Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor recorded crime, Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 63.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year on year, 6.9 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary grades B− for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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 Trail and Greater District detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary
Less severe than in 2023
Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s index went from 65.7 in 2023 to 54.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Below British Columbia’s typical town
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 63.8 in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Violent crime scores 58.3 on Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 66.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
Weighted by seriousness, 25% of crime in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 51% of violent crime and 17% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
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 Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 10 km from Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary, 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.
Which crimes make up Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary runs highest on mischief (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 1.3 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.3 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 4.1 | 9% |
| Mischief | 71.7 | 5.8 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 117 | 9.6 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 6.3 | 0.5 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.9 | 62% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 71.5; 2025 was the lightest, at 54.3. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 71.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65.7 | 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 A, Kootenay Boundary, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary, 12,300 residents, recorded about 85 violent incidents a year, 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 200 property crimes, plus 240 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 Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | 2,008 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Fruitvale | 2,068 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Montrose | 1,072 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Trail | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Warfield | 1,729 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary | 1,432 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 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 Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary
Is Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary scores 63.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 6.9 violent and 16.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (15.4 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 5.8, and theft under $5,000, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 54.3 from 65.7.
How much of Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s crime do police solve?
25%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 51% and non-violent crime at 17%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).