Photo: HS01 · CC BY-SA 3.0Morris records more crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Morris reported put it at C for safety: #37 of 182 in Manitoba. Police clear 39% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 85.4 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Even so, recorded violent incidents ran at 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 29.7, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Morris detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Morris
Lighter than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Morris stood at 84.4, by 2025 at 62.5. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Morris, 85.4. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Morris records 5.2 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
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Morris comes 29th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity 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.
What’s behind Morris’s grade
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: #37 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,775 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Morris’s index dropped 26%
Crime Severity Index
At 109.3, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 62.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Morris | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 109.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 84.4 | 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 Morris, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Morris, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Morris runs highest on break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.8), motor vehicle theft (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.6) and mischief (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.9). 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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Morris places 29th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 7 | Ste. Anne Manitoba | 3,587 | 40.3 | 16.9 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 15 | Beausejour Manitoba | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 19 | WestLake-Gladstone Manitoba | 3,604 | 67.8 | 71.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Lac du Bonnet Manitoba | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,475 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| 27 | Carman Manitoba | 3,547 | 81.4 | 113 | C |
| 28 | Bright New Brunswick | 3,648 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| 29 | Morris Manitoba | 3,550 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| 30 | Studholm New Brunswick | 3,668 | 86 | 92.8 | C |
| 31 | Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part Ontario | 3,606 | 97.4 | 171.6 | C− |
| 32 | Malartic Quebec | 3,506 | 103.6 | 183.5 | 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 Morris in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
11,400 residents, about 120 violent incidents a year: the police area Morris belongs to, 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 Morris
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris | 3,550 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Morris (13 km) | 2,139 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| Montcalm (22 km) | 1,420 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| La Salle (31 km) | 9,215 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| St-Pierre-Jolys (35 km) | 1,371 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| Roland (35 km) | 1,283 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
The places around Morris all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, La Salle (30.7 km away), scores 67 against 85.4. 2 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 Morris with figures are 13–35 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Morris’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Morris
Is Morris safe?
Morris’s Crime Severity Index is 85.4 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 10.3 violent incidents and 29.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Morris?
Most often it is mischief: 7.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.9 and theft under $5,000 at 6.4.
Is crime going up in Morris?
It went down 26% between 2023 and 2025, from 84.4 to 62.5.
How much of Morris’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 39% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 81% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Morris 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).