Photo: Sancho McCann from Vancouver · CC BY 2.0Silver Heights sees more crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
Year on year, 18.0 violent incidents and 58.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 197.6 and other offences to 103.1, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. That puts it at D for safety, judged on crime the police covering Silver Heights reported from 2023 to 2025: #46 of 182 in Manitoba. Even so, by 2025 the index had dropped to 119.3, down from 136.8 in 2023.
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. Source area for crime severity and crime rate: the Winnipeg service area.
What stands out about safety in Silver Heights
Heavier on violence
Violent crime scores 197.6 on Silver Heights’s index against 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+; non-violent crime, 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.
Inside Silver Heights’s D for safety
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Silver Heights’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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.
Winnipeg’s crime, type 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.
Silver Heights, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 136.8, and its lowest 2025, at 119.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Silver 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 Silver Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Silver Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Heights | 7,883 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Booth | 9,016 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Deer Lodge | 3,691 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Varsity View | 2,985 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Kirkfield | 4,100 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Heritage Park | 5,817 | 129.3 | 197.6 | D |
| Sturgeon Creek | 3,202 | 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
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Silver Heights is the city police’s, for the whole city.
Questions about safety in Silver Heights
Is Silver Heights safe?
Its police recorded 18 violent incidents and 58.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Silver Heights a Crime Severity Index of 129.3. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Silver 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 Silver Heights?
The reverse: 136.8 in 2023 came down to 119.3 by 2025, 13% lower.
How much of Silver Heights’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 33% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 47% of violent crime and 23% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).