Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Lac du Bonnet sees more crime per resident than 64% of Canadian towns
Police clear 45% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%. Still, each year brought 14.3 violent incidents and 25.5 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size). It grades C+ for safety on crime the police covering Lac du Bonnet reported from 2023 to 2025: #34 of 182 in Manitoba. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 76.7 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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 Lac du Bonnet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Lac du Bonnet
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Lac du Bonnet, yet 47% 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 ↓
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Lac du Bonnet stood at 64.7, by 2025 at 86.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 76.7 in Lac du Bonnet. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Lac du Bonnet records 8.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. 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 sits behind Lac du Bonnet’s C+
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: #34 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,587 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.
Lac du Bonnet’s index rose 33% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (86.1); 2023 was the low point, at 64.7. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lac du Bonnet | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.1 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 79.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 64.7 | 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 Lac du Bonnet, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Lac du Bonnet’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Lac du Bonnet runs highest on drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.8). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 12 | 1.5 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30.3 | 3.7 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9 | 1.1 | 48% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18 | 2.2 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 1.1 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41 | 5 | 10% |
| Mischief | 67.7 | 8.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.8 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 48 | 5.8 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.8 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 12 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Impaired driving | 50.7 | 6.1 | 43% |
| 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 to 10,000 people.
About 120 violent incidents a year across the police area of 8,310 residents that includes Lac du Bonnet, 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 210 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Lac du Bonnet is 20th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 6 | Ste. Anne Manitoba | 3,587 | 40.3 | 16.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Beausejour Manitoba | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 16 | WestLake-Gladstone Manitoba | 3,604 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| 17 | Saint-Thomas Quebec | 3,477 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 18 | Melancthon Ontario | 3,581 | 68.8 | 125.9 | B− |
| 19 | Dunham Quebec | 3,632 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 20 | Lac du Bonnet Manitoba | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| 21 | Blind River Ontario | 3,692 | 77.7 | 114 | C+ |
| 22 | Electoral Area L (Grasslands), Thompson-Nicola British Columbia | 3,543 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| 23 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,475 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Killarney Manitoba | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 Alberta | 3,592 | 495.1 | 602.4 | 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 Lac du Bonnet in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Lac du Bonnet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac du Bonnet | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Lac du Bonnet | 1,136 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Pinawa | 1,653 | 39.8 | 55.1 | A |
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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Lac du Bonnet’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Lac du Bonnet
Is Lac du Bonnet safe?
The short answer is an index of 76.7 for Lac du Bonnet (2023–2025), built from 14.3 violent incidents and 25.5 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Lac du Bonnet?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (9.6 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 8.2, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 7.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Lac du Bonnet?
It has: 64.7 in 2023 became 86.1 by 2025, a rise of 33%.
How much of Lac du Bonnet’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 45% of crime (72% of violent crime, 32% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Lac du Bonnet 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).