Photo: ChrisStubbs · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime in Lougheed sits close to 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+. Police counts work out at 10.9 violent incidents and 35.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1. What’s more, 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. By 2025 the index had dropped to 68.7, down from 74.2 in 2023.
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. Area-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the Burnaby service area.
What stands out about safety in Lougheed
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Lougheed 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 Lougheed’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 Lougheed’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Lougheed itself compares.
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). 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.
Lougheed, 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 | Lougheed | 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 Lougheed, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Lougheed
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lougheed | 15,442 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Lake City | 3,240 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Burnaby Mountain | 9,248 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| East Burnaby | 17,233 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Bainbridge | 3,015 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| Montecito | 10,734 | 70.5 | 64.6 | C+ |
| New Westminster | 92,124 | 87.9 | 94.6 | C |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
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. 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. The figures for Lougheed are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
Questions about safety in Lougheed
Is Lougheed safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Lougheed 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. The middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Lougheed?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 21.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (10.9) and assault (5.2).
Is crime going up in Lougheed?
It went down 7% between 2023 and 2025, from 74.2 to 68.7.
How much of Lougheed’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 15%: 27% for violent crime and 11% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it 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).