Photo: David Abercrombie · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Port McNeill records more crime than 83% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 123.4 and other offences for 107.5, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Graded on crime the police covering Port McNeill reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety. Year on year, 25.2 violent incidents and 34.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Port McNeill detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Port McNeill
Mischief: high for a town its size
Port McNeill records 12.9 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 ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 111.3 in Port McNeill. 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’s behind Port McNeill’s grade
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.
Crime in Port McNeill, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Port McNeill runs highest on mischief (12.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.7 | 3.7 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 1.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 45.3 | 10.6 | 24% |
| Mischief | 55.3 | 12.9 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 1 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 22 | 5.1 | 67% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 1.6 | 40% |
| Drug violations | 6.3 | 1.5 | 52% |
| Impaired driving | 22.3 | 5.2 | 64% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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 people or more.
The police area Port McNeill is part of, 4,290 residents, recorded about 110 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.
And about 150 property crimes, plus 130 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Three years of Port McNeill’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
From 135.5 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 92 in 2025. 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 | Port McNeill | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 106.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 135.5 | 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 Port McNeill, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Port McNeill
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port McNeill | 2,402 | 111.3 | 123.4 | C− |
| Port Hardy (33 km) | 4,201 | 259.5 | 435.4 | D |
| Electoral Area C, Strathcona (144 km) | 2,981 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
| Campbell River (146 km) | 38,300 | 162.9 | 166.6 | D |
| Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona (153 km) | 4,546 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
The places around Port McNeill all score higher on the index.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Port McNeill with figures are 33–153 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- A small police area. With roughly 4,285 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Port McNeill together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Port McNeill
Is Port McNeill safe?
Its police recorded 25.2 violent incidents and 34.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Port McNeill a Crime Severity Index of 111.3. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Port McNeill?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 18 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (12.9) and theft under $5,000 (10.6).
Is crime going up in Port McNeill?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 32%, to 92 from 135.5. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Port McNeill’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 56% of violent crime and 29% of everything else, 38% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Port McNeill 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).