Photo: Shane Smith · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Radium Hot Springs records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 19%, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. British Columbia’s towns sit around 83.2, midway up their range. Its Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Behind the grade sit 12.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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. Shared with the rest of the Columbia Valley detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Radium Hot Springs
A busy place, counted per resident
Radium Hot Springs draws far more visitors than it has residents, and the crime they are part of is divided by residents alone, so its rates run high for the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Radium Hot Springs records 10.2 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 ↓
Lighter than in 2023
From 79.9 in 2023 to 55.4 in 2025: that is Radium Hot Springs’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Radium Hot Springs scores 60.2 for violence and 76.7 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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.
What sits behind Radium Hot Springs’s C+
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 14 km from Radium Hot Springs, 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.
Radium Hot Springs’s index fell 31% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 79.9 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 55.4. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Radium Hot Springs | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 79.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 79.9 | 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 Radium Hot Springs, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Radium Hot Springs, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Radium Hot Springs runs highest on mischief (10.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5.7 | 0.4 | 18% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 21 | 1.6 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14 | 1.1 | 31% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.7 | 2.5 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 12 | 0.9 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 137.7 | 10.7 | 12% |
| Mischief | 131.3 | 10.2 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 24.3 | 1.9 | 69% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12.7 | 1 | 31% |
| Drug violations | 10.3 | 0.8 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 60.3 | 4.7 | 36% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 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 detachment nearest Radium Hot Springs, 13,100 residents: around 160 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 410 property crimes and 210 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 Radium Hot Springs
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radium Hot Springs | 1,489 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| Electoral Area G, East Kootenay | 1,952 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| Invermere | 4,305 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Radium Hot Springs
Is Radium Hot Springs safe?
Radium Hot Springs’s Crime Severity Index is 71.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Radium Hot Springs?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 10.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 10.2 and other Criminal Code offences at 9.9.
Is crime going up in Radium Hot Springs?
No: the index fell 31%, from 79.9 in 2023 to 55.4 in 2025.
How much of Radium Hot Springs’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 19%: 32% for violent crime and 14% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Radium Hot Springs 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).