Photo: Spark802 · CC BY-SA 4.0Oakbank is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 58.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 66. The overall Safety Grade is B (#17 of 182 in Manitoba), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Each of the 5 towns on its borders with figures records more crime per resident. Typical years here bring 7.7 violent incidents plus 27.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 30.5 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: one figure for all of the Oakbank Area detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Oakbank
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Oakbank’s two halves part ways: 39.1 for violence (typical 89.4) and 67.2 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 58.8 in Oakbank. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Oakbank records 4.4 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Oakbank stands 22nd, the lowest first. 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.
The grade: B for Oakbank
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: #17 of 182 in Manitoba and #888 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.
Oakbank’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Oakbank runs highest on break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.2), mischief (7 per 1,000 against 3.7) and motor vehicle theft (3.7 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.3 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.3 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 109.3 | 4.4 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19.3 | 0.8 | 66% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 89.3 | 3.7 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 28 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 146.3 | 6 | 12% |
| Mischief | 172.3 | 7 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.7 | 2.8 | 78% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.3 | 0.6 | 44% |
| Drug violations | 11 | 0.5 | 55% |
| Impaired driving | 104 | 4.3 | 68% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Year by year in Oakbank: up 12%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (65.6); the lightest was 2024 (52.4). For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 69.5 and 2025 gave 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Oakbank | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65.6 | 60 |
| 2024 | 52.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 58.5 | 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 Oakbank, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Oakbank places 22nd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oak Bay British Columbia | 18,626 | 26.7 | 23.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Winkler Manitoba | 16,156 | 45.7 | 56.3 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Listowel Ontario | 18,168 | 53 | 54 | B+ |
| 20 | Smithville Ontario | 16,586 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 21 | Lavaltrie Quebec | 15,996 | 58 | 90.3 | B |
| 22 | Oakbank Manitoba | 17,494 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 23 | L'Ancienne-Lorette Quebec | 17,876 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| 24 | Strathmore Alberta | 16,416 | 66.8 | 78.9 | B− |
| 25 | Sturgeon Falls Ontario | 16,682 | 66.8 | 82.7 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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 Oakbank in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 190 violent incidents a year across the police area of 21,100 residents that includes Oakbank, 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 680 property crimes, plus 280 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 Oakbank
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakbank | 17,494 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| Canterbury Park | 8,744 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Kildare-Redonda | 8,294 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Radisson | 3,653 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Victoria West | 3,687 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Meadows | 3,822 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| East St. Paul | 10,321 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
The places around Oakbank all score higher on the index. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Oakbank together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Oakbank
Is Oakbank safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 58.8 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Oakbank stands, with 7.7 violent and 27.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Oakbank?
Most often it is mischief: 7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6 and theft under $5,000 at 6.
Is crime going up in Oakbank?
It went up 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 58.5 to 65.6.
How much of Oakbank’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 63% of violent crime and 22% of everything else, 29% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Oakbank 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).