Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY 3.0Crime per resident in Morris runs higher than in 71% of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 85.4, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its police logs show 10.3 violent incidents and 29.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. It grades C for safety on crime the police covering Morris reported from 2023 to 2025. About 39% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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
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 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Morris moved from 84.4 to 62.5, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Morris’s index of 85.4 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.
Morris: C for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Morris: down 26%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 109.3; 2025 was the lightest, at 62.5. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Morris | 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 Morris, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Morris’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Morris 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 across the police area of 11,400 residents that includes Morris, 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.
And about 330 property crimes, plus 220 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Morris
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Morris is one part.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. 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.
Questions about safety in Morris
Is Morris safe?
With 10.3 violent incidents and 29.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Morris comes to 85.4 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Morris?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 7.2, other Criminal Code offences at 6.9 and theft under $5,000 at 6.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Morris?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 26%, to 62.5 from 84.4.
How much of Morris’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 39% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 81% of violent and 20% of non-violent crime.
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).