CranbrookBritish Columbia

Violent crime weighs more on Cranbrook than on British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: a violent severity index of 147

Police recorded 28.1 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (12.5) and Canadian towns (12). Thefts, break-ins and damage add up to 63.3 per 1,000 residents a year.

Cranbrook gets a D for cost of living

Area-wide: rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom, counted over the Cranbrook metro area

15% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below British Columbia’s towns (21%) and Canadian towns (18%) alike. The owner-occupied share of households is 74%.

Trips to work from Cranbrook are shorter than from British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 18 min on average

87% of commuters drove, in line with British Columbia’s towns (87%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Cranbrook has warmer summers than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 26.9°C

Between the last spring frost, 18 May, and the first in autumn, 23 September, lie 127 days. A normal year brings 386 mm of precipitation, below both British Columbia’s towns (1,152 mm) and Canadian towns (883 mm). The coldest nights come in January, when Cranbrook averages a low of −10.1°C. Also worth knowing: most of the snow comes in December, about 35 cm.

Cranbrook’s health region reports 57% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%

Shared with the rest of the East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: health survey and life expectancy

The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.5, with women at 82.7 and men at 78.1. Smoking is commoner than in the province: 13% of adults, against 8.9% for British Columbia. The three chronic conditions the survey tracks average 16% of adults, higher than British Columbia’s towns (15%) yet lower than Canadian towns (17%). For Cranbrook itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical.

19% of homes tested in Cranbrook’s area are above the radon guideline

Shaking is about as much of a worry in Cranbrook as in most places, at $0.019 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). The burn rate around Cranbrook is 0.22% a year (8.4% of the land within 25 km since 1986), a moderate band. The national flood inventory has no study of the town. Cranbrook doesn’t get its own radon tests figures; the ones here come from the East Kootenay health region.

The nearest high school to Cranbrook is 0.2 km away

Of the 11 with results, 7 sit in the lower two fifths in British Columbia.

Expect November days around 3°C in Cranbrook, nights around −5°C

About 24 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Precipitation in November averages 35 mm. Then December: −3°C by day, −10°C at night. For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Cranbrook forecast.

Rob Morrison (Conservative Party of Canada) represents Cranbrook in Ottawa as MP for Columbia—Kootenay—Southern Rockies

From British Columbia come 43 MPs, 20 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Cranbrook has one public library, Cranbrook Public Library

Cranbrook Public Library has one location for the 30,076 people it serves.

Jimsmith Lake Park is 3.3 km from Cranbrook

The nearest national park is more than 100 km away. 12 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Parks and reserves take up 2.4% of the ground within 10 km, below British Columbia’s towns (6.7%) and close to Canadian towns (2.3%).

More of Cranbrook’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 9.9%

Nearly one in ten residents came to Canada as immigrants, below British Columbia’s towns (12%) but above Canadian towns (6.4%). Visible minorities make up 6.9% of the population, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (8.6%) and Canadian towns (15%).