Photo: RockyRoller · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime in Stonewall sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 66.3, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Stonewall grades B− for safety overall (#27 of 182 in Manitoba): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, each year brought 10.1 violent incidents and 29.8 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (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.
What stands out about safety in Stonewall
Lower than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Stonewall scores 66.3. Towns its size ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Stonewall moved from 72.2 to 55.4, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Stonewall records 9.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Stonewall is 25th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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 Stonewall’s grade
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: #27 of 182 in Manitoba and #1,018 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Stonewall’s index dropped 23%
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (72.2); 2025 was the lightest, at 55.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stonewall | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 71.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 72.2 | 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 Stonewall, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Stonewall’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Stonewall runs highest on mischief (9.3 per 1,000 against 4.9), drug offences (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (3.5 per 1,000 against 2.8). Assault 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 | 2 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18.7 | 3.5 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 1.4 | 64% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14 | 2.6 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.7 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 38.7 | 7.2 | 10% |
| Mischief | 49.7 | 9.3 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.9 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.3 | 4.3 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3 | 0.6 | — |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Impaired driving | 11.3 | 2.1 | 56% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
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.
Stonewall comes 25th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwood Ontario | 5,308 | 25.2 | 31.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Burton New Brunswick | 5,424 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 23 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) British Columbia | 5,439 | 63.5 | 90.2 | B− |
| 24 | Grand Falls / Grand-Sault New Brunswick | 5,465 | 65.6 | 72.4 | B− |
| 25 | Stonewall Manitoba | 5,443 | 66.3 | 59.7 | B− |
| 26 | Headingley Manitoba | 5,368 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| 27 | Inverness County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 5,389 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 28 | Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover Quebec | 5,242 | 72.2 | 124.7 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | The Pas Manitoba | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | 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 Stonewall in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 54 violent incidents a year on Stonewall’s police records (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 160 a year and other violations 73 (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 Stonewall
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall | 5,443 | 66.3 | 59.7 | B− |
| Stony Mountain (11 km) | 9,180 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| Rosser (20 km) | 1,481 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| Woodlands (23 km) | 4,057 | 100.9 | 127 | C− |
| West St. Paul (24 km) | 10,796 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
| St. Andrews (25 km) | 12,021 | 64.4 | 49.4 | B− |
Stonewall sits above 2 of the 5 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 23.8 km away, West St. Paul comes to 64.4, against 66.3.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 11–25 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Stonewall.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Stonewall
Is Stonewall safe?
Its police recorded 10.1 violent incidents and 29.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Stonewall a Crime Severity Index of 66.3. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Stonewall?
Mischief is the most common, at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (9.1) and theft under $5,000 (7.2).
Is crime going up in Stonewall?
It went down 23% between 2023 and 2025, from 72.2 to 55.4.
How much of Stonewall’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 48% of violent crime and 25% of everything else, 30% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Stonewall and nowhere else.
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).