Photo: Straitgate · CC BY-SA 3.0Harrison Hot Springs sees more crime per resident than 92% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 219.2 and its non-violent half to 143.8, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Counting crime the police covering Harrison Hot Springs reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. On top of that, in a usual year, 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. For solved cases, the weighted rate is 27%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%.
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 for the Chilliwack detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Harrison Hot Springs
Mischief: high for a town its size
Harrison Hot Springs 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 ↓
Easing since 2023
Harrison Hot Springs’s index went from 230.3 in 2023 to 125.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
Harrison Hot Springs’s index of 164.4 compares with 83.2 for the typical town in British Columbia. 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.
Inside Harrison Hot Springs’s D for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 21 km off, which covers its own area rather than Harrison Hot Springs.
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.
Harrison Hot Springs’s index fell 46% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 230.3; the lightest was 2025, at 125.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Harrison Hot Springs | 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 Harrison Hot Springs, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Harrison Hot Springs’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Harrison Hot Springs 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.
About 220 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Harrison Hot Springs (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.
Property crime adds about 470 a year and other violations 350 (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 Harrison Hot Springs
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Hot Springs | 2,148 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Kent | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley | 1,155 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
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
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Harrison Hot Springs
Is Harrison Hot Springs safe?
Its police recorded 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Harrison Hot Springs a Crime Severity Index of 164.4. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Harrison Hot Springs?
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 Harrison Hot Springs?
Down 46%: 230.3 in 2023, 125.4 in 2025.
How much of Harrison Hot Springs’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 27% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 45% of violent and 16% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Harrison Hot Springs and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).