Photo: FiveXdollars · CC0More crimes per resident are recorded in Snow Lake than in 84% of Canadian towns
It grades C− for safety on crime the police covering Snow Lake reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 87.9 and other offences for 127.4, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Year on year, 16.9 violent incidents and 34.7 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Snow Lake detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Snow Lake
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Snow Lake records 9.5 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Snow Lake’s index splits into violent crime, 87.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 127.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Manitoba’s towns
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Snow Lake scores 115.4. 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.
Inside Snow Lake’s C− for safety
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.
What police record in Snow Lake, by type
Against the typical town its size, Snow Lake runs highest on drug offences (9.5 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (16.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (8.6 per 1,000 against 5.1). Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.9 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 2.7 | 2.4 | — |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 2 | 1.8 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 4.3 | 4 | — |
| Mischief | 17.7 | 16.3 | 38% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 1.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 3.7 | 3.4 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1 | 0.9 | — |
| Drug violations | 10.3 | 9.5 | 0% |
| Impaired driving | 4.7 | 4.3 | — |
| 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 police area Snow Lake is part of, 1,080 residents, recorded about 18 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.
And about 38 property crimes, plus 30 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Snow Lake’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (141.7) and 2025 the trough (95.1). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Snow Lake | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 141.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 109.4 | 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 Snow Lake, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Snow Lake
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Lake | 1,075 | 115.4 | 87.9 | C− |
| Kelsey (115 km) | 2,142 | 142.9 | 188 | D |
| Flin Flon (Part) (118 km) | 4,732 | 332 | 605.3 | D− |
| Division No. 21, Unorganized (121 km) | 1,820 | 1,013.4 | 2,192.7 | D− |
| Creighton (122 km) | 1,238 | 245.7 | 325.6 | D |
| The Pas (140 km) | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | D− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Snow Lake.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 115–140 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Snow Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Few people behind the figures. With roughly 1,075 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A wider policing area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Snow Lake’s are shared with its surroundings.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Snow Lake
Is Snow Lake safe?
Its police recorded 16.9 violent incidents and 34.7 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Snow Lake a Crime Severity Index of 115.4. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Snow Lake?
Top of the list is mischief (16.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 11, and drug offences, at 9.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Snow Lake?
No: the index fell 13%, from 109.4 in 2023 to 95.1 in 2025. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Snow Lake’s crime do police solve?
About 30% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 70% of violent and 19% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Snow Lake 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).