Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Whitemouth records more crime per resident than 64% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Whitemouth reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety. What’s more, its Crime Severity Index averaged 76.7 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. For every 1,000 residents, 14.3 violent incidents and 25.5 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2.
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: the Lac du Bonnet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Whitemouth
Heavier than in 2023
From 64.7 in 2023 to 86.1 in 2025: that is Whitemouth’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of Manitoba
Set among Manitoba’s towns, whose median is 129.3, Whitemouth scores 76.7. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Whitemouth records 8.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 45% of crime in Whitemouth ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 72% of violent crime and 32% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Whitemouth: C+ for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, as Whitemouth has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 32 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Whitemouth’s index climbed 33%
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 86.1, with 2023 the lightest at 64.7. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Whitemouth | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 79.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 64.7 | 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 Whitemouth, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Whitemouth’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Whitemouth runs highest on mischief (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.5). 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 | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 12 | 1.5 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30.3 | 3.7 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9 | 1.1 | 48% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18 | 2.2 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 1.1 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 41 | 5 | 10% |
| Mischief | 67.7 | 8.2 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 0.8 | 75% |
| Administration of justice violations | 48 | 5.8 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.8 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 12 | 1.5 | 31% |
| Impaired driving | 50.7 | 6.1 | 43% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
The detachment closest to Whitemouth, 8,310 residents, recorded about 120 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.
And about 210 property crimes, plus 160 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Whitemouth
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitemouth | 1,732 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Pinawa (20 km) | 1,653 | 39.8 | 55.1 | A |
| Reynolds (32 km) | 1,439 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Lac du Bonnet (32 km) | 1,136 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Lac du Bonnet (32 km) | 3,592 | 76.7 | 86.3 | C+ |
| Beausejour (40 km) | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Whitemouth. Pinawa, 20.4 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 39.8 to 76.7. 3 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 20–40 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Whitemouth.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. 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.
Questions about safety in Whitemouth
Is Whitemouth safe?
Whitemouth scores 76.7 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 14.3 violent incidents and 25.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Whitemouth?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 9.6, mischief at 8.2 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 7.1, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Whitemouth?
Yes: the index rose 33%, from 64.7 in 2023 to 86.1 in 2025.
How much of Whitemouth’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 45%: 72% for violent crime and 32% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Whitemouth together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).