Per resident, Lumby records less crime than two in three Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 66.4 and 48.3. The Safety Grade comes out at B+, drawn from crime the police covering Lumby reported through 2023 to 2025. Each year brought 10.1 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 51.1 in 2023 to 43.6 by 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Lumby detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Lumby
Below British Columbia’s typical town
Lumby’s index of 53.2 compares with 83.2 for the typical town in British Columbia. Towns its size ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 24% of crime in Lumby ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 47% of violent crime and 9% 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.
Inside Lumby’s B+ 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.
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 Lumby’s figures
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 14 | 1.9 | 2% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 15.3 | 2.1 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 26.3 | 3.6 | 5% |
| Mischief | 27.7 | 3.8 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 13.7 | 1.9 | 51% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8 | 1.1 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.7 | 1.3 | 72% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 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 people or more.
Lumby, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 64.8 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 43.6 in 2025. 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 | Lumby | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 64.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.1 | 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 Lumby, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Lumby is part of, 7,400 residents, recorded about 74 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.
Property crime adds about 120 a year and other violations 64 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Lumby
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumby | 2,257 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| Electoral Area D, North Okanagan | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| Coldstream | 11,380 | 45.1 | 61.9 | A− |
| Electoral Area C, North Okanagan | 5,029 | 61.3 | 74.1 | B− |
Lumby sits above 1 of the 2 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 17.8 km away, Coldstream comes to 45.1, against 53.2. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Lumby is one part.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Lumby
Is Lumby safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Lumby scores 53.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 10.1 violent and 16.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Lumby?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (6.8 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 4.4, and assault, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Lumby?
No: the index fell 15%, from 51.1 in 2023 to 43.6 in 2025.
How much of Lumby’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 24% of crime (47% of violent crime, 9% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lumby 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).