Photo: Suburban Rapid Transit Co. via Winnipeg Electric Co. · Public domainHeadingley sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
A Crime Severity Index of 67, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Add to that, typical years here bring 8.2 violent incidents plus 24.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.9 plus 31.2 in the typical town its size. Taking everything together, Headingley scores B− (#28 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Each of the 6 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident.
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 published for the Headingley detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Headingley
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Headingley stood at 81.4, by 2025 at 43.9. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Under the Manitoba norm
Headingley’s index of 67 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Headingley records 5.6 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Headingley places 27th from the lowest index. 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.
Inside Headingley’s B− for safety
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: #28 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,144 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.
Headingley’s index fell 46% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (81.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 43.9. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Headingley | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 75.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Headingley, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Headingley, by type
Against the typical town its size, Headingley runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 2.6). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 20 | 1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 5.6 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 78 | 3.9 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.7 | 1.2 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 98.7 | 5 | 9% |
| Mischief | 101 | 5 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 2.8 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Impaired driving | 53.7 | 2.7 | 67% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
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.
By its index, Headingley stands 27th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood Ontario | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) British Columbia | 5,439 | 63.5 | 90.2 | B− |
| 25 | Grand Falls / Grand-Sault New Brunswick | 5,465 | 65.6 | 72.4 | B− |
| 26 | Stonewall Manitoba | 5,443 | 66.3 | 59.7 | B− |
| 27 | Headingley Manitoba | 5,368 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| 28 | Inverness County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 5,389 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 29 | Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Quebec | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| 30 | Coverdale New Brunswick | 5,167 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Oliver British Columbia | 5,262 | 132.5 | 95.2 | 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 Headingley in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Headingley is part of, 20,500 residents, recorded about 160 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 490 property crimes, plus 190 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 Headingley
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Headingley.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- 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, 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.
- A detachment’s area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Headingley is one part.
Questions about safety in Headingley
Is Headingley safe?
The short answer is an index of 67 for Headingley (2023–2025), built from 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Headingley?
Police record break and enter most, 5.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (5.3) and mischief (5).
Is crime going up in Headingley?
The reverse: 81.4 in 2023 came down to 43.9 by 2025, 46% lower.
How much of Headingley’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 37% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 68% of violent and 22% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Headingley and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).