Photo: Ferdilouw · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Keremeos than in 84% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 144 for violence and 102.1 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). The grade is C−, built on crime the police covering Keremeos reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, the yearly rates were 33.9 violent incidents and 39.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. By 2025 the index had dropped to 108, down from 120 in 2023.
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 South Okanagan/Oliver detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Keremeos
Assault: high for a town its size
Keremeos records 20.4 incidents of assault per 1,000 residents a year, against 6.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
Keremeos’s index of 113.4 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.
What’s behind Keremeos’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 20 km from Keremeos, not to the town.
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.
What police record in Keremeos, by type
Against the typical town its size, Keremeos runs highest on assault (20.4 per 1,000 against 6.7), motor vehicle theft (7.1 per 1,000 against 2.4) and mischief (9.9 per 1,000 against 4.2). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 24 | 4.4 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 29 | 5.4 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 2.3 | 35% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 38.3 | 7.1 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49.3 | 9.1 | 3% |
| Mischief | 53.3 | 9.9 | 16% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 12.3 | 2.3 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.3 | 1.9 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 9.7 | 1.8 | 41% |
| Impaired driving | 12.3 | 2.3 | 59% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
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 180 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Keremeos (5,210 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 220 property crimes, plus 99 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Keremeos, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 120, against a low of 108 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Keremeos | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 112.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 120 | 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 Keremeos, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Keremeos
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keremeos | 1,779 | 113.4 | 144 | C− |
| Electoral Area B, Okanagan-Similkameen | 1,190 | 113.4 | 144 | C− |
| Electoral Area G, Okanagan-Similkameen | 2,402 | 113.4 | 144 | C− |
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Keremeos
Is Keremeos safe?
Keremeos scores 113.4 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 33.9 violent incidents and 39.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Keremeos?
Police record assault most, 20.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (10.7) and mischief (9.9).
Is crime going up in Keremeos?
It went down 10% between 2023 and 2025, from 120 to 108.
How much of Keremeos’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 36%: 70% for violent crime and 16% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Keremeos 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).