Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0Per resident, River East records more crime than 88% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 197.6 for violence and 103.1 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). On crime the police covering River East reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety: #46 of 182 in Manitoba. Per 1,000 residents a year, 18.0 violent incidents and 58.8 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. By contrast, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 136.8 to 119.3.
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: the Winnipeg service area.
What stands out about safety in River East
Violent crime leads the index
River East’s index splits into violent crime, 197.6 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, and everything else, 103.1 against 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.
What’s behind River East’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how River East 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.
Crime across Winnipeg, by type
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.
River East, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 136.8, against a low of 119.3 in 2025. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | River East | 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 River East, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around River East
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River East | 7,774 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Valhalla | 3,153 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Springfield North | 8,327 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Rossmere-A | 13,613 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Rivergrove | 2,742 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Riverbend | 5,453 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Kildonan Drive | 5,063 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for River East is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in River East
Is River East safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 129.3 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where River East stands, with 18 violent and 58.8 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in River East?
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 River East?
It went down 13% between 2023 and 2025, from 136.8 to 119.3.
How much of River East’s crime do police solve?
33%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 47% and non-violent crime at 23%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).