Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainElectoral Area D, North Okanagan has less crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 51.1 in 2023 to 43.6 by 2025. What’s more, the grade is B+, built on crime the police covering Electoral Area D, North Okanagan reported from 2023 to 2025: #45 of 251 in British Columbia. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.1 violent incidents and 16.9 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Of the two halves, violence comes to 66.4 and other offences to 48.3, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8.
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. Shared with the rest of the Lumby detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
Lower than most of British Columbia
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Electoral Area D, North Okanagan scores 53.2. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Electoral Area D, North Okanagan is 17th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s police clear 24%, 47% of violent crime and 9% 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.
The grade: B+ for Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 5 km from Electoral Area D, North Okanagan, 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.
Its place: #45 of 251 in British Columbia and #639 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 D, North Okanagan, by type
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 to 10,000 people.
Electoral Area D, North Okanagan, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 64.8; 2025 was lightest, at 43.6. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.6 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 64.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 51.1 | 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 D, North Okanagan, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 74 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Electoral Area D, North Okanagan (7,400 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.
And about 120 property crimes, plus 64 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Electoral Area D, North Okanagan comes 17th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Saint-Liboire Quebec | 3,123 | 49.7 | 70.8 | B+ |
| 15 | Trois-Pistoles Quebec | 3,123 | 52.3 | 97.2 | B+ |
| 16 | Pilot Butte Saskatchewan | 3,255 | 52.8 | 60.8 | B+ |
| 17 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| 18 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 3,189 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| 19 | Ange-Gardien Quebec | 3,100 | 55 | 88.5 | B |
| 20 | Adstock Quebec | 3,203 | 55.9 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 28 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 3,256 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 29 | Welcome Beach British Columbia | 3,130 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Houston British Columbia | 3,114 | 162 | 219.6 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | La Loche Saskatchewan | 3,124 | 1,107 | 1,524.7 | 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 D, North Okanagan in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, North Okanagan | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| Lumby | 2,257 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| Electoral Area E, North Okanagan | 1,248 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
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.”
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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 Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
Is Electoral Area D, North Okanagan safe?
Electoral Area D, North Okanagan scores 53.2 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 10.1 violent incidents and 16.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan?
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 Electoral Area D, North Okanagan?
No: the index fell 15%, from 51.1 in 2023 to 43.6 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s crime do police solve?
24%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 47% and non-violent crime at 9%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area D, North Okanagan 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).