Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Pinawa records less crime than 85% of Canadian towns
Its two neighbours with figures both record more crime per resident. Measured on crime the police covering Pinawa reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A. What’s more, each year brought 8.4 violent incidents and 15.7 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Split in two, the index gives 55.1 for violence and 34 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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.
What stands out about safety in Pinawa
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Pinawa’s index of 39.8 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.
Pinawa: A 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.
Police in Pinawa recorded about 14 violent incidents a year, 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 25 a year and other violations 11 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Pinawa’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Pinawa runs highest on mischief (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 3.3 | 2.1 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 4 | 2.5 | — |
| Mischief | 9.3 | 5.8 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 3.3 | 2.1 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1 | 0.6 | — |
| Drug violations | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 4 | 2.5 | — |
| 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.
The index in Pinawa, each year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 41.9; 2023 was the lightest, at 37.9. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pinawa | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.9 | 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 Pinawa, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Pinawa
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinawa | 1,653 | 39.8 | 55.1 | A |
| Lac du Bonnet | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Lac du Bonnet | 1,136 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
The places around Pinawa all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A small police area. About 1,653 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
Questions about safety in Pinawa
Is Pinawa safe?
Police-reported crime in Pinawa scores 39.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.4 violent incidents and 15.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pinawa?
Police record mischief most, 5.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (4.7) and other Criminal Code offences (3.5).
Is crime going up in Pinawa?
Hardly at all, from 37.9 in 2023 to 39.6 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Pinawa’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 27%: 52% for violent crime and 16% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Pinawa alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).