Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainStanley sees less crime per resident than 97% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 39.3 and 22.6. Graded on crime the police covering Stanley reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores A+ for safety: #3 of 182 in Manitoba. Annual rates stand at 4.6 violent incidents and 8.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Carman Area detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Stanley
Below Manitoba’s typical town
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Stanley scores 27.2. Towns its size ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Stanley’s index went from 27.8 in 2023 to 20 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Stanley is 2nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 43% of Stanley’s crime, weighted by seriousness (66% of violent crime, 27% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Stanley’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 41 km off, which covers its own area rather than Stanley.
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: #3 of 182 in Manitoba and #72 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Stanley’s crime by kind
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.3 | 79% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26 | 1.2 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 1.1 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 32.3 | 1.5 | 12% |
| Mischief | 49.7 | 2.2 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 30 | 1.4 | 82% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 31 | 1.4 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, Stanley’s index dropped 28%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 33.8; 2025 was the lightest, at 20. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stanley | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 33.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 27.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Stanley, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Among 40 towns its size, Stanley places 2nd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| 2 | Stanley Manitoba | 9,929 | 27.2 | 39.3 | A+ |
| 3 | Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury Quebec | 10,147 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 4 | Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Quebec | 9,830 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 5 | Palmerston Ontario | 10,029 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | East St. Paul Manitoba | 10,321 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | 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 Stanley in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Stanley, 22,300 residents, recorded about 100 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.
Add about 190 property crimes and 110 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 Stanley
The places around Stanley all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Stanley
Is Stanley safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Stanley scores 27.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 4.6 violent and 8.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Stanley?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 2.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (2.2) and assault (2.1).
Is crime going up in Stanley?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 28%, to 20 from 27.8.
How much of Stanley’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 43%: 66% for violent crime and 27% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town its size it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Stanley 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).