Photo: s.yume from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Winkler than in 76% of Canadian towns
The index held steady between 2023 (47.4) and 2025 (45). Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 56.3 and 41.8. Its Safety Grade is A−, on crime the police covering Winkler reported from 2023 to 2025: #8 of 182 in Manitoba. Violence and property crime split as 9.9 violent incidents and 20.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 30.5 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 Winkler
Lower than most of Manitoba
Winkler’s index of 45.7 compares with 129.3 for the typical town in Manitoba. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Winkler places 13th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 44% of crime in Winkler ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 67% of violent crime and 32% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. 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 Winkler’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: #8 of 182 in Manitoba and #415 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Which crimes make up Winkler’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Winkler runs highest on mischief (5.1 per 1,000 against 3.7). Break and enter and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.5 | 92% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 19.7 | 1.3 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 12.3 | 0.8 | 22% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.7 | 0.4 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 127.7 | 8.1 | 29% |
| Mischief | 80.3 | 5.1 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 82.3 | 5.2 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.6 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 0.8 | 71% |
| Impaired driving | 21 | 1.3 | 46% |
| 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Winkler comes 13th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 10 | Pincourt Quebec | 15,220 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 11 | Comox British Columbia | 15,884 | 40.6 | 39.2 | A− |
| 12 | Severn Ontario | 15,716 | 41.7 | 48.8 | A− |
| 13 | Winkler Manitoba | 16,156 | 45.7 | 56.3 | A− |
| 14 | Bécancour Quebec | 14,943 | 46.5 | 64.3 | A− |
| 15 | Ingersoll Ontario | 14,911 | 47.7 | 60.5 | B+ |
| 16 | Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Quebec | 15,904 | 47.9 | 61 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Oakbank Manitoba | 17,494 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | North Battleford Saskatchewan | 14,882 | 528.4 | 591.9 | 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 Winkler in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Police in Winkler recorded about 160 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 330 property crimes and 160 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Winkler, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 47.4, against a low of 44.7 in 2024. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Winkler | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | 60 |
| 2024 | 44.7 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 47.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Winkler, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Winkler
Winkler sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Stanley, 4.6 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 27.2 to 45.7.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Winkler
Is Winkler safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 45.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where Winkler stands, with 9.9 violent and 20.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Winkler?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (8.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.4, and mischief, at 5.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Winkler?
Not much: the index went from 47.4 in 2023 to 45 in 2025.
How much of Winkler’s crime do police solve?
44%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 32%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Winkler alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).