Photo: Alasdair McLellan · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Cobble Hill records less crime than 68% of Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is B+, on crime the police covering Cobble Hill reported from 2023 to 2025: #36 of 251 in British Columbia. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 49.9 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. Year on year, 11.4 violent incidents and 17.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Police clear 24% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Shawnigan Lake detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Cobble Hill
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Cobble Hill moved from 59.8 to 38, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lighter than British Columbia’s middle
Cobble Hill’s index of 49.9 compares with 83.2 for the typical town in British Columbia. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Cobble Hill places 7th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Cobble Hill records 7.6 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. 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 Cobble Hill’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Cobble Hill has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 6 km away.
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: #36 of 251 in British Columbia and #534 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Cobble Hill, down 36% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (59.8); the low point came in 2025, at 38. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Cobble Hill | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 51.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 59.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Cobble Hill, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Cobble Hill’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Cobble Hill runs highest on mischief (7.6 per 1,000 against 4.9). Motor vehicle theft 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 | 9 | 0.4 | 30% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18.3 | 0.9 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24 | 1.2 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 63.7 | 3.1 | 17% |
| Mischief | 154.7 | 7.6 | 25% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.2 | 66% |
| Administration of justice violations | 35 | 1.7 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.7 | 33% |
| Drug violations | 10.7 | 0.5 | 28% |
| Impaired driving | 94 | 4.6 | 61% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.07 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Cobble Hill stands 7th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Bruce Peninsula Ontario | 5,018 | 29.3 | 46.7 | A+ |
| 2 | Electoral Area B, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 5,243 | 36.8 | 46.9 | A |
| 3 | Metchosin British Columbia | 5,207 | 40.7 | 41.3 | A− |
| 4 | Centre Hastings Ontario | 5,170 | 46.8 | 68 | B+ |
| 5 | Cumberland British Columbia | 4,974 | 49.5 | 61.5 | B+ |
| 6 | Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley British Columbia | 5,156 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| 7 | Cobble Hill British Columbia | 5,074 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| 8 | Electoral Area F, Cariboo British Columbia | 5,016 | 51.7 | 55.1 | B+ |
| 9 | Edenwold No. 158 Saskatchewan | 4,932 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 10 | Morin-Heights Quebec | 5,086 | 53.5 | 71.6 | B |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Electoral Area C, North Okanagan British Columbia | 5,029 | 61.3 | 74.1 | B− |
| 20 | Electoral Area F, North Okanagan British Columbia | 4,969 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Nipawin Saskatchewan | 5,033 | 182.3 | 163.9 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Cobble Hill in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Cobble Hill, 20,300 residents, recorded about 230 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.
And about 350 property crimes, plus 300 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Cobble Hill
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobble Hill | 5,074 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| Cowichan Bay | 3,713 | 131.7 | 149.7 | D |
| Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley | 5,156 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| Shawnigan | 9,903 | 49.9 | 52.5 | B+ |
| North Saanich | 12,986 | 37.5 | 32.9 | A |
| Cowichan | 2,509 | — | — | — |
| Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley | 4,482 | 131.7 | 149.7 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Cobble Hill. Just 11.1 km away, North Saanich comes to 37.5, against 49.9. The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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 Cobble Hill
Is Cobble Hill safe?
Cobble Hill scores 49.9 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 11.4 violent incidents and 17.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Cobble Hill?
Most often it is mischief: 7.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 6.3 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Cobble Hill?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 36%, to 38 from 59.8.
How much of Cobble Hill’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 38% of violent crime and 18% of everything else, 24% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Cobble Hill and everywhere else it polices.
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).