Photo: Jack Borno · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Naramata is close to typical for Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Add to that, a Crime Severity Index of 71.9, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. In 2023 the index stood at 74.3; it fell to 68.8 in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 12.8 violent incidents and 32.3 incidents of property crime were recorded, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Penticton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Naramata
Mischief: high for a town its size
Naramata records 8.2 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 ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Naramata’s two halves part ways: 63.7 for violence (typical 86.4) and 75.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Near the British Columbia middle
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 71.9 in Naramata. Towns its size ↓
Police clear less here
Police cleared 24% of Naramata’s crime, weighted by seriousness (49% of violent crime, 15% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Naramata’s C+
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 12 km from Naramata, 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.
Naramata’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Naramata runs highest on mischief (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.3 per 1,000 against 2.4) and fraud (5.9 per 1,000 against 5.1). Assault 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 | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 30.3 | 2.4 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 25.3 | 2 | 26% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 54 | 4.3 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.3 | 0.7 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97.7 | 7.7 | 2% |
| Mischief | 103.3 | 8.2 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 7.3 | 0.6 | 32% |
| Administration of justice violations | 25 | 2 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26.7 | 2.1 | 26% |
| Drug violations | 5 | 0.4 | 60% |
| Impaired driving | 28 | 2.2 | 80% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.5 | 28% |
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.
Naramata, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 74.3, and its lowest 2025, at 68.8. 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 | Naramata | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 72.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 74.3 | 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 Naramata, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Naramata, 12,400 residents, recorded about 160 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 410 a year and other violations 180 (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 Naramata
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naramata | 2,077 | 71.9 | 63.7 | C+ |
| Electoral Area F, Okanagan-Similkameen | 2,149 | 71.9 | 63.7 | C+ |
| Summerland | 12,343 | 56.2 | 38.6 | B |
| Penticton | 39,068 | 164 | 142.9 | D |
| Penticton 1 | 2,147 | — | — | — |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Naramata. The nearest of them, Summerland (7.5 km away), scores 56.2 against 71.9. Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Naramata
Is Naramata safe?
The short answer is an index of 71.9 for Naramata (2023–2025), built from 12.8 violent incidents and 32.3 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Naramata?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (8.9 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 8.2, and theft under $5,000, at 7.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Naramata?
No: the index fell 7%, from 74.3 in 2023 to 68.8 in 2025.
How much of Naramata’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 24% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 49% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Naramata 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).