Photo: Mennowiki · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Mitchell than in 72% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 54.1 and other offences for 46, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. Graded on crime the police covering Mitchell reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ for safety: #13 of 182 in Manitoba. In a usual year, 9.3 violent incidents and 19.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 12.0 and 30.5.
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 Steinbach detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Mitchell
Under the Manitoba norm
Mitchell’s index of 48.1 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Mitchell places 16th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 54.1 on Mitchell’s index against 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 46 against 56. By type ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Mitchell records 6.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 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’s behind Mitchell’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 9 km from Mitchell, 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: #13 of 182 in Manitoba and #482 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up Mitchell’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Mitchell runs highest on mischief (6.2 per 1,000 against 3.7) and break and enter (2.5 per 1,000 against 2.2). Fraud 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 | 8 | 0.3 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 77 | 2.5 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73.3 | 2.4 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 30 | 1 | 1% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 125 | 4.1 | 13% |
| Mischief | 188 | 6.2 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 72.3 | 2.4 | 54% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.6 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 13.3 | 0.4 | 28% |
| Impaired driving | 67.3 | 2.2 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Around 280 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Mitchell (31,100 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 600 a year and other violations 240 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Mitchell is 16th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Saint-Colomban Quebec | 19,080 | 38 | 60.1 | A |
| 14 | Esquimalt British Columbia | 19,512 | 43 | 65.7 | A− |
| 15 | Bracebridge Ontario | 18,676 | 46.7 | 69.2 | A− |
| 16 | Mitchell Manitoba | 19,950 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| 17 | Rivière-du-Loup Quebec | 20,650 | 48.3 | 72.4 | B+ |
| 18 | Tillsonburg Ontario | 21,450 | 54.1 | 63.3 | B |
| 19 | Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario | 20,080 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Steinbach Manitoba | 21,671 | 96.5 | 99.5 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lloydminster (Part) Alberta | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | 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 Mitchell in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
From 2023 to 2025, Mitchell’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (48.8) and 2024 least (47.3). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mitchell | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.8 | 60 |
| 2024 | 47.3 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 48 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Mitchell, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Mitchell
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell | 19,950 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| Steinbach | 21,671 | 96.5 | 99.5 | C− |
| St-Pierre-Jolys | 1,371 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| La Broquerie | 7,808 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| De Salaberry | 4,401 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
Mitchell sits above 2 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, St-Pierre-Jolys (16.1 km away), scores 47.5 against 48.1. Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
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.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Mitchell
Is Mitchell safe?
Mitchell scores 48.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.3 violent incidents and 19.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Mitchell?
Top of the list is mischief (6.2 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 4.6, and other Criminal Code offences, at 4.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Mitchell?
The index stayed close to where it was, 48 in 2023 and 48.8 in 2025.
How much of Mitchell’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 59% of violent crime and 20% of everything else, 33% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Mitchell 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).