Montrose sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 63.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Add to that, its letter overall is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. The yearly rates were 6.9 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Trail and Greater District detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Montrose
Lighter than in 2023
Montrose’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 ↓
Under the British Columbia norm
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 63.8 in Montrose. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 58.3 on Montrose’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 66.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 25% of crime in Montrose 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.
Inside Montrose’s B− for safety
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 8 km from Montrose, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Montrose’s index fell 17% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked in 2024 at 71.5, between two lighter years; the lowest, 2025, came in 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 | Montrose | 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 Montrose, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Montrose’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Montrose runs highest on mischief (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.2).
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.
The detachment nearest Montrose, 12,300 residents: around 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.
Add about 200 property crimes and 240 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Montrose
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose | 1,072 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Fruitvale | 2,068 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | 2,008 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Trail | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Warfield | 1,729 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Rossland | 4,355 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary | 1,432 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
5 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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.
Questions about safety in Montrose
Is Montrose safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Montrose 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. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Montrose?
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 Montrose?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 17%, to 54.3 from 65.7.
How much of Montrose’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 25% of crime (51% of violent crime, 17% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Montrose and everywhere else it polices.
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).