Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine records more crime than 93% of Canadian towns
It grades D for safety on crime the police covering Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine reported from 2023 to 2025. Its police logs show 62.7 violent incidents and 62.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 295.3 for violence and 150.2 for everything else (normally 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the New Hazelton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine records 43.9 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 ↓
Above British Columbia’s typical town
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 190.5 in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine. Towns its size ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 44% of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s crime, weighted by seriousness (61% of violent crime, 31% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s two halves part ways: 295.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 150.2 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s D for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 17 km off, which covers its own area rather than Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine.
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.
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine runs highest on mischief (43.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), sexual assault (4.6 per 1,000 against 0.8) and assault (36.5 per 1,000 against 6.7). Fraud 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 | 11 | 2 | 64% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 1.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.7 | 4 | 32% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11 | 2 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 46 | 8.2 | 24% |
| Mischief | 247 | 43.9 | 48% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.9 | 89% |
| Administration of justice violations | 77 | 13.7 | 58% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 21.3 | 3.8 | 61% |
| Drug violations | 7.3 | 1.3 | 55% |
| Impaired driving | 30 | 5.3 | 72% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
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 350 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine (5,610 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.
Add about 350 property crimes and 300 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
In Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 197.1 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 179 in 2024. 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 | Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 179 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 197.1 | 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 B, Kitimat-Stikine, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine | 1,617 | 190.5 | 295.3 | D |
| Smithers (61 km) | 5,627 | 202.3 | 180.8 | D |
| Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako (64 km) | 5,829 | 65 | 107 | B− |
| Telkwa (74 km) | 1,544 | 65 | 107 | B− |
Nearby, 2 of 3 places with their own figures have a lower index than Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine. Just 64.4 km away, Electoral Area A, Bulkley-Nechako comes to 65, against 190.5.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 61–74 km from Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine
Is Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine safe?
Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine measures 190.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 62.7 violent incidents and 62.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 45.5, mischief at 43.9 and assault at 36.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 197.1 to 195.2.
How much of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 44% of crime (61% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine 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).