Central River Heights has more crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is D, worked out from crime the police covering Central River Heights reported over 2023 to 2025: #46 of 182 in Manitoba. Each year brought 18.0 violent incidents and 58.8 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+). Split in two, the index gives 197.6 for violence and 103.1 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). The index fell from 136.8 in 2023 to 119.3 in 2025.
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 and crime rate published for the Winnipeg service area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Central River Heights
The violent half stands out
Central River Heights scores 197.6 for violence and 103.1 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 75.2 and 54.2. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Central River Heights: D for safety, and why
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Central River Heights itself compares.
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: #46 of 182 in Manitoba and #2,309 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Winnipeg’s figures
These are Winnipeg’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Winnipeg runs highest on robbery (3.5 per 1,000 against 0.4), mischief (16.8 per 1,000 against 3.8) and break and enter (6.3 per 1,000 against 2.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 36 | 0.04 | 90% |
| Sexual violations against children | 249 | 0.3 | 64% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 394 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 82 | 0.10 | 50% |
| Robbery | 2,888.7 | 3.5 | 31% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 58.7 | 0.07 | 82% |
| Other violent violations | 135.3 | 0.2 | 67% |
| Breaking and entering | 5,266.7 | 6.3 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 575 | 0.7 | 100% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3,409.7 | 4.1 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 382.7 | 0.5 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19,975 | 23.9 | 15% |
| Mischief | 14,004.7 | 16.8 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 970 | 1.2 | 87% |
| Administration of justice violations | 4,303 | 5.1 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 603 | 0.7 | 81% |
| Drug violations | 492 | 0.6 | 95% |
| Impaired driving | 444 | 0.5 | 99% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.01 | 45% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Central River Heights, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 136.8, against a low of 119.3 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Central River Heights | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 131.8 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 136.8 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Central River Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Central River Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central River Heights | 2,736 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| South River Heights | 2,632 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| North River Heights | 7,228 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Rockwood | 4,554 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Mathers | 2,785 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Tuxedo | 4,295 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Grant Park | 2,898 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Central River Heights carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Central River Heights
Is Central River Heights safe?
Statistics Canada puts Central River Heights at 129.3 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 18 and property crimes at 58.8 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Central River Heights?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (23.9 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 16.8, and assault, at 9.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Central River Heights?
The reverse: 136.8 in 2023 came down to 119.3 by 2025, 13% lower.
How much of Central River Heights’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 33%: 47% for violent crime and 23% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
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).