Photo: Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0For recorded crime, Deer Lake sits in the middle of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 70.5 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. On top of that, its police logs show 10.9 violent incidents and 35.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ the numbers are 10.8 and 25.1. All told, Deer Lake grades C+ for safety (#83 of 251 in British Columbia): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In 2023 the index stood at 74.2; it fell to 68.7 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 Burnaby service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Deer Lake
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Deer Lake ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 27% of violent crime and 11% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 38%. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 64.6 on Deer Lake’s index against 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+; non-violent crime, 73.4 against 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.
What’s behind Deer Lake’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Deer Lake alone.
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.
Burnaby’s crime, type by type
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). Drug offences 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.
Deer Lake, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 74.2, and its lowest 2024, 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 | Deer Lake | 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 Deer Lake, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Deer Lake
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Lake | 8,417 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Holdom | 7,976 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Garden Village | 6,492 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Brentwood | 22,170 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Broadview | 8,008 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Bainbridge | 3,015 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Buckingham Heights | 8,794 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
Its police also cover 6 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Deer Lake carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in Deer Lake
Is Deer Lake safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Deer Lake scores 70.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 10.9 violent and 35.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Deer Lake?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (21.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10.9, and assault, at 5.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Deer Lake?
The reverse: 74.2 in 2023 came down to 68.7 by 2025, 7% lower.
How much of Deer Lake’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 15% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 27% of violent and 11% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).