Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Stuartburn has less crime per resident than 72% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 54.1 and other offences for 46, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Measured on crime the police covering Stuartburn reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of B+. What’s more, recorded violent incidents ran at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 19.8, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Steinbach detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Stuartburn
Lower than most of Manitoba
Within Manitoba, the median town comes to 129.3 on the index, against 48.1 in Stuartburn. 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 Stuartburn’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Stuartburn itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 45 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Which crimes make up Stuartburn’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Stuartburn runs highest on mischief (6.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 8 | 0.3 | 50% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 77 | 2.5 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 73.3 | 2.4 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 30 | 1 | 1% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 125 | 4.1 | 13% |
| Mischief | 188 | 6.2 | 30% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.3 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 72.3 | 2.4 | 54% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16.7 | 0.6 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 13.3 | 0.4 | 28% |
| Impaired driving | 67.3 | 2.2 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
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.
Around 280 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Stuartburn (31,100 residents), 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 600 a year and other violations 240 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Stuartburn’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (48.8); the lightest was 2024 (47.3). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stuartburn | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 47.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 48 | 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 Stuartburn, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Stuartburn
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuartburn | 1,907 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| La Broquerie (37 km) | 7,808 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
| De Salaberry (38 km) | 4,401 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| Emerson-Franklin (39 km) | 2,686 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| Steinbach (41 km) | 21,671 | 96.5 | 99.5 | C− |
| Mitchell (42 km) | 19,950 | 48.1 | 54.1 | B+ |
Stuartburn sits above 2 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, De Salaberry (37.6 km away), scores 47.5 against 48.1. Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 37–42 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Stuartburn.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Stuartburn
Is Stuartburn safe?
Stuartburn scores 48.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.3 violent incidents and 19.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Stuartburn?
Mischief is the most common, at 6.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (4.6) and other Criminal Code offences (4.3).
Is crime going up in Stuartburn?
The index stayed close to where it was, 48 in 2023 and 48.8 in 2025.
How much of Stuartburn’s crime do police solve?
About 33% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 59% of violent and 20% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Stuartburn and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).