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Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 70.5 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Its Safety Grade, C+ (#83 of 251 in British Columbia), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 74.2 to 68.7. Each year brought 10.9 violent incidents and 35.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+).
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. Not measured by town: crime severity and crime rate (the Burnaby service area).
What stands out about safety in Burnaby Mountain
Below-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 15% for Burnaby Mountain (27% violent, 11% non-violent), beside 38% for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Burnaby Mountain scores 64.6 for violence and 73.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 75.2 and 54.2. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The C+ for Burnaby Mountain, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Burnaby Mountain’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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.
Its place: #83 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,398 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Burnaby’s figures
These are Burnaby’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Burnaby runs highest on theft under $5,000 (21.3 per 1,000 against 11.5), break and enter (2.8 per 1,000 against 2.2) and mischief (4.7 per 1,000 against 3.8). Sexual assault and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 70.7 | 0.2 | 24% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 33.3 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 12 | 0.04 | 39% |
| Robbery | 121.7 | 0.4 | 24% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 15 | 0.05 | 73% |
| Other violent violations | 31.3 | 0.1 | 22% |
| Breaking and entering | 805 | 2.8 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 49.3 | 0.2 | 33% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 291.7 | 1 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 275.3 | 0.9 | 7% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 6,244.7 | 21.3 | 10% |
| Mischief | 1,370.7 | 4.7 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 146.3 | 0.5 | 40% |
| Administration of justice violations | 323 | 1.1 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 183.7 | 0.6 | 28% |
| Drug violations | 209.7 | 0.7 | 46% |
| Impaired driving | 267.7 | 0.9 | 77% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 214.3 | 0.7 | 12% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Burnaby Mountain, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 74.2, and 2024 the lightest at 68.5. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Burnaby Mountain | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.7 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 68.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 74.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Burnaby Mountain, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Burnaby Mountain
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnaby Mountain | 9,248 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Lougheed | 15,442 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Montecito | 10,734 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Lake City | 3,240 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Bainbridge | 3,015 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Lochdale | 7,463 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Port Moody | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
5 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. The figures for Burnaby Mountain are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
Questions about safety in Burnaby Mountain
Is Burnaby Mountain safe?
Burnaby Mountain’s Crime Severity Index is 70.5 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 10.9 violent incidents and 35.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Burnaby Mountain?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 21.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 10.9 and assault at 5.2.
Is crime going up in Burnaby Mountain?
It went down 7% between 2023 and 2025, from 74.2 to 68.7.
How much of Burnaby Mountain’s crime do police solve?
About 15% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 27% of violent and 11% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
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).