Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley records more crime than 92% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Add to that, its 3 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Out of every 1,000 residents, 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 219.2 and other offences to 143.8, beside norms of 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. Measured across the Chilliwack detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area E, 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 ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley moved from 230.3 to 125.4, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
The typical British Columbia town scores 83.2; Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley, 164.4. 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 E, Fraser Valley’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 9 km away.
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.
Year by year in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley: down 46%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (230.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 125.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area E, 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 E, Fraser Valley, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area E, 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.
The detachment closest to Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley, 7,450 residents, recorded about 220 violent incidents a year, 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 E, Fraser Valley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley | 1,748 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Tzeachten 13 | 4,899 | — | — | — |
| Skowkale | 1,114 | — | — | — |
| Chilliwack | 105,520 | 142.2 | 158.4 | D |
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Cultus Lake | 2,773 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| Kent | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley has the highest index of the places around it. Just 11.2 km away, Chilliwack comes to 142.2, against 164.4. Same police, same number: one neighbour drops out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. 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 E, Fraser Valley
Is Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley safe?
Electoral Area E, 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 E, Fraser Valley?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 36.1 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (25.3) and mischief (14.1).
Is crime going up in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley?
It went down 46% between 2023 and 2025, from 230.3 to 125.4.
How much of Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 27% of crime (45% of violent crime, 16% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley 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).