Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Louise records less crime than 98% of Canadian towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 5.6 violent incidents and 9.2 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its Safety Grade is A+, on crime the police covering Louise reported from 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 36.9 and other offences to 23, 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Manitou detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Louise
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Louise’s index of 26.8 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. 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 Louise’s A+ for safety
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Louise itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 27 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.
Which crimes make up Louise’s figures
Mischief and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 7 | 1 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 8 | 1.2 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 11 | 1.6 | 30% |
| Mischief | 18.7 | 2.7 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 11.7 | 1.7 | 60% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 8 | 1.2 | 46% |
| 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 38 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Louise (6,880 residents), 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 63 a year and other violations 35 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Louise’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 33.5, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2023, came in at 23.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Louise | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 33.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 23.2 | 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 Louise, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Louise
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louise | 2,086 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| Argyle (24 km) | 1,035 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Pembina (27 km) | 2,502 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| Lorne (31 km) | 3,022 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
| Cartwright-Roblin (34 km) | 1,395 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Victoria (48 km) | 1,333 | 26.8 | 36.9 | A+ |
Louise has the lowest index of the places around it. 3 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. The nearest places to Louise with figures are 24–48 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Louise
Is Louise safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Louise comes to 26.8. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 5.6 violent incidents and 9.2 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Louise?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 3.2, mischief at 2.7 and assault at 2.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Louise?
Not much: the index went from 23.2 in 2023 to 23.7 in 2025.
How much of Louise’s crime do police solve?
39%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 66% and non-violent crime at 21%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Louise 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).