Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor recorded crime, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Police clear 24% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%. By contrast, recorded violent incidents ran at 10.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 23.8, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Overall, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap grades B− for safety (#69 of 251 in British Columbia): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. A Crime Severity Index of 65.5, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Golden/Field detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap moved from 74.5 to 44.9, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Violent crime scores 44.5 on Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s index against 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size; non-violent crime, 74.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap stands 15th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than British Columbia’s middle
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 65.5 in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap. 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.
The B− for Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, and how it is built
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: #69 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,018 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s index dropped 40%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (77.1) and 2025 the trough (44.9). The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 77.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 74.5 | 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s figures
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 | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 16.7 | 2.1 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.7 | 1.2 | 55% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 1.8 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 1.1 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 60.7 | 7.5 | 8% |
| Mischief | 40 | 5 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.7 | 2.2 | 69% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 0.9 | 55% |
| Drug violations | 6 | 0.7 | 67% |
| Impaired driving | 17 | 2.1 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is 15th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Powassan Ontario | 3,657 | 15 | 22.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 9 | Pemberton British Columbia | 3,620 | 53 | 61.7 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez Quebec | 3,639 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 13 | Beausejour Manitoba | 3,565 | 58.8 | 39.1 | B |
| 14 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo British Columbia | 3,733 | 58.9 | 58.4 | B− |
| 15 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,672 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| 16 | Cartier Manitoba | 3,739 | 67 | 72.1 | B− |
| 17 | Electoral Area A, Fraser-Fort George British Columbia | 3,764 | 67.3 | 98.3 | B− |
| 18 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,570 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Roberts Creek British Columbia | 3,779 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Lake Cowichan British Columbia | 3,757 | 94.9 | 158.7 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Electoral Area F, Bulkley-Nechako British Columbia | 3,643 | 126.5 | 178.5 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 Alberta | 3,592 | 495.1 | 602.4 | 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
8,110 residents, about 81 violent incidents a year: the police area Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap belongs to, 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 190 property crimes, plus 100 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap | 3,672 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| Golden (5 km) | 4,433 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| Electoral Area G, East Kootenay (86 km) | 1,952 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| Revelstoke (89 km) | 9,464 | 75.8 | 69 | C+ |
| Radium Hot Springs (95 km) | 1,489 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| Banff (99 km) | 11,402 | 63 | 74.8 | B− |
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap sits above 1 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 99.2 km away, Banff comes to 63, against 65.5. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 5–99 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is one part.
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
Is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap safe?
Statistics Canada puts Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap at 65.5 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10 and property crimes at 23.8 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 7.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (7.5) and mischief (5).
Is crime going up in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 40%, to 44.9 from 74.5.
How much of Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s crime do police solve?
About 24% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 54% of violent and 16% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap 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).