Photo: Jasonbook99 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gillam has more crime per resident than 94% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Gillam reported put it at D for safety. Within Manitoba, half the towns score under 129.3. Per 1,000 residents a year, 82.3 violent incidents and 65.0 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 435.5 and other offences to 141, beside norms of 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.
What stands out about safety in Gillam
A busy place, counted per resident
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Gillam, yet 40% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Gillam records 43.7 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 ↓
Police clear more here
Police cleared 64% of Gillam’s crime, weighted by seriousness (81% of violent crime, 43% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Gillam’s two halves part ways: 435.5 for violence (typical 86.4) and 141 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.
What’s behind Gillam’s grade
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.
Gillam’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Gillam runs highest on mischief (43.7 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (57.8 per 1,000 against 6.7) and drug offences (5.6 per 1,000 against 0.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 1.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 1.6 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.8 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9.3 | 7.5 | 35% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1.7 | 1.3 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10 | 8 | 43% |
| Mischief | 54.7 | 43.7 | 63% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.8 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 14 | 11.2 | 79% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 1.9 | — |
| Drug violations | 7 | 5.6 | 24% |
| Impaired driving | 7.3 | 5.8 | 23% |
| 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.
About 100 violent incidents a year reached Gillam’s police, 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 81 property crimes, plus 59 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Three years of Gillam’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (330); the lightest was 2024 (162). In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Gillam | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 330 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 162 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 179.4 | 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 Gillam, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 1,267 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Gillam
Is Gillam safe?
Its police recorded 82.3 violent incidents and 65 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Gillam a Crime Severity Index of 223.8. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Gillam?
The three biggest groups are assault at 57.8, mischief at 43.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 34.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Gillam?
Up 84%: 179.4 in 2023, 330 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Gillam’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 64% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 81% of violent and 43% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Gillam and nowhere else.
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).