Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Souris is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Of the two halves, violence comes to 68.2 and other offences to 59.1, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. The yearly rates were 13.8 violent incidents and 30.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Souris grades B− for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 62.9 to 60.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Souris detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Souris
Mischief: high for a town its size
Souris records 15.4 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 ↓
Above Prince Edward Island’s typical town
Set among Prince Edward Island’s towns, whose median is 46.7, Souris scores 61.3. 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 Souris’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.
Souris’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Souris runs highest on mischief (15.4 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.1 per 1,000 against 2.5). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 27 | 3.1 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10.3 | 1.2 | 22% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 42.3 | 4.9 | 16% |
| Mischief | 133.7 | 15.4 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 36 | 4.2 | 47% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 37.7 | 4.4 | 40% |
| 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.
Souris, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 62.9 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 60 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Souris | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 61.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 62.9 | 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 Souris, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 120 violent incidents a year in the 8,770-resident police area around Souris, 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.
Property crime adds about 260 a year and other violations 130 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Souris
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Souris | 1,981 | 61.3 | 68.2 | B− |
| Souris (10 km) | 1,285 | 61.3 | 68.2 | B− |
| Morell (30 km) | 1,422 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| Three Rivers (31 km) | 9,322 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| Murray River, Part 1 (43 km) | 1,638 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| East River, Part 1 (44 km) | 2,657 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
Nearby, 1 of 4 places with their own figures have a lower index than Souris. Just 44.1 km away, East River, Part 1 comes to 46.6, against 61.3. One place nearby is policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Souris with figures are 10–44 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Souris is one part.
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Souris
Is Souris safe?
Souris scores 61.3 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 13.8 violent incidents and 30.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Souris?
Mischief is the most common, at 15.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (9.4) and assault (5.3).
Is crime going up in Souris?
Not much: the index went from 62.9 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
How much of Souris’s crime do police solve?
About 31% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 55% of violent and 20% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Souris and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).