Photo: Neil and Kathy Carey from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0For recorded crime, Morell sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 61.6 over 2023–2025, against 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, the overall Safety Grade is B−, which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Typical years here bring 14.4 violent incidents plus 28.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 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 Three Rivers detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Morell
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
With 38% of its homes not lived in all year, Morell counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Morell records 13.7 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Up since 2023
In 2023 the index in Morell stood at 59.8, by 2025 at 71.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Higher than most of Prince Edward Island
Set among Prince Edward Island’s towns, whose median is 46.7, Morell scores 61.6. Towns its size ↓
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 Morell’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Morell has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 25 km away.
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.
Morell’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Morell runs highest on mischief (13.7 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 | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.3 | 20% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.3 | 34% |
| Breaking and entering | 28.7 | 1.9 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7 | 0.5 | 33% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 17.7 | 1.2 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 82.3 | 5.5 | 12% |
| Mischief | 204 | 13.7 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 64 | 4.3 | 53% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.3 | 1 | 11% |
| Drug violations | 12.3 | 0.8 | 22% |
| Impaired driving | 71 | 4.8 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Morell’s index climbed 19%
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (71.4) and 2024 least (53.7). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Morell | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 59.8 | 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 Morell, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 220 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Morell (16,600 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.
Add about 420 property crimes and 250 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Morell
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morell | 1,422 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| East River, Part 1 (16 km) | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Vernon River (22 km) | 2,779 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| North Shore (25 km) | 1,609 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| North Shore (26 km) | 2,994 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Three Rivers (26 km) | 9,322 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
The places around Morell all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, East River, Part 1 (15.8 km away), scores 46.6 against 61.6. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Morell with figures are 16–26 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Morell
Is Morell safe?
The short answer is an index of 61.6 for Morell (2023–2025), built from 14.4 violent incidents and 28 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Morell?
Top of the list is mischief (13.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 9.3, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 6, follow.
Is crime going up in Morell?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 19%, to 71.4 from 59.8.
How much of Morell’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 31% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 51% of violent and 19% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Morell and everywhere else it polices.
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).