraine-Winchester, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 62 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Deloraine-Winchester (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.
Crime in Deloraine-Winchester, type by type
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 Deloraine-Winchester
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deloraine-Winchester | 1,553 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Boissevain (32 km) | 2,369 | 56.4 | 50.5 | B |
| Souris (51 km) | 2,737 | 54.2 | 56.4 | B |
| Killarney (60 km) | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| Prairie Lakes (63 km) | 1,679 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Oakland-Wawanesa (71 km) | 1,869 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Deloraine-Winchester. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Deloraine-Winchester with figures are 32–71 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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 Deloraine-Winchester
Is Deloraine-Winchester safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 42.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Deloraine-Winchester stands, with 6.6 violent and 17.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Deloraine-Winchester?
The three biggest groups are fraud at 5.1, mischief at 4 and other Criminal Code offences at 3.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Deloraine-Winchester?
It has: 37.8 in 2023 became 42.2 by 2025, a rise of 12%.
How much of Deloraine-Winchester’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 27%: 57% for violent crime and 19% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Deloraine-Winchester 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).