Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay records less crime than nine in ten Canadian towns
Measured on crime the police covering Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A. Split in two, the index gives 46.9 for violence and 33.1 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Year on year, 9.7 violent incidents and 13.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Creston detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay
Under the British Columbia norm
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 36.8 in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay. Towns its size ↓
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay stood at 36.1, by 2025 at 29.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A low clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 24% for Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay (41% 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 Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay’s A for safety
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 6 km from Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay, 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 Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9.3 | 1 | 3% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 8 | 0.8 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 28.7 | 3 | 14% |
| Mischief | 40.7 | 4.3 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 9.3 | 1 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.8 | 18% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 10.7 | 1.1 | 56% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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.
Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay’s index fell 19% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 45.4; 2025 was the lightest, at 29.1. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 45.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 36.1 | 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, Central Kootenay, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 92 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay (9,690 residents), 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.
Property crime adds about 130 a year and other violations 71 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay | 1,672 | 36.8 | 46.9 | A |
| Creston | 5,976 | 111.2 | 103.1 | C− |
| Electoral Area B, Central Kootenay | 5,243 | 36.8 | 46.9 | A |
One place nearby is 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
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay
Is Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay safe?
Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay scores 36.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.7 violent incidents and 13.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 4.3, other Criminal Code offences at 4.2 and fraud at 3.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay?
Down 19%: 36.1 in 2023, 29.1 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 41% of violent crime and 14% of everything else, 24% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).