Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen records more crime than 84% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 174.3 and other offences to 91.4, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 28% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%). Counting crime the police covering Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety. Add to that, typical years here bring 21.2 violent incidents plus 37.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 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: the Princeton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen
Visitors count, residents divide
With 49% of its homes not lived in all year, Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen records 10.5 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 ↓
Above British Columbia’s typical town
The typical British Columbia town scores 83.2; Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, 114.4. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen’s index splits into violent crime, 174.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 91.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 7 km from Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, 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.
What police record in Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, by type
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.2 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.5). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24.7 | 4.1 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 25.3 | 4.2 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 73.3 | 12.3 | 17% |
| Mischief | 63.3 | 10.5 | 26% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.7 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 29 | 4.8 | 96% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7.3 | 1.2 | 45% |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 1.1 | 79% |
| Impaired driving | 25.3 | 4.2 | 62% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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.
In Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, down 11% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 127.6 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 102. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 102 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 127.6 | 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 Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen, 6,060 residents, recorded about 130 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 220 property crimes and 120 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 Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen | 2,372 | 114.4 | 174.3 | C− |
| Princeton (20 km) | 3,050 | 114.4 | 174.3 | C− |
| Peachland (52 km) | 6,302 | 44.1 | 39.2 | A− |
| Summerland (54 km) | 12,343 | 56.2 | 38.6 | B |
| Electoral Area G, Okanagan-Similkameen (56 km) | 2,402 | 113.4 | 144 | C− |
| Electoral Area F, Okanagan-Similkameen (58 km) | 2,149 | 71.9 | 63.7 | C+ |
Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen has the highest index of the places around it. Just 51.8 km away, Peachland comes to 44.1, against 114.4. 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. Distances here run 20–58 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen
Is Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen safe?
Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen scores 114.4 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 21.2 violent incidents and 37.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (13.1 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 12.3, and mischief, at 10.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 11%, to 113.6 from 127.6.
How much of Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 28% of crime (34% of violent crime, 24% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Electoral Area H, Okanagan-Similkameen 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).