Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Harrison Park than in 83% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 149.1 and its non-violent half to 96.6, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. On the record of crime the police covering Harrison Park reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 18.7 violent incidents and 35.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. For solved cases, the weighted rate is 40%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Yellowhead detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Harrison Park
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Seasonal homes make up about 49% of Harrison Park’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Harrison Park records 8.5 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Up since 2023
Harrison Park’s index went from 103.6 in 2023 to 129.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Close to Manitoba’s typical town
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Harrison Park, 111. Towns its size ↓
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 Harrison Park’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Harrison Park itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 34 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.
Crime in Harrison Park, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Harrison Park runs highest on break and enter (8.5 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (11.1 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (5.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.6 | 93% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 84.7 | 8.5 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7 | 0.7 | 39% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 51 | 5.1 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7.3 | 0.7 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51.3 | 5.2 | 13% |
| Mischief | 110.3 | 11.1 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 58.7 | 5.9 | 58% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.1 | 47% |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 0.7 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 54.3 | 5.5 | 28% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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.
In Harrison Park, up 25% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 129.5, with 2024 the lightest at 99.8. 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 | Harrison Park | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 103.6 | 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 Harrison Park, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Harrison Park, 9,930 residents, recorded about 190 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.
And about 350 property crimes, plus 200 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 the places around Harrison Park
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Park | 1,916 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Clanwilliam-Erickson (22 km) | 1,051 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Yellowhead (33 km) | 1,867 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Minnedosa (39 km) | 2,859 | 89.9 | 92.1 | C |
| Oakview (39 km) | 1,670 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
| Minto-Odanah (48 km) | 1,168 | 111 | 149.1 | C− |
4 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Harrison Park has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 22–48 km out.
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. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Harrison Park
Is Harrison Park safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Harrison Park’s Crime Severity Index stands at 111 for 2023–2025. Its police record 18.7 violent incidents and 35 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Harrison Park?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (11.1) and assault (10.7).
Is crime going up in Harrison Park?
Yes: the index rose 25%, from 103.6 in 2023 to 129.5 in 2025.
How much of Harrison Park’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 40% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 71% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Harrison Park 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).