Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo than in 78% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Electoral Area F, Nanaimo reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety: #23 of 251 in British Columbia. What’s more, its police logs show 9.8 violent incidents and 21.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 43.2 for violence and 45.4 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). The index held steady between 2023 (48) and 2025 (45.7).
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Oceanside detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo
Lower than most of British Columbia
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 44.5 in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo. Towns its size ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Electoral Area F, Nanaimo stands 16th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Electoral Area F, Nanaimo’s index splits into violent crime, 43.2 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 45.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Electoral Area F, Nanaimo’s police clear 25%, 45% of violent crime and 18% of the rest. Questions ↓
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 F, Nanaimo’s A− for safety
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 8 km from Electoral Area F, Nanaimo, 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.
Its place: #23 of 251 in British Columbia and #394 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.
What police record in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo, by type
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area F, Nanaimo runs highest on mischief (6.1 per 1,000 against 4.9). Break and enter and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 44.7 | 1.5 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.3 | 0.7 | 17% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.7 | 1.5 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 20.7 | 0.7 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 163.7 | 5.5 | 7% |
| Mischief | 182.3 | 6.1 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 0.3 | 54% |
| Administration of justice violations | 41.7 | 1.4 | 56% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 25.3 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.3 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 83 | 2.8 | 55% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
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 290 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Electoral Area F, Nanaimo (29,800 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.
Property crime adds about 620 a year and other violations 290 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Electoral Area F, Nanaimo comes 16th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Saint-Apollinaire Quebec | 9,218 | 42.6 | 72.9 | A− |
| 14 | Muskoka Lakes Ontario | 8,463 | 43.4 | 53.1 | A− |
| 15 | Coaticook Quebec | 9,027 | 44.5 | 81.6 | A− |
| 16 | Electoral Area F, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,810 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| 17 | Electoral Area G, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,412 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| 18 | Kimberley British Columbia | 9,037 | 45.9 | 44.5 | A− |
| 19 | St. Adolphe Manitoba | 8,770 | 47.5 | 54.8 | B+ |
| 20 | Electoral Area A, Comox Valley British Columbia | 8,415 | 49.5 | 61.5 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 35 | 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 Electoral Area F, Nanaimo in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Electoral Area F, Nanaimo, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 48, and 2024 the lightest at 39.8. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area F, Nanaimo | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45.7 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 39.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 48 | 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 Electoral Area F, Nanaimo, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Electoral Area F, Nanaimo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area F, Nanaimo | 8,810 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| Qualicum Beach | 9,640 | 51.5 | 32.6 | B+ |
| Electoral Area G, Nanaimo | 8,412 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| Parksville | 15,371 | 107.4 | 88.3 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Electoral Area F, Nanaimo. The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- 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. 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.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo
Is Electoral Area F, Nanaimo safe?
Electoral Area F, Nanaimo scores 44.5 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 9.8 violent incidents and 21 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo?
Top of the list is mischief (6.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 5.6, and theft under $5,000, at 5.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area F, Nanaimo?
The index stayed close to where it was, 48 in 2023 and 45.7 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area F, Nanaimo’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 25% of crime (45% of violent crime, 18% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area F, Nanaimo 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).