Photo: Wtshymanski · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Montcalm records more crime than seven in ten Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 85.4, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.3 violent incidents and 29.7 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Measured on crime the police covering Montcalm reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 39% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Morris detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Montcalm
Less severe than in 2023
Montcalm’s index went from 84.4 in 2023 to 62.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Montcalm, 85.4. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Montcalm records 7.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C for Montcalm
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 25 km from Montcalm, 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
In Montcalm, down 26% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 109.3; 2025 was lightest, at 62.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Montcalm | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 109.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 84.4 | 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 Montcalm, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Montcalm, by type
Against the typical town its size, Montcalm runs highest on break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 58.3 | 5.2 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 15 | 1.3 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 46.3 | 4.1 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 1 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 71.3 | 6.4 | 13% |
| Mischief | 80.7 | 7.2 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.5 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 36 | 3.2 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.7 | 41% |
| Drug violations | 10.3 | 0.9 | 26% |
| Impaired driving | 30.7 | 2.7 | 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 120 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Montcalm (11,400 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.
Add about 330 property crimes and 220 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Montcalm
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montcalm | 1,420 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Morris (11 km) | 2,139 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Altona (22 km) | 4,989 | 59.1 | 44 | B− |
| Morris (22 km) | 3,550 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Emerson-Franklin (23 km) | 2,686 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Montcalm. Closest is Altona, 22.3 km away, at 59.1 to 85.4 here. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 11–23 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Montcalm.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Montcalm
Is Montcalm safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 85.4 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Montcalm stands, with 10.3 violent and 29.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Montcalm?
Top of the list is mischief (7.2 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.9, and theft under $5,000, at 6.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Montcalm?
Down 26%: 84.4 in 2023, 62.5 in 2025.
How much of Montcalm’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 81% of violent crime and 20% of everything else, 39% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Montcalm 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).