Photo: Gretnaite · CC BY-SA 4.0Rhineland has more crime per resident than 71% of Canadian towns
Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. A Safety Grade of C follows from crime the police covering Rhineland reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #37 of 182 in Manitoba. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 85.4 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. For every 1,000 residents, 10.3 violent incidents and 29.7 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical town its size, the figures are 12.9 and 31.2.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Morris detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rhineland
Lighter than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Rhineland 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 ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Rhineland, 85.4. Towns its size ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Rhineland 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, Rhineland comes 32nd, 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.
The C for Rhineland, and how it is built
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 36 km from Rhineland, 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.
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.
In Rhineland, down 26% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
At 109.3, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 62.5. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rhineland | 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 Rhineland, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Rhineland’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Rhineland 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.
Rhineland is 32nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Devon Alberta | 6,965 | 76.7 | 61.5 | C+ |
| 30 | Pictou County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,575 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| 31 | Pictou County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,482 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| 32 | Rhineland Manitoba | 6,819 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| 33 | Sackville New Brunswick | 6,572 | 86.9 | 110.4 | C |
| 34 | Springhill Nova Scotia | 7,015 | 93.1 | 86.7 | C− |
| 35 | Annapolis County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,719 | 96 | 107.6 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Gimli Manitoba | 6,914 | 126.6 | 134.2 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Algoma, Unorganized, North Part Ontario | 7,008 | 302.3 | 509 | 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 Rhineland in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 120 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Rhineland (11,400 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 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 Rhineland
The places around Rhineland all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Altona (12.1 km away), scores 59.1 against 85.4.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
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.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Rhineland
Is Rhineland safe?
Rhineland’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. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Rhineland?
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 Rhineland?
No: the index fell 26%, from 84.4 in 2023 to 62.5 in 2025.
How much of Rhineland’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 39% of crime (81% of violent crime, 20% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Rhineland 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).