Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Kimberley runs lower than in 75% of Canadian towns
That puts it at A− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Kimberley reported from 2023 to 2025: #28 of 251 in British Columbia. The local count comes to 8.9 violent incidents and 21.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Against usual levels of 85.7 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 44.5 and 46.8.
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.
What stands out about safety in Kimberley
Lower than most of British Columbia
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Kimberley scores 45.9. Towns its size ↓
Easing since 2023
Kimberley’s index went from 55.7 in 2023 to 43.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Below-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 20% for Kimberley (30% violent, 16% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Kimberley is 17th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. 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 Kimberley’s A− for safety
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.
Its place: #28 of 251 in British Columbia and #432 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Kimberley’s index fell 22% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (55.7); the low point came in 2024, at 38.7. 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 | Kimberley | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 38.7 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 55.7 | 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 Kimberley, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Kimberley, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Kimberley runs highest on mischief (7.2 per 1,000 against 4.9). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13.7 | 1.5 | 29% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10.3 | 1.2 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 54.7 | 6.1 | 20% |
| Mischief | 64 | 7.2 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 14 | 1.6 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 19.3 | 2.2 | 71% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
About 79 violent incidents a year reached Kimberley’s police, 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 190 property crimes, plus 73 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Among 40 towns its size, Kimberley places 17th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tavistock Ontario | 8,710 | 23.1 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Coaticook Quebec | 9,027 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| 15 | Electoral Area F, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,810 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| 16 | Vankleek Hill Ontario | 9,321 | 44.6 | 56.6 | A− |
| 17 | Kimberley British Columbia | 9,037 | 45.9 | 44.5 | A− |
| 18 | St. Adolphe Manitoba | 8,770 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| 19 | Nicolet Quebec | 8,737 | 56.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 20 | Three Rivers Prince Edward Island | 9,322 | 61.6 | 82.1 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Revelstoke British Columbia | 9,464 | 75.8 | 69 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Castlegar British Columbia | 9,465 | 107.5 | 94.1 | C− |
| 33 | Trail British Columbia | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Iqaluit Nunavut | 8,612 | 661.3 | 844 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Kimberley in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Kimberley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberley | 9,037 | 45.9 | 44.5 | A− |
| Electoral Area E, East Kootenay (19 km) | 1,881 | 43.4 | 34.1 | A− |
| Cranbrook (24 km) | 22,703 | 149.5 | 147.3 | D |
| Electoral Area C, East Kootenay (27 km) | 7,006 | 56.2 | 70.5 | B |
1 of the 3 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Kimberley. Closest is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay, 19.5 km away, at 43.4 to 45.9 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Kimberley with figures are 19–27 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Kimberley
Is Kimberley safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Kimberley’s Crime Severity Index stands at 45.9 for 2023–2025. Its police record 8.9 violent incidents and 21.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Kimberley?
Most often it is mischief: 7.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 6.1 and other Criminal Code offences at 5.6.
Is crime going up in Kimberley?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 22%, to 43.3 from 55.7.
How much of Kimberley’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 20% of crime (30% of violent crime, 16% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers Kimberley and nowhere else.
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).