Photo: Trougnouf · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Electoral Area C, Cariboo records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 15.3 violent incidents and 25.0 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 76.4 and its non-violent half to 58.6, where the norm is 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 Quesnel detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area C, Cariboo
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area C, Cariboo records 11.6 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 ↓
Lighter than British Columbia’s middle
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Electoral Area C, Cariboo scores 63.3. Towns its size ↓
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 C, Cariboo’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 11 km from Electoral Area C, Cariboo, not to the town.
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.
Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area C, Cariboo runs highest on mischief (11.6 per 1,000 against 4.2). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.10 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 29 | 2.1 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 15.3 | 1.1 | 20% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 22.7 | 1.7 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 10 | 0.7 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 54 | 4 | 9% |
| Mischief | 156.3 | 11.6 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 8 | 0.6 | 59% |
| Administration of justice violations | 43.3 | 3.2 | 49% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.3 | 1.4 | 45% |
| Drug violations | 11.3 | 0.8 | 27% |
| Impaired driving | 33.7 | 2.5 | 66% |
| 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 64.2; the lightest was 2025, at 62.8. 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 | Electoral Area C, Cariboo | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 63 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 64.2 | 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 C, Cariboo, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Electoral Area C, Cariboo, 13,500 residents: around 210 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 340 property crimes and 160 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Electoral Area C, Cariboo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, Cariboo | 1,289 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| Quesnel | 10,253 | 275.7 | 243.5 | D |
| Electoral Area A, Cariboo | 6,172 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| Electoral Area B, Cariboo | 4,169 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area C, Cariboo
Is Electoral Area C, Cariboo safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Electoral Area C, Cariboo comes to 63.3. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 15.3 violent incidents and 25 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area C, Cariboo?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 11.6, other Criminal Code offences at 7 and assault at 6.3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area C, Cariboo?
Barely: 64.2 in 2023, 62.8 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 35% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 56% of violent crime and 25% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Electoral Area C, Cariboo 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).