Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap records more crime than two in three Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 80, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5. What’s more, the grade is C, built on crime the police covering Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap reported from 2023 to 2025: #115 of 251 in British Columbia. Police cleared 22% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size. The yearly rates were 16.7 violent incidents and 29.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Chase detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
About 55% of Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Down since 2023
From 115.2 in 2023 to 65 in 2025: that is Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap records 9.9 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 ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap stands 28th, the lowest first. 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 F, Columbia-Shuswap’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 27 km off, which covers its own area rather than Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap.
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: #115 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,630 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 Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap, down 44% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 115.2, against a low of 60 in 2024. 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 F, Columbia-Shuswap | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 60 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 115.2 | 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 F, Columbia-Shuswap, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap runs highest on mischief (9.9 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.6). Fraud 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 | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24.3 | 2.4 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13.3 | 1.3 | 32% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 36.3 | 3.6 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.8 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 64.7 | 6.4 | 4% |
| Mischief | 100 | 9.9 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 2.3 | 54% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 5.3 | 0.5 | 32% |
| Impaired driving | 27 | 2.7 | 63% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap places 28th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Quebec | 3,400 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Electoral Area B, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,415 | 61.3 | 74.1 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Electoral Area D (Rural Grand Forks), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,570 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 25 | Melancthon Ontario | 3,581 | 68.8 | 125.9 | B− |
| 26 | Placentia Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,374 | 79.6 | 65.6 | C |
| 27 | Electoral Area L (Grasslands), Thompson-Nicola British Columbia | 3,543 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| 28 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,475 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| 29 | Carman Manitoba | 3,547 | 81.4 | 113 | C |
| 30 | Sables-Spanish Rivers Ontario | 3,412 | 81.9 | 109 | C |
| 31 | Morris Manitoba | 3,550 | 85.4 | 94.1 | C |
| 32 | Electoral Area E (West Boundary), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,361 | 89.9 | 103.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Mackenzie British Columbia | 3,442 | 157.5 | 248.1 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Buckland No. 491 Saskatchewan | 3,550 | 332.1 | 425.8 | 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 F, Columbia-Shuswap in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 170 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap (10,100 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.
And about 290 property crimes, plus 160 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 F, Columbia-Shuswap
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap | 3,475 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| Blind Bay (11 km) | 9,984 | 40.8 | 37.4 | A− |
| Salmon Arm (28 km) | 20,891 | 92.4 | 66.8 | C |
| Chase (29 km) | 2,591 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| Sicamous (29 km) | 2,854 | 145.9 | 184.8 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap. Blind Bay, 11 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 40.8 to 80. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 11–29 km from Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap
Is Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap comes to 80. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 16.7 violent incidents and 29 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 10.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (9.9) and assault (7.5).
Is crime going up in Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap?
No: the index fell 44%, from 115.2 in 2023 to 65 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 22% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 42% of violent and 14% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Electoral Area F, 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).