Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0Per resident, St. Clements records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 73.4 in 2023 to 65.3 by 2025. What’s more, typical years here bring 8.5 violent incidents plus 27.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 30.5 in the typical town its size. The overall Safety Grade is B− (#24 of 182 in Manitoba), which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 64.4, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 66.
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 Selkirk detachment area.
What stands out about safety in St. Clements
Under the Manitoba norm
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 64.4 in St. Clements. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, St. Clements’s two halves part ways: 49.4 for violence (typical 89.4) and 70.9 for the rest (typical 56). By type ↓
Motor vehicle theft: high for a town its size
St. Clements records 4.8 incidents of motor vehicle theft per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.4 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and St. Clements stands 30th, the lowest first. 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 sits behind St. Clements’s B−
How sure: Less sure, as St. Clements has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 3 km away.
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: #24 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,008 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
St. Clements’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, St. Clements runs highest on motor vehicle theft (4.8 per 1,000 against 2.4), mischief (7.4 per 1,000 against 3.7) and break and enter (4 per 1,000 against 2.2). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.2 | 66% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 81.7 | 4 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14 | 0.7 | 29% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 96 | 4.8 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12.7 | 0.6 | 2% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 120 | 6 | 8% |
| Mischief | 148.7 | 7.4 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 15 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.3 | 3.4 | 53% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 1 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 89.3 | 4.4 | 59% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.05 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
By its index, St. Clements stands 30th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hamilton Ontario | 11,810 | 25.7 | 30.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Summerland British Columbia | 12,343 | 56.2 | 38.6 | B |
| 28 | Morden Manitoba | 11,578 | 61.9 | 42.6 | B− |
| 29 | Chester Nova Scotia | 11,740 | 63.1 | 76.8 | B− |
| 30 | St. Clements Manitoba | 12,029 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| 31 | St. Andrews Manitoba | 12,021 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| 32 | Wellesley Ontario | 12,413 | 71.9 | 89.7 | C+ |
| 33 | Moncton New Brunswick | 12,238 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 39 | Selkirk Manitoba | 11,570 | 158 | 197.4 | D |
| 40 | Clearwater County Alberta | 11,856 | 188.3 | 342.3 | 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 St. Clements in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
St. Clements, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (73.4); 2024 was the lightest, at 54.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | St. Clements | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 54.4 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 73.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering St. Clements, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
The detachment closest to St. Clements, 20,100 residents, recorded about 170 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 540 a year and other violations 290 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around St. Clements
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clements | 12,029 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| Selkirk | 11,570 | 158 | 197.4 | D |
| St. Andrews | 12,021 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| Brokenhead | 5,931 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than St. Clements. Just 16 km away, Brokenhead comes to 58.8, against 64.4. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in St. Clements
Is St. Clements safe?
St. Clements measures 64.4 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 8.5 violent incidents and 27 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in St. Clements?
Police record mischief most, 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (7.2) and theft under $5,000 (6).
Is crime going up in St. Clements?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 11%, to 65.3 from 73.4.
How much of St. Clements’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 29% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 58% of violent and 21% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for St. Clements 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).