Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley than in 92% of Canadian towns
Recorded violent incidents ran at 30.5 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 63.8, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Police cleared 27% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, its letter for safety is D, worked out from crime the police covering Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley reported over 2023 to 2025. Split in two, the index gives 219.2 for violence and 143.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Chilliwack detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley
A busy place, counted per resident
About 39% of Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley’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 ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley records 14.1 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Down since 2023
In 2023 the index in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley stood at 230.3, by 2025 at 125.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above British Columbia’s typical town
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 164.4 in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley. 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 sits behind Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley’s D
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 13 km off, which covers its own area rather than Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley’s index fell 46% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 230.3, against a low of 125.4 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 137.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 230.3 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley runs highest on mischief (14.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (6 per 1,000 against 2.5) and fraud (11 per 1,000 against 5.1).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7 | 1 | 24% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.9 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 6 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 1.5 | 18% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 3.2 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 1.6 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 184.7 | 25.3 | 10% |
| Mischief | 103 | 14.1 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 1.2 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 30.3 | 4.1 | 68% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22 | 3 | 24% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 2 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 5.4 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.8 | 22% |
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 people or more.
Around 220 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley (7,450 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 470 property crimes, plus 350 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 C, Fraser Valley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley | 1,155 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Chilliwack | 105,520 | 142.2 | 158.4 | D |
| Skowkale | 1,114 | — | — | — |
| Harrison Hot Springs | 2,148 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Kent | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
| Tzeachten 13 | 4,899 | — | — | — |
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
The places around Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Chilliwack (13.3 km away), scores 142.2 against 164.4. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley
Is Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley safe?
Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley scores 164.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 36.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 25.3 and mischief at 14.1.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley?
No: the index fell 46%, from 230.3 in 2023 to 125.4 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 27%: 45% for violent crime and 16% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley 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).