Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainElectoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot records less crime per resident than 71% of Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 41%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violence and property crime split as 14.2 violent incidents and 19.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B+ for safety. Of the two halves, violence comes to 69.1 and other offences to 40.9, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Port Alberni detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot
More people here than live here
Seasonal homes make up about 30% of Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Lower than most of British Columbia
Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot’s index of 48.6 compares with 83.2 for the typical town in British Columbia. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot records 7.3 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 ↓
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 Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 10 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.
Crime in Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.2). Fraud 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 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 10 | 1.1 | 33% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10.3 | 1.2 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.3 | 0.6 | 19% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 46.3 | 5.2 | 5% |
| Mischief | 64.7 | 7.3 | 24% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 50.3 | 5.7 | 69% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 0.7 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 27.3 | 3.1 | 72% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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 130 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot (8,840 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 170 property crimes and 130 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (50.9); 2024 was the lightest, at 45.8. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.9 | 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 Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot | 1,875 | 48.6 | 69.1 | B+ |
| Electoral Area E, Alberni-Clayoquot | 3,069 | 48.6 | 69.1 | B+ |
| Port Alberni | 19,671 | 200.1 | 248.2 | D |
| Electoral Area F, Alberni-Clayoquot | 2,141 | 48.6 | 69.1 | B+ |
Sharing its police with 2 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot
Is Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot safe?
Its police recorded 14.2 violent incidents and 19.4 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot a Crime Severity Index of 48.6. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 9.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 7.3 and assault at 6.7.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 50.9 to 49.2.
How much of Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 41%: 58% for violent crime and 30% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot 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).