Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Electoral Area D, qathet records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 65.3 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Annual rates stand at 14.6 violent incidents and 24.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Taking everything together, Electoral Area D, qathet scores B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Powell River detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area D, qathet
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area D, qathet records 10 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 ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Electoral Area D, qathet moved from 71.1 to 48.3, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Below British Columbia’s typical town
The typical British Columbia town scores 83.2; Electoral Area D, qathet, 65.3. Towns its size ↓
Violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Electoral Area D, qathet’s two halves part ways: 96.8 for violence (typical 86.4) and 53.2 for the rest (typical 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.
Electoral Area D, qathet: B− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Electoral Area D, qathet itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 15 km away.
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.
Year by year in Electoral Area D, qathet: down 32%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 76.4, with 2025 the lightest at 48.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area D, qathet | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 76.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 71.1 | 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 D, qathet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Electoral Area D, qathet’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area D, qathet runs highest on mischief (10 per 1,000 against 4.2). Fraud 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 | 3.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18 | 2.9 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 1.1 | 25% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 6.7 | 1.1 | 34% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 28 | 4.4 | 10% |
| Mischief | 63 | 10 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.7 | 3.1 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 8 | 1.3 | 34% |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 17.3 | 2.7 | 83% |
| 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 2,500 people or more.
About 92 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Electoral Area D, qathet (6,370 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.
Property crime adds about 160 a year and other violations 90 (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 Electoral Area D, qathet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, qathet | 1,221 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area C, qathet | 2,409 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area B, qathet | 1,714 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
| Powell River | 14,947 | 113.5 | 99.4 | C− |
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
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area D, qathet
Is Electoral Area D, qathet safe?
Electoral Area D, qathet scores 65.3 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 14.6 violent incidents and 24.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area D, qathet?
Most often it is mischief: 10 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 8.8 and assault at 5.5.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area D, qathet?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 32%, to 48.3 from 71.1.
How much of Electoral Area D, qathet’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 34% of crime (57% of violent crime, 22% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Electoral Area D, qathet 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).