ManitobaThe volume and severity of police-reported crime in Manitoba decreased nearly four per cent in 2024 from the previous year, with a slightly larger drop specifically in Winnipeg, according to Statistics Canada.But homicide rates continue to climb, despite falling nationallyCBC News · Posted: Jul 22, 2025 2:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoManitoba’s homicide rate increased between 2023 and 2024 by 25 per cent, while it fell nationally, according to the latest crime severity index report from Statistics Canada. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)The volume and severity of police-reported crime in Manitoba decreased nearly four per cent in 2024 from the previous year, with a slightly larger drop specifically in Winnipeg, according to Statistics Canada.The agency released its annual crime severity index Tuesday, which measures changes in the level of all Criminal Code violations from year to year, including both violent (assaults, homicides and robberies) and non-violent crimes (property and drug offences).The overall change in Manitoba (-3.75 per cent) and Winnipeg (-4.28 per cent) is on par with that of Canada as a whole (-4.08 per cent).However, the changes nationally for violent and non-violent crimes were quite different.Nationally, the change was driven by a large drop in non-violent crime of six per cent, whereas the agency said violent crime decreased just one per cent.In Manitoba, there was a decline of five per cent for non-violent crime and 2.25 per cent for violent crime.But for Winnipeg, the change in violent crimes was actually more significant. It fell by five per cent, while the non-violent index went down four per cent.It was the second consecutive annual drop in the index for Winnipeg, after a dramatic increase of nearly 20 per cent in 2022, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.The homicide rate in Manitoba increased between 2023 and 2024, while it fell nationally. The province saw those numbers go up from 75 to 94, a jump of 19 homicides for a 25 per cent increase.Nationally, the numbers went down by eight (796 to 788) for a nearly four per cent decrease.Youth crime indexIn Manitoba, the index for youth crimes declined nearly 10 per cent, with violent crimes dropping more than 11 per cent and non-violent crimes falling by five per cent.Nationally, the decline was just over three per cent, with violent crimes dropping four per cent and non-violent ones by 1.5 per cent.Those numbers aren’t broken down for Winnipeg.Data for specific crimes such as breaking and entering, child pornography, motor vehicle theft, sexual assault, extortion, robbery, hate crime, attempted murder, aggravated assault and more can be searched through Statistics Canada’s CSI tables.Homicide data is further broken down into spousal, gang-related, gender, Indigenous identity and the methods used.With files from The Canadian Press
Crime severity index dipped in Manitoba last year, StatsCan says
