Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Crime in Enderby sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Across all the graded crimes, Enderby lands on B− (#62 of 251 in British Columbia): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 62.6, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5. Year on year, 15.3 violent incidents and 22.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Measured across the Enderby detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Enderby
Less severe than in 2023
Enderby’s index went from 82.9 in 2023 to 49.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Lower than most of British Columbia
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 62.6 in Enderby. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Enderby stands 15th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Police clear less here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 24% for Enderby (46% violent, 14% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
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 Enderby’s grade
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: #62 of 251 in British Columbia and #942 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, Enderby’s index dropped 40%
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (82.9); 2025 was the lightest, at 49.4. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Enderby | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 55.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 82.9 | 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 Enderby, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Enderby, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Enderby runs highest on mischief (5.9 per 1,000 against 4.9). Break and enter 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 | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18 | 2.1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24 | 2.8 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51.7 | 6 | 6% |
| Mischief | 51 | 5.9 | 11% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.7 | 2.3 | 52% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 11 | 1.3 | 25% |
| Drug violations | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 13 | 1.5 | 77% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.2 | — |
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.
Enderby is 15th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 12 | Pilot Butte Saskatchewan | 3,255 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 13 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska Quebec | 3,307 | 55 | 86.5 | B |
| 14 | Adstock Quebec | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| 15 | Enderby British Columbia | 3,292 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| 16 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 3,198 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 17 | Channel-Port aux Basques Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,379 | 66.8 | 62.8 | B− |
| 18 | Inverness County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 3,314 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 3,256 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Electoral Area E (West Boundary), Kootenay Boundary British Columbia | 3,361 | 89.9 | 103.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Central Okanagan West British Columbia | 3,298 | 106.7 | 102.5 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Inuvik Northwest Territories | 3,337 | 718.3 | 807.9 | 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 Enderby in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 130 violent incidents a year across the police area of 8,740 residents that includes Enderby, 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 200 a year and other violations 95 (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 Enderby
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enderby | 3,292 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area F, North Okanagan | 4,969 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| Armstrong | 5,643 | 73.6 | 83.6 | C+ |
| Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap | 4,829 | 45 | 53.2 | A− |
| Spallumcheen | 5,843 | 51.3 | 59.9 | B+ |
| Salmon Arm | 20,891 | 92.4 | 66.8 | C |
2 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Enderby. Closest is Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap, 14.9 km away, at 45 to 62.6 here. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared with the countryside. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Enderby’s are shared with its surroundings.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. 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 Enderby
Is Enderby safe?
Police-reported crime in Enderby scores 62.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 15.3 violent incidents and 22.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Enderby?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 8.3, assault at 7 and theft under $5,000 at 6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Enderby?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 40%, to 49.4 from 82.9.
How much of Enderby’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 24% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 46% of violent and 14% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Enderby 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).