Photo: Miranda.Kopetzky · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in North Vancouver than in 68% of Canadian towns
Each of the 5 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident. By contrast, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 85.1 to 79.5. Graded on crime the police covering North Vancouver reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety: #120 of 251 in British Columbia. In a usual year, 11.4 violent incidents and 33.4 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical town its size, 10.8 and 25.1.
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.
What stands out about safety in North Vancouver
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; North Vancouver’s police clear 16%, 33% of violent crime and 11% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
North Vancouver’s index splits into violent crime, 62.7 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 89.8 against 54.2. By type ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
North Vancouver records 4.1 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, North Vancouver places 30th from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
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 North Vancouver’s C
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: #120 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,738 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What police record in North Vancouver, by type
Against the typical town its size, North Vancouver runs highest on break and enter (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.2), theft under $5,000 (16.7 per 1,000 against 11.5) and mischief (5.6 per 1,000 against 3.8). Drug offences and motor vehicle theft 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 | 22.7 | 0.3 | 6% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 12 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 14 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.7 | 0.1 | 31% |
| Breaking and entering | 273.7 | 4.1 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 21.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 33.7 | 0.5 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 45.3 | 0.7 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,114.7 | 16.7 | 12% |
| Mischief | 370 | 5.6 | 10% |
| Weapons violations | 34.3 | 0.5 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 179.3 | 2.7 | 79% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 67.3 | 1 | 26% |
| Drug violations | 39.3 | 0.6 | 53% |
| Impaired driving | 56.7 | 0.9 | 85% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 50,000 people or more.
By its index, North Vancouver stands 30th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgetown Ontario | 68,265 | 31.4 | 28.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Port Coquitlam British Columbia | 67,724 | 58.2 | 52 | B |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Langford British Columbia | 59,664 | 65.9 | 65.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Sarnia Ontario | 80,539 | 79.4 | 105.1 | C |
| 28 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux Quebec | 50,246 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 29 | Saint John New Brunswick | 79,371 | 81.5 | 114.2 | C |
| 30 | North Vancouver British Columbia | 66,624 | 81.6 | 62.7 | C |
| 31 | Medicine Hat Alberta | 68,714 | 87.3 | 82.6 | C |
| 32 | North Bay Ontario | 62,062 | 87.5 | 124.1 | C |
| 33 | Fredericton New Brunswick | 74,655 | 92.3 | 101.9 | C |
| … | |||||
| 39 | Vernon British Columbia | 49,527 | 145.1 | 141.2 | D |
| 40 | Grande Prairie Alberta | 71,160 | 149.3 | 157.2 | 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 North Vancouver in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
North Vancouver, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (85.1); the low point came in 2025, at 79.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | North Vancouver | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79.5 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 80.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 85.1 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering North Vancouver, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
North Vancouver’s police: about 760 violent incidents a year over 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 2,230 a year and other violations 1,700 (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 North Vancouver
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Vancouver | 66,624 | 81.6 | 62.7 | C |
| North Vancouver | 97,845 | 36 | 33.7 | A |
| Capilano 5 | 3,376 | — | — | — |
| Strathcona | 13,783 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Coal Harbour | 10,407 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Grandview-Woodland | 28,119 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Yaletown | 40,297 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 1 come in under North Vancouver. Closest is North Vancouver, 2.4 km away, at 36 to 81.6 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in North Vancouver
Is North Vancouver safe?
North Vancouver scores 81.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3; per 1,000 residents a year that is 11.4 violent incidents and 33.4 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in North Vancouver?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 23.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (16.7) and mischief (5.6).
Is crime going up in North Vancouver?
It went down 7% between 2023 and 2025, from 85.1 to 79.5.
How much of North Vancouver’s crime do police solve?
About 16% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 33% of violent and 11% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Its own police: the service or contract that covers North Vancouver and nowhere else.
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).