Photo: Rob Swystun from Winnipeg, Canada · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Winnipeg Beach records more crime than 65% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 76.8 in 2023 to 68.1 by 2025. By contrast, a Crime Severity Index of 77.3, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Scored on crime the police covering Winnipeg Beach reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C+ for safety. The local count comes to 11.0 violent incidents and 28.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Gimli detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Winnipeg Beach
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Winnipeg Beach, yet 54% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Below Manitoba’s typical town
The typical Manitoba town scores 129.3; Winnipeg Beach, 77.3. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Winnipeg Beach’s two halves part ways: 72.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 80 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C+ for Winnipeg Beach
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 15 km from Winnipeg Beach, not to the town.
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.
Winnipeg Beach’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Winnipeg Beach runs highest on break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.5), motor vehicle theft (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and mischief (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 75.7 | 5.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.7 | 1.4 | 53% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 59.3 | 4.4 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 77 | 5.7 | 9% |
| Mischief | 90.3 | 6.7 | 18% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 41 | 3 | 80% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.3 | 0.9 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 1.1 | 34% |
| Impaired driving | 43 | 3.2 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5 | 0.4 | 14% |
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.
Winnipeg Beach, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 87, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in at 68.1. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Winnipeg Beach | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 87 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 76.8 | 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 Winnipeg Beach, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 150 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Winnipeg Beach (13,700 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 390 a year and other violations 170 (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 Winnipeg Beach
Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Winnipeg Beach
Is Winnipeg Beach safe?
Police-reported crime in Winnipeg Beach scores 77.3 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 11 violent incidents and 28.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Winnipeg Beach?
Mischief is the most common, at 6.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (6.5) and theft under $5,000 (5.7).
Is crime going up in Winnipeg Beach?
Down 11%: 76.8 in 2023, 68.1 in 2025.
How much of Winnipeg Beach’s crime do police solve?
31%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 58% and non-violent crime at 21%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Winnipeg Beach 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).