Photo: Felspar13 · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Rosser sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Across all the graded crimes, Rosser lands on B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, recorded violent incidents ran at 8.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 24.5, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. None of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 67 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Headingley detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rosser
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Rosser moved from 81.4 to 43.9, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Lighter than Manitoba’s middle
Rosser’s index of 67 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.
What’s behind Rosser’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 14 km off, which covers its own area rather than Rosser.
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.
In Rosser, down 46% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (81.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 43.9. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rosser | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 75.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 81.4 | 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 Rosser, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Rosser’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Rosser runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5), motor vehicle theft (3.9 per 1,000 against 2.4) and mischief (5 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.3 | 47% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 20 | 1 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 111.3 | 5.6 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.7 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 78 | 3.9 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.7 | 1.2 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 98.7 | 5 | 9% |
| Mischief | 101 | 5 | 29% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 55.7 | 2.8 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.7 | 0.4 | 56% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Impaired driving | 53.7 | 2.7 | 67% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
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 160 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Rosser (20,500 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 490 property crimes and 190 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 Rosser
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosser | 1,481 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| Buchanan | 3,473 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Crestview | 8,658 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Headingley | 5,368 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| St. François Xavier | 1,607 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| Heritage Park | 5,817 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Sturgeon Creek | 3,202 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Rosser. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.”
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Rosser
Is Rosser safe?
With 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Rosser comes to 67 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 Rosser?
Most often it is break and enter: 5.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 5.3 and mischief at 5.
Is crime going up in Rosser?
The reverse: 81.4 in 2023 came down to 43.9 by 2025, 46% lower.
How much of Rosser’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 37% of crime (68% of violent crime, 22% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rosser 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).