Photo: Armstrong, William, 1822-1914 · Public domainFor recorded crime, St. François Xavier sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 67 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. On top of that, the yearly rates were 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. St. François Xavier’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Its 3 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident.
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. Shared with the rest of the Headingley detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in St. François Xavier
Lighter than in 2023
St. François Xavier’s index went from 81.4 in 2023 to 43.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 67 in St. François Xavier. 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 St. François Xavier’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 15 km from St. François Xavier, 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.
From 2023 to 2025, St. François Xavier’s index dropped 46%
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 81.4 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 43.9. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | St. François Xavier | 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 St. François Xavier, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
St. François Xavier’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, St. François Xavier 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.
The detachment nearest St. François Xavier, 20,500 residents: around 160 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 490 property crimes, plus 190 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around St. François Xavier
The places around St. François Xavier all score higher on the index. 3 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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 St. François Xavier
Is St. François Xavier safe?
Police-reported crime in St. François Xavier scores 67 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 8.2 violent incidents and 24.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in St. François Xavier?
Top of the list is break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.3, and mischief, at 5, follow.
Is crime going up in St. François Xavier?
No: the index fell 46%, from 81.4 in 2023 to 43.9 in 2025.
How much of St. François Xavier’s crime do police solve?
About 37% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 68% of violent and 22% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving St. François Xavier 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).