Photo: Travel Manitoba · CC BY 2.0Dunnottar has more crime per resident than 65% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 76.8 to 68.1. By contrast, on the record of crime the police covering Dunnottar reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 77.3 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Behind the grade sit 11.0 violent incidents and 28.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Gimli detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Dunnottar
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 59% of Dunnottar’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 77.3 in Dunnottar. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Dunnottar’s index splits into violent crime, 72.1 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 80 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.
Dunnottar: C+ for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Dunnottar itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 21 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.
What police record in Dunnottar, by type
Against the typical town its size, Dunnottar runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5) and mischief (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 75.7 | 5.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.7 | 1.4 | 53% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.3 | 4.4 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 77 | 5.7 | 9% |
| Mischief | 90.3 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41 | 3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.3 | 0.9 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 1.1 | 34% |
| Impaired driving | 43 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5 | 0.4 | 14% |
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.
Dunnottar, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (87) and 2025 the trough (68.1). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Dunnottar | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 87 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 76.8 | 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 Dunnottar, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 150 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Dunnottar (13,700 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.
Property crime adds about 390 a year and other violations 170 (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 Dunnottar
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunnottar | 1,012 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Winnipeg Beach (6 km) | 1,480 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
| Gimli (21 km) | 6,914 | 126.6 | 134.2 | D |
| Teulon (23 km) | 1,289 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| Armstrong (29 km) | 2,062 | 77.3 | 72.1 | C+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Dunnottar. Same police, same number: 2 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Dunnottar with figures are 6–29 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Dunnottar
Is Dunnottar safe?
Statistics Canada puts Dunnottar at 77.3 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 11 and property crimes at 28.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Dunnottar?
Top of the list is mischief (6.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.5, and theft under $5,000, at 5.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Dunnottar?
No: the index fell 11%, from 76.8 in 2023 to 68.1 in 2025.
How much of Dunnottar’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 58% of violent crime and 21% of everything else, 31% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Dunnottar 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).