Photo: Ursus sapien · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Port Coquitlam is close to typical for Canadian towns
Next door, 2 of 6 towns with figures record less crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, Port Coquitlam lands on B (#53 of 251 in British Columbia): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 58.2 over 2023–2025, against 60.3 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year on year, 9.7 violent incidents and 24.4 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size.
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 Port Coquitlam
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Port Coquitlam’s police clear 16%, 32% of violent crime and 11% of the rest. Questions ↓
Lighter than in 2023
From 66 in 2023 to 50.8 in 2025: that is Port Coquitlam’s index, against 64.3 and 59.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Below British Columbia’s typical town
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 58.2 in Port Coquitlam. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Port Coquitlam’s index splits into violent crime, 52 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 61.2 against 54.2. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Port Coquitlam’s B for safety
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: #53 of 251 in British Columbia and #876 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.
In Port Coquitlam, down 23% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 66 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 50.8. 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 | Port Coquitlam | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50.8 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 57.8 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 66 | 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 Port Coquitlam, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Port Coquitlam, by type
Against the typical town its size, Port Coquitlam runs highest on mischief (5 per 1,000 against 3.8). Sexual assault and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 19 | 0.3 | 25% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 21.3 | 0.3 | 86% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 13.7 | 0.2 | 42% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 169.7 | 2.5 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 0.1 | 53% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 67.7 | 1 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 32.3 | 0.5 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 782 | 11.5 | 10% |
| Mischief | 340 | 5 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 28 | 0.4 | 26% |
| Administration of justice violations | 92 | 1.4 | 64% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 45.7 | 0.7 | 26% |
| Drug violations | 31.7 | 0.5 | 44% |
| Impaired driving | 90.3 | 1.3 | 82% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 10.3 | 0.2 | 3% |
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.
About 660 violent incidents a year reached Port Coquitlam’s police, 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 1,660 property crimes and 980 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
By its index, Port Coquitlam stands 19th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgetown Ontario | 68,265 | 31.4 | 28.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Keswick Ontario | 53,630 | 52.8 | 67.4 | B+ |
| 17 | Quinte West Ontario | 50,385 | 52.9 | 73.2 | B+ |
| 18 | Welland Ontario | 66,480 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 19 | Port Coquitlam British Columbia | 67,724 | 58.2 | 52 | B |
| 20 | St. Albert Alberta | 74,621 | 58.8 | 51.1 | B |
| 21 | Granby Quebec | 72,180 | 62.6 | 92.5 | B− |
| 22 | Langford British Columbia | 59,664 | 65.9 | 65.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 31 | North Vancouver British Columbia | 66,624 | 81.6 | 62.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 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 Port Coquitlam in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Port Coquitlam
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Coquitlam | 67,724 | 58.2 | 52 | B |
| Coquitlam | 173,599 | 59.8 | 61.6 | B− |
| Port Moody | 38,285 | 43.5 | 43.4 | A− |
| Fraser Heights | 17,688 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Pitt Meadows | 20,892 | 60.8 | 59.8 | B− |
| Birdland | 10,745 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Port Mann | 5,988 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
Of 6 places nearby with their own figures, 1 come in under Port Coquitlam. Port Moody, 6.9 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 43.5 to 58.2.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. 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 Port Coquitlam
Is Port Coquitlam safe?
The short answer is an index of 58.2 for Port Coquitlam (2023–2025), built from 9.7 violent incidents and 24.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Port Coquitlam?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 12.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (11.5) and mischief (5).
Is crime going up in Port Coquitlam?
Down 23%: 66 in 2023, 50.8 in 2025.
How much of Port Coquitlam’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 16% of crime (32% of violent crime, 11% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Port Coquitlam alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).