Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Prairie Lakes records less crime than 81% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 34.6 for violence and 46.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). It grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Prairie Lakes reported from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 6.6 violent incidents and 17.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. About 27% 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Killarney detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Prairie Lakes
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 43% of Prairie Lakes’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Lighter than Manitoba’s middle
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Prairie Lakes scores 42.8. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Prairie Lakes’s two halves part ways: 34.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 46.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Prairie Lakes’s A−
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 23 km from Prairie Lakes, 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.
Prairie Lakes’s index rose 12% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 48.4 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 37.8 in 2023. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Prairie Lakes | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 48.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 37.8 | 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 Prairie Lakes, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 62 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Prairie Lakes (9,400 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 160 property crimes and 62 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Prairie Lakes’s crime by kind
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 2.8 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 1.7 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25.3 | 2.7 | 11% |
| Mischief | 37.7 | 4 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 1.7 | 64% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 15.7 | 1.7 | 34% |
| 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.
Crime in the places around Prairie Lakes
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Lakes | 1,679 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Killarney (21 km) | 3,708 | 81.4 | 71.7 | C |
| Oakland-Wawanesa (31 km) | 1,869 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Boissevain (32 km) | 2,369 | 56.4 | 50.5 | B |
| Argyle (36 km) | 1,035 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
| Glenboro-South Cypress (39 km) | 1,759 | 42.8 | 34.6 | A− |
Prairie Lakes has the lowest index of the places around it. Sharing its police with 3 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 21–39 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Prairie Lakes.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. 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 Prairie Lakes
Is Prairie Lakes safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Prairie Lakes’s Crime Severity Index stands at 42.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 6.6 violent incidents and 17.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Prairie Lakes?
Top of the list is fraud (5.1 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 4, and other Criminal Code offences, at 3.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Prairie Lakes?
It went up 12% between 2023 and 2025, from 37.8 to 42.2.
How much of Prairie Lakes’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 27% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 57% of violent and 19% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Prairie Lakes together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).