Photo: Beems3 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Manitouwadge records more crime than 75% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 166.1 and 63.7. The Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crime the police covering Manitouwadge reported through 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 17.9 violent incidents and 23.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared 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. Measured across the Marathon (Manitouwadge) detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Manitouwadge
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 72% for Manitouwadge (90% violent, 52% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Above Ontario’s typical town
Set among Ontario’s towns, whose median is 56.2, Manitouwadge scores 92.4. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Manitouwadge scores 166.1 for violence and 63.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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.
What’s behind Manitouwadge’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Manitouwadge, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Manitouwadge runs highest on mischief (5.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and assault (8.1 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5.7 | 2.8 | 40% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4 | 1.9 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 1.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12 | 5.9 | 19% |
| Mischief | 12 | 5.9 | 33% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 10.7 | 5.2 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 1.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Impaired driving | 3.3 | 1.6 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
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.
About 37 violent incidents a year across the police area of 2,050 residents that includes Manitouwadge, 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 47 property crimes and 27 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Manitouwadge’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 126.7, against a low of 45.4 in 2025. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Manitouwadge | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 105 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 126.7 | 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 Manitouwadge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Manitouwadge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manitouwadge | 2,052 | 92.4 | 166.1 | C |
| Marathon (60 km) | 3,223 | 74.7 | 120.7 | C+ |
| Terrace Bay (100 km) | 1,553 | 41.7 | 53.6 | A− |
| Geraldton (104 km) | 4,398 | 198.8 | 261.9 | D |
2 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Manitouwadge. The nearest of them, Marathon (60.2 km away), scores 74.7 against 92.4.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 60–104 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Manitouwadge.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Few people behind the figures. About 2,052 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Manitouwadge’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Manitouwadge
Is Manitouwadge safe?
Manitouwadge measures 92.4 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 17.9 violent incidents and 23.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Manitouwadge?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 8.1 and theft under $5,000 at 5.9.
Is crime going up in Manitouwadge?
No: the index fell 64%, from 126.7 in 2023 to 45.4 in 2025. The police area is small or partly reported, so treat the change with care.
How much of Manitouwadge’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 72%: 90% for violent crime and 52% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Manitouwadge 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).