Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Grey records less crime per resident than 97% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Grey reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A+ for safety: #3 of 182 in Manitoba. Each year brought 4.6 violent incidents and 8.7 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). Violence accounts for an index of 39.3 and other offences for 22.6, against usual levels of 85.7 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Carman Area detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Grey
Lighter than Manitoba’s middle
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Grey scores 27.2. Towns its size ↓
Down since 2023
Grey’s index went from 27.8 in 2023 to 20 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Grey is 2nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 43% of Grey’s crime, weighted by seriousness (66% of violent crime, 27% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Grey’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 22 km from Grey, not to the town.
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.
Its place: #3 of 182 in Manitoba and #72 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Grey, down 28% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 33.8, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 20. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Grey | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 33.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 27.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Grey, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Grey’s crime by kind
Mischief and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26 | 1.2 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 32.3 | 1.5 | 12% |
| Mischief | 49.7 | 2.2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 30 | 1.4 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.4 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Grey comes 2nd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonfield Ontario | 2,597 | 24.3 | 39.2 | A+ |
| 2 | Grey Manitoba | 2,655 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| 3 | Electoral Area A, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 2,668 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| 4 | Saint-Bernard Quebec | 2,680 | 37.7 | 68.7 | A |
| 5 | Eastman Quebec | 2,706 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Emerson-Franklin Manitoba | 2,686 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Swan Valley West Manitoba | 2,702 | 169.9 | 227.9 | D |
| 37 | Russell Manitoba | 2,715 | 170 | 183.3 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Ronge Saskatchewan | 2,668 | 715.9 | 1,169 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Grey in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment nearest Grey, 22,300 residents: around 100 violent incidents a year, 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 190 a year and other violations 110 (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 Grey
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey | 2,655 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| Dufferin (16 km) | 2,587 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| Carman (23 km) | 3,547 | 81.4 | 113 | C |
| Portage la Prairie (31 km) | 7,359 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| Portage la Prairie (34 km) | 14,738 | 243.3 | 285.8 | D |
| Norfolk-Treherne (35 km) | 1,960 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
Nearby, 1 of 4 places with their own figures have a lower index than Grey. Closest is Norfolk-Treherne, 35.1 km away, at 26.8 to 27.2 here. One place nearby is policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Grey with figures are 16–35 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Grey
Is Grey safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Grey scores 27.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 4.6 violent and 8.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Grey?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 2.8, mischief at 2.2 and assault at 2.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Grey?
Down 28%: 27.8 in 2023, 20 in 2025.
How much of Grey’s crime do police solve?
43%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 66% and non-violent crime at 27%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Grey 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).