Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Souris records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Year on year, 13.8 violent incidents and 30.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Weighing it all, Souris earns B− for safety, with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Its violent half comes to 68.2 and its non-violent half to 59.1, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Steady over the three years, the index read 62.9 in 2023 and 60 in 2025.
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 Souris detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
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
Souris’s index of 61.3 compares with 46.7 for the typical town in Prince Edward Island. 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 sits behind Souris’s B−
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). 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
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (62.9); 2025 was the lightest, at 60. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
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+.
The police area Souris is part of, 8,770 residents, recorded about 120 violent incidents a year (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 | 1,285 | 61.3 | 68.2 | B− |
| Souris (10 km) | 1,981 | 61.3 | 68.2 | B− |
| Three Rivers (34 km) | 9,322 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| Morell (39 km) | 1,422 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| Murray River, Part 1 (44 km) | 1,638 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Souris. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
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
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Souris is one part.
Questions about safety in Souris
Is Souris safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Souris scores 61.3 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 13.8 violent and 30.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Souris?
Top of the list is mischief (15.4 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 9.4, and assault, at 5.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Souris?
Hardly at all, from 62.9 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
How much of Souris’s crime do police solve?
31%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 55% and non-violent crime at 20%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Souris 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).