Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Rosedale than in 92% of Canadian towns
That puts it at D for safety, judged on crime the police covering Rosedale reported from 2023 to 2025. The local count comes to 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 219.2 and its non-violent half to 143.8, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Chilliwack detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rosedale
Mischief: high for a town its size
Rosedale records 14.1 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 ↓
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in Rosedale stood at 230.3, by 2025 at 125.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
Rosedale’s index of 164.4 compares with 83.2 for the typical town in British Columbia. 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 Rosedale’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Rosedale itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 14 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.
In Rosedale, down 46% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (230.3); the low point came in 2025, at 125.4. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rosedale | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 137.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 230.3 | 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 Rosedale, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Rosedale, by type
Against the typical town its size, Rosedale runs highest on mischief (14.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (6 per 1,000 against 2.5) and fraud (11 per 1,000 against 5.1).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7 | 1 | 24% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.3 | 0.9 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.9 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 6 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 1.5 | 18% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.7 | 3.2 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.3 | 1.6 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 184.7 | 25.3 | 10% |
| Mischief | 103 | 14.1 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 8.7 | 1.2 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 30.3 | 4.1 | 68% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22 | 3 | 24% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 2 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 39.3 | 5.4 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.8 | 22% |
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 closest to Rosedale, 7,450 residents, recorded about 220 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.
Property crime adds about 470 a year and other violations 350 (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 Rosedale
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosedale | 2,401 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Kent | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
| Harrison Hot Springs | 2,148 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley | 1,748 | 164.4 | 219.2 | D |
| Skowkale | 1,114 | — | — | — |
| Chilliwack | 105,520 | 142.2 | 158.4 | D |
| Tzeachten 13 | 4,899 | — | — | — |
The places around Rosedale all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Kent (5.3 km away), scores 65.5 against 164.4. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Rosedale
Is Rosedale safe?
Rosedale’s Crime Severity Index is 164.4 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 30.5 violent incidents and 63.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Rosedale?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (36.1 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 25.3, and mischief, at 14.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Rosedale?
The reverse: 230.3 in 2023 came down to 125.4 by 2025, 46% lower.
How much of Rosedale’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 27% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 45% of violent crime and 16% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Rosedale 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).