Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Kamloops 1 records more crime than 75% of Canadian towns
On crime the police covering Kamloops 1 reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C for safety. What’s more, its Crime Severity Index averaged 93.1 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Per 1,000 residents a year, 15.4 violent incidents and 37.1 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the T'Kumlups detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Kamloops 1
Less severe than in 2023
Kamloops 1’s index went from 115 in 2023 to 74.8 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Kamloops 1 records 6.3 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Kamloops 1’s police clear 17%, 27% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like British Columbia’s towns
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Kamloops 1 scores 93.1. 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.
Kamloops 1: C for safety, and why
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 to 10,000 people.
Year by year in Kamloops 1: down 35%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (115); 2025 was the lightest, at 74.8. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kamloops 1 | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74.8 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 89.4 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 115 | 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 Kamloops 1, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Kamloops 1, by type
Against the typical town its size, Kamloops 1 runs highest on break and enter (6.3 per 1,000 against 2.8), mischief (9.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and motor vehicle theft (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.6). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 78.3 | 6.3 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 19 | 1.5 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 64.7 | 5.2 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 14 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 93.7 | 7.5 | 5% |
| Mischief | 120 | 9.6 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.5 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 20.3 | 1.6 | 51% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 13.3 | 1.1 | 35% |
| Drug violations | 16 | 1.3 | 38% |
| Impaired driving | 20.3 | 1.6 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3 | 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.
12,500 residents, about 190 violent incidents a year: the police area Kamloops 1 belongs to, 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 460 property crimes, plus 180 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 Kamloops 1
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamloops 1 | 4,362 | 93.1 | 97 | C |
| Kamloops (5 km) | 108,793 | 148.2 | 134.8 | D |
| Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola (20 km) | 4,540 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-Nicola (26 km) | 1,958 | 85.2 | 139.9 | C |
Of 3 places nearby with their own figures, 2 come in under Kamloops 1. Closest is Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola, 19.7 km away, at 80 to 93.1 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 5–26 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Kamloops 1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Kamloops 1 is one part.
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Kamloops 1
Is Kamloops 1 safe?
Police-reported crime in Kamloops 1 scores 93.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 15.4 violent incidents and 37.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the median is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Kamloops 1?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 9.6, other Criminal Code offences at 9.5 and theft under $5,000 at 7.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Kamloops 1?
It went down 35% between 2023 and 2025, from 115 to 74.8.
How much of Kamloops 1’s crime do police solve?
About 17% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 27% of violent and 12% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Kamloops 1 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).