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StanleyManitoba

TownGrade
A−
#354 of 2,556

9,929 people call this town in Manitoba home. It belongs to the Winkler metropolitan area.

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Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain
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Stanley, Manitoba · Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain

Population
9,929
people, 2025 estimate
Median age
25.6
years · Manitoba’s towns: 40
Postsecondary
27%
of residents 15 and over hold a postsecondary certificate, diploma or degree · Canadian towns: 56%
Walk, cycle, transit
4%
walk, cycle or take transit to work · Canadian towns: 8%

Is Stanley a good place to live?

A strong record with one exception. Overall, Stanley earns an A−: better than just over four fifths of Canadian towns, and #8 of 181 in Manitoba. Its strongest subject is safety (A+). Households here earn well (A). The trade-off is walkability (C−). At $376,000, the median home value in 2021 came to 4.2 times local household income. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for health and B for hazard risk.

Figures: home values and income: Statistics Canada, Census 2021.

This town's rent is the 2021 census rent scaled to 2025 by its province's ratio of surveyed to census rents: no rental survey covers it, so its Cost Grade is less sure. Safety less sure: no police service names this town, so its crime figure is the nearest police detachment's, shared with a wider area. No School Grade: this province doesn't publish comparable results school by school. Health is graded on the health region's survey figures and life expectancy, with the distance to hospital giving the town its own spread.

How Stanley grades

Each subject compares Stanley with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.

How grading works

How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →

What makes Stanley stand out

The 3 things Stanley does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Stanley.

SafetySafety A+

Violent crime weighs less where Stanley is policed than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 39

27Crime Severity Index

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Stanley · Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 for the Carman Area detachment area

The force’s area logs 4.6 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 27, lower than both Manitoba’s towns (129) and Canadian towns (67). On top of that, for every 1,000 residents of its police area, 8.7 property crimes are reported each year.

Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year

202328
202434
202520
2023–2025StanleyManitobaCanada
Property crime per 1,0008.758.831.2
Crime Severity Index2712967
Violent Crime Severity Index3919886
Violent crime4.61812
23
non-violent Crime Severity Index
43%
of incidents cleared, 2023–25

Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average

Work & commuteJobs & income A

Trips to work from Stanley are shorter than from Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 16 min on average

4%walk, cycle or take transit

By car: that was how 95% of commuters travelled at the census.

How working residents got to work · census 2021

Car or van95%
Walk4%
Public transit0%
Census 2021StanleyManitobaCanada
Average trip16 min24 min26 min
Car or van95%87%89%
$90,000
median household income, 2020
12%
worked from home, May 2021
10%
of commuters work inside the municipality

Statistics Canada, Census 2021 (labour and commuting) · The 2021 census was taken in May 2021, during COVID-19 restrictions: more people than usual worked from home or were off work.

Who lives here

Fewer of Stanley’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 1.8%

25.6median age

Visible minorities make up 1% of the population, below both Manitoba’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (15%).

StanleyManitobaCanada

Ages · Share of residents in each age group, Census 2021

Schooling · Highest qualification, residents 15 and over

No certificate, diploma or degree36%
Postsecondary qualification27%

Women and men · all residents

48.7% of Stanley’s residents are women

Census 2021 put women at 4,375 and men at 4,605; women are 50.9% of Canada.

Who lives in Stanley
StanleyManitobaCanada
Under 1531%17%16%
15 to 6463%64%64%
65+5.4%17%19%
No certificate, diploma or degree36%16%16%
Postsecondary qualification27%52%56%

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; Manitoba and Canada: medians of towns of 2,500+

Climate

Stanley has colder winter nights than 85% of Canadian towns

25.6°CJuly afternoons

June is the wettest month, with 89 mm of rain and snow on average. There are 182 days of frost in a typical year, lower than Manitoba’s towns (193) yet higher than Canadian towns (159). Between the last spring frost, 15 May, and the first in autumn, 28 September, lie 135 days. December is the snowiest month, with 34 cm on average.

Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

Winter−7.8°C
Spring9.4°C
Summer24.7°C
Autumn10.6°C
Normals, 1991–2020StanleyManitobaCanada
January night low−18.5°C−21.2°C−13.5°C
Precipitation a year528 mm519 mm883 mm
Days with frost a year182193159
182
days with frost a year
135
frost-free days, 15 May to 28 Sep
74
days with precipitation a year

Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Morden)

Schools

The 3 schools of Stanley: 2 elementary schools and 1 secondary school

3schools within 3 km

Measured from the centre, the closest high school lies 5.6 km off, above both Manitoba’s towns (1.1 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km).

SchoolLevelStudentsSystem
Morden Middle SchoolNearest elementary school, 0.8 kmElementaryElementary–English public
Garden Valley CollegiateNearest secondary school, 1.1 kmSecondarySecondary–English public

See all 3 schools →

Schools within 3 kmStanleyManitobaCanada
School boards263
Nearest elementary school5.6 km0.5 km0.5 km
Nearest secondary school5.6 km1.1 km1.2 km
5.6 km
to the nearest secondary school
5.6 km
to the nearest elementary school

Statistics Canada’s Open Database of Educational Facilities · In Manitoba, no schools grade. The province publishes no results school by school.

Natural hazardsHazard risk B

Around Stanley, 43% of tested homes have radon above the guideline

Lowwildfire bandBHazard risk Grade

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). The national flood inventory has no study for Stanley. Stanley shares its radon tests numbers with the rest of the Central health region.

Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³

Stanley43%
Manitoba’s towns12%
Canadian towns6.6%
HazardsStanleyManitobaCanada
Radon tests above the guideline43%12%6.6%
Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year$0.004$0.006$0.030
Low
wildfire band
2.2 km
to the nearest land burned since 1986

NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory

Weather

In Stanley, November normally means 1°C afternoons and −8°C nights

1°Ca normal November afternoon

Normal highs peak at 26°C in July; nights bottom out at −19°C in January. By December, a normal day reaches −7°C and a night falls to −15°C. November normally sees 27 mm of precipitation. Snow is normal by November, about 22 cm over the month.

Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

November1°C
December−7°C
January−10°C
February−7°C
SeasonHighLowRain and snow
Winter−8°C−17°C55 mm
Spring9°C−2°C126 mm
Summer25°C13°C227 mm
Autumn11°C1°C120 mm
−8°C
a normal November night
27 mm
of rain and snow in a normal November

ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Morden); the forecast is on the Weather page

Town hall

Branden Leslie (Conservative Party of Canada) holds Portage—Lisgar, the riding that includes Stanley

For local government, Stanley is a rural municipality.

Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada

Library & civic lifeCivic life grade A+

No public library stands in Stanley: the closest, Public library, is 4.5 km away

The next is Morden Library (Morden), 13 km away.

Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada

Outdoors

Stanley borders Pembina Valley Provincial Park

0.5%of the land within 10 km protected

For a swim, The Beach is the nearest of 3 beaches within 5 km. Biggest among them: Pembina Valley Wildlife Management Area, 3,059 ha, 0.4 km off. Of the country within 10 km, 0.5% lies in protected areas; the median Canadian town has 2.3%. National parks are all over 100 km off.

Protected land · of the land within 10 km

Stanley0.5%
Manitoba’s towns1.1%
Canadian towns2.3%
OutdoorsStanleyManitobaCanada
Public protected areas within 10 km3124
Protected land within 10 km0.5%1.1%2.3%
At the edge
to Pembina Valley Provincial Park
3
beaches within 5 km
3
public protected areas within 10 km

Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches

HealthHealth B−

Around Stanley, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent

51%very good or excellent healthB−Health Grade

Source area for health survey and life expectancy: the Southern Health Region

Across the region, life runs to 80.7 years on average: women 82.9, men 78.7, in 2022/2024. On average 19% of adults live with arthritis, diabetes or high blood pressure, higher than both Manitoba’s towns (18%) and Canadian towns (17%). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Stanley’s is long: 8.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical.

Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised

Stanley51%
Manitoba’s towns52%
Canadian towns52%
HealthStanleyManitobaCanada
Smokers13%10%12%
Chronic conditions (average share)19%18%17%
Life expectancy at birth80.780.081.5
80.7
years of life expectancy, 2022/2024
8.0 km
from homes to a hospital, on average
13%
of adults smoke, age-standardised
7.2 km
from homes to a pharmacy, on average

Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities

HousingCost of living B−

More households own their home in Stanley than in Manitoba’s towns or across Canadian towns: 96%

$376,000median home value, 2021B−Cost of living Grade

Rent took 15% of household income, below Manitoba’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%) alike. Shelter took 30% or more of income for just over one in ten households, lower than both Manitoba’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (18%).

What homes were worth · The median owner’s estimate at the 2021 census

Stanley$376,000
Manitoba$300,000
Canadian towns$406,000
Census 2021StanleyManitobaCanada
Households owning their home96%75%74%
Rent as a share of income15%20%20%
Households spending 30%+ on shelter11%15%18%
$950
monthly rent for a two-bedroom
$1,250
median monthly shelter cost for owners, 2021

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada · The 2021 census asked owners what their home was worth; those values, and 2020 incomes, are what this compares.

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Stanley

15pages on Stanley
Nearby attractions

Pembina Threshermen's Museum and 3 more in and around Stanley

Museums, historic sites, parks, gardens and days out in and near Stanley, the best known first.

All attractions →
Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata · ODCAF · federal and Québec heritage registers · CPCAD

Famous people from around Stanley

One notable person was born in Stanley; with them, the best known born in the towns around it.

Their page →
Photo credits

Ed Bickert: Courtesy of the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson, CC BY 2.0 · Loreena McKennitt: Małgorzata Skibińska, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chay Genoway: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0 · Eric Fehr: Pens Through My Lens, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dustin Penner: Dan4th Nicholas, CC BY 2.0

About Stanley

Town in Manitoba

Every figure TownRatings gives for Stanley covers the municipality as Statistics Canada maps it, one census subdivision in Manitoba.

Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.

Population
9,929 (people, 2025 estimate)
Province or territory
Manitoba
Census division
Division No. 3
Metro area
Winkler
Census subdivision
4603047

Stanley’s neighbours

The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada

WinklerMordenRhinelandWinklerMordenRhinelandStanley
How the neighbours grade
TownPeoplekmOverallCostSafetyHealth
Stanley9,929—A−B−A+B−
Winkler16,1564.6BC−A−B−
Morden11,57813B−CB−C+
Rhineland6,81917C+B−CB−

People: Statistics Canada, Census 2021. Distances: centre to centre.

Questions about Stanley

What kind of homes are in Stanley?

92% of homes are single-detached houses, against 64% for the median of Canadian towns, and 0% are in apartment buildings of five storeys or more. A household averages 3.9 people; 8% are one person living alone.

Is Stanley a young town or an old one?

The typical resident is 25.6 (Canadian towns: 45.2), with seniors at 5% of the population and under-15s at 31%.

Has Stanley grown?

It added people: 8,969 in 2016, 8,981 in 2021, 0.1% more, where the middle of Canadian towns grew 4.1%. Statistics Canada’s 2025 estimate is 9,929.

Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155) and 2021 census boundaries · Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2023–25 (35-10-0026, 35-10-0183 to 35-10-0190) · CMHC rents as published by Statistics Canada (34-10-0133) · grades by TownRatings. 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).