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VictoriaManitoba

The town has 1,333 residents and lies in Manitoba. It is part of Division No. 8, a census division.

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Victoria, Manitoba · Photo: FedexPope · CC BY 3.0

Population
1,333
people, 2025 estimate
Median age
45.6
years · Manitoba’s towns: 40
Postsecondary
44%
of residents 15 and over hold a postsecondary certificate, diploma or degree · Canadian towns: 56%
Walk, cycle, transit
15%
walk, cycle or take transit to work · Canadian towns: 8%

Is Victoria a good place to live?

Victoria’s strongest subject is safety (A+). It is strong on cost of living as well (A−). Health lags (C). Its other grades sit near the middle: B for walkability and B− for hazard risk.

Victoria is graded subject by subject, but Canadian towns need 2,500 residents for an overall grade.

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 Victoria grades

Each subject compares Victoria 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

Victoria is graded subject by subject, but Canadian towns need 2,500 residents for an overall grade.

How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →

What makes Victoria stand out

The 3 things Victoria does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Victoria.

SafetySafety A+

The force covering Victoria records less serious violence than Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns, at 37

27Crime Severity Index

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Victoria · Measured across the Manitou detachment area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Property crime in the area its police cover: 9.2 per 1,000 people a year. Across the area its police cover, the Crime Severity Index averaged 27 over 2023–25, below Manitoba’s towns (129) and Canadian towns (67) alike. Violent crime in the area its police cover: 5.6 per 1,000 people a year.

Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year

202323
202434
202524
2023–2025VictoriaManitobaCanada
Property crime per 1,0009.258.831.2
Crime Severity Index2712967
Violent Crime Severity Index3719886
Violent crime5.61812
23
non-violent Crime Severity Index
39%
of incidents cleared, 2023–25

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

HousingCost of living A−

Rent takes less of local pay in Victoria than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 15% of household income

$194,000median home value, 2021A−Cost of living Grade

Owners make up 88% of households, higher than both Manitoba’s towns (75%) and Canadian towns (74%). Shelter took 30% or more of income for nearly one in ten households, below both Manitoba’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (18%).

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

Victoria$194,000
Manitoba$300,000
Canadian towns$406,000
Census 2021VictoriaManitobaCanada
Households spending 30%+ on shelter9%15%18%
Rent as a share of income15%20%20%
Households owning their home88%75%74%
$730
monthly rent for a two-bedroom
$540
median monthly shelter cost for owners, 2021

Statistics Canada, Census 2021; CMHC Rental Market Survey via Statistics Canada · Home values are owners’ own estimates at the May 2021 census, and incomes are for 2020.

Work & commuteJobs & income B+

Working-age people in Victoria have jobs more often than in 84% of Canadian towns

15%walk, cycle or take transit

The average trip to work takes 23 min. The car took 83% of commuters, below both Manitoba’s towns (87%) and Canadian towns (89%).

How working residents got to work · census 2021

Car or van83%
Walk12%
Bicycle2%
Census 2021VictoriaManitobaCanada
Car or van83%87%89%
Average trip23 min24 min26 min
$70,000
median household income, 2020
23%
worked from home, May 2021
42%
of commuters work inside the municipality

Statistics Canada, Census 2021 (labour and commuting) · Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic, so commuting and work figures carry the lockdowns’ mark.

HealthHealth C

For health, Victoria gets a C

51%very good or excellent healthCHealth Grade

Women in the region live to 81.2 and men to 76.6, 78.8 years taken together (2022/2024). The region has more smokers than Manitoba, 15% of adults to 12%. A hospital lies 17 km from the typical home, higher than both Manitoba’s towns (3.1 km) and Canadian towns (3.7 km). On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Manitoba.

Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised

Victoria51%
Manitoba’s towns52%
Canadian towns52%
HealthVictoriaManitobaCanada
Smokers15%10%12%
Life expectancy at birth78.880.081.5
Chronic conditions (average share)18%18%17%
78.8
years of life expectancy, 2022/2024
17 km
from homes to a hospital, on average
15%
of adults smoke, age-standardised
49 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 · Area behind the health survey and life expectancy figures: the Prairie Mountain Health Region

Climate

January lows in Victoria: −20.1°C, against −21.2°C in Manitoba’s towns and −13.5°C in Canadian towns

25.9°CJuly afternoons

Most of the snow comes in December, about 34 cm. Frost usually lifts by 19 May and returns around 21 September: 124 days without it. There are 194 days of frost in a typical year, close to Manitoba’s towns (193) and above Canadian towns (159). June is the wettest month, with 91 mm of rain and snow on average.

Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020

Winter−8.3°C
Spring9.6°C
Summer24.9°C
Autumn10.5°C
Normals, 1991–2020VictoriaManitobaCanada
Precipitation a year517 mm519 mm883 mm
January night low−20.1°C−21.2°C−13.5°C
Days with frost a year194193159
July afternoon high25.9°C25.8°C25.5°C
194
days with frost a year
124
frost-free days, 19 May to 21 Sep
78
days with precipitation a year

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

Weather

In Victoria, November normally means freezing afternoons and −9°C nights

0°Ca normal November afternoon

A typical November adds 22 cm of snow. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 25 mm. Into December, the normals move to −7°C and −17°C. Over the year, July is warmest at 26°C by day and January coldest at −20°C by night.

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

November0°C
December−7°C
January−10°C
February−7°C
SeasonHighLowRain and snow
Winter−8°C−18°C64 mm
Spring10°C−3°C118 mm
Summer25°C12°C227 mm
Autumn10°C−1°C108 mm
−9°C
a normal November night
25 mm
of rain and snow in a normal November

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

Town hall

Grant Jackson (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Victoria in Ottawa as MP for Brandon—Souris

Victoria’s riding for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba isn’t named: the licence for the province’s boundary file couldn’t be read, so it isn’t used.

Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada

Library & civic lifeCivic life grade A+

Victoria Municipal Library is Victoria’s public library

It stands 9.5 km from the centre of Victoria.

Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada

Outdoors

Victoria has more protected land around it than 8 in 10 Canadian towns

9%of the land within 10 km protected

Some protected land is inside the town: 13% of its area. 85 km separate the town from Riding Mountain National Park, its nearest national park. One beach is mapped within 5 km: Carie Flats.

Protected land · of the land within 10 km

Victoria9%
Manitoba’s towns1.1%
Canadian towns2.3%
OutdoorsVictoriaManitobaCanada
Protected land within 10 km9%1.1%2.3%
Public protected areas within 10 km4124
85 km
to Riding Mountain National Park
At the edge
to Spruce Woods Provincial Park
1
beach within 5 km
4
public protected areas within 10 km

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

Natural hazardsHazard risk B−

35% of homes tested in Victoria’s area are above the radon guideline

Lowwildfire bandB−Hazard risk Grade

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Fire seldom reaches Victoria: since 1986, 0.1% of the land within 25 km has burned (0.004% a year). The national flood inventory has no study of the town. Nobody publishes radon tests for Victoria alone, so this card uses the figure for the Assiniboine health region.

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

Victoria35%
Manitoba’s towns12%
Canadian towns6.6%
HazardsVictoriaManitobaCanada
Radon tests above the guideline35%12%6.6%
Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year$0.005$0.006$0.030
Low
wildfire band
13 km
to the nearest land burned since 1986

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

Who lives here

Victoria has fewer immigrants than Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 4.3% of residents

45.6median age

First Nations, Métis and Inuit people make up 8.5% of residents, below Manitoba’s towns (12%) but above Canadian towns (2.8%).

VictoriaManitobaCanada

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

Schooling · Highest qualification, residents 15 and over

No certificate, diploma or degree24%
Postsecondary qualification44%

Women and men · all residents

Women make up 49.8% of Victoria

590 women and 595 men at the 2021 census; across Canada, women are 50.9%.

Who lives in Victoria
VictoriaManitobaCanada
Under 1519%17%16%
15 to 6455%64%64%
65+26%17%19%
No certificate, diploma or degree24%16%16%
Postsecondary qualification44%52%56%

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

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Victoria

15pages on Victoria

Famous people from Victoria

4 notable people were born in Victoria.

See all 4 →

About Victoria

Town in Manitoba

Every figure TownRatings gives for Victoria 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
1,333 (people, 2025 estimate)
Province or territory
Manitoba
Census division
Division No. 8
Census subdivision
4608042

Questions about Victoria

Who are the people of Victoria?

Visible minorities are 0% of the population, where the middle of Canadian towns is 15%. Immigrants make up 4%, and Indigenous people 9%.

What kind of homes are in Victoria?

Single-detached houses make up 91% of the homes here, where Canadian towns sit at 64%; 0% are in high-rise apartments. 29% of households are one person, and the average is 2.3.

How old are the people of Victoria?

45.6 is the median age, 45.2 the median among Canadian towns; 26% of residents are 65 or over and 19% under 15.

Has Victoria grown?

It added people: 1,132 in 2016, 1,188 in 2021, 4.9% more, where the middle of Canadian towns grew 4.1%. Statistics Canada’s 2025 estimate is 1,333.

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).