Photo: (WT-shared) Kazbar at wts wikivoyage · Public domainCache Creek records more crime per resident than 89% of Canadian towns
Annual rates stand at 29.2 violent incidents and 47.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Safety Grade is D, on crime the police covering Cache Creek reported from 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 113.5 and other offences to 145.4, 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Ashcroft detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Cache Creek
Mischief: high for a town its size
Cache Creek records 10.9 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 ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
The typical British Columbia town scores 83.2; Cache Creek, 135.5. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Cache Creek scores 113.5 for violence and 145.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
A low clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 21% for Cache Creek (45% violent, 14% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Cache Creek’s D for safety
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 9 km from Cache Creek, since none reports under the town’s name.
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 Cache Creek, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Cache Creek runs highest on mischief (10.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (15.3 per 1,000 against 6.7) and break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.3 | 5.2 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.3 | 0.9 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.7 | 4 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 67.7 | 17.3 | 7% |
| Mischief | 42.7 | 10.9 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 1.3 | 46% |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.3 | 5 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 1.7 | 40% |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 1.9 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 21.7 | 5.5 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
The detachment nearest Cache Creek, 3,970 residents: around 110 violent incidents a year, 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 180 property crimes and 110 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Cache Creek’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 153.6, and 2025 the lightest at 106.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cache Creek | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 106.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 146.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 153.6 | 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 Cache Creek, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Cache Creek
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Creek | 1,053 | 135.5 | 113.5 | D |
| Ashcroft (9 km) | 1,744 | 135.5 | 113.5 | D |
| Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-Nicola (23 km) | 1,189 | 135.5 | 113.5 | D |
| Lillooet (46 km) | 2,065 | 130 | 120.5 | D |
| Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-Nicola (48 km) | 1,958 | 85.2 | 139.9 | C |
Cache Creek has the highest index of the places around it. Just 45.5 km away, Lillooet comes to 130, against 135.5. 2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Cache Creek has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–48 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Read with care. The police behind these figures serve about 3,968 people, so a handful of incidents moves every rate. Statistics Canada’s note: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Cache Creek
Is Cache Creek safe?
With 29.2 violent incidents and 47.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Cache Creek comes to 135.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Cache Creek?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (17.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 17.2, and assault, at 15.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Cache Creek?
The reverse: 153.6 in 2023 came down to 106.2 by 2025, 31% lower. A small or partial count makes this change uncertain.
How much of Cache Creek’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 45% of violent crime and 14% of everything else, 21% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Cache Creek and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).