Photo: Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Electoral Area B, Strathcona runs higher than in 92% of Canadian towns
Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 28% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%). Violence accounts for an index of 162.8 and other offences for 169.1, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Counting crime the police covering Electoral Area B, Strathcona reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Police counts work out at 32.2 violent incidents and 111.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Campbell River detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area B, Strathcona
A busy place, counted per resident
With 31% of its homes not lived in all year, Electoral Area B, Strathcona counts its crime against a smaller year-round population than the one that is there in season. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Electoral Area B, Strathcona records 33.9 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 ↓
Above British Columbia’s typical town
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 166.3 in Electoral Area B, Strathcona. Towns its size ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s index went from 181.5 in 2023 to 141.6 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
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 Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Electoral Area B, Strathcona has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 20 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.
Which crimes make up Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area B, Strathcona runs highest on mischief (33.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), theft under $5,000 (58.5 per 1,000 against 13.7) and assault (13.8 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.8 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.6 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.3 | 4.3 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10 | 1.9 | 10% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 18.3 | 3.5 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6 | 1.2 | 28% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 303 | 58.5 | 34% |
| Mischief | 176.7 | 33.9 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 6.7 | 1.3 | 40% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.7 | 10.5 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16 | 3.1 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 2.5 | 26% |
| Impaired driving | 75.3 | 14.5 | 42% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
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.
Year by year in Electoral Area B, Strathcona: down 22%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 181.5, and 2025 the lightest at 141.6. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area B, Strathcona | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 175.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 181.5 | 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 Electoral Area B, Strathcona, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Electoral Area B, Strathcona, 5,040 residents, recorded about 170 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 580 property crimes and 270 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 Electoral Area B, Strathcona
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, Strathcona | 1,074 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
| Electoral Area C, Strathcona (17 km) | 2,981 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
| Campbell River (21 km) | 38,300 | 162.9 | 166.6 | D |
| Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona (22 km) | 4,546 | 166.3 | 162.8 | D |
| Electoral Area A, qathet (23 km) | 1,330 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Electoral Area B, Strathcona. Closest is Campbell River, 21 km away, at 162.9 to 166.3 here. Sharing its police with 2 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 17–23 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Electoral Area B, Strathcona.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Electoral Area B, Strathcona
Is Electoral Area B, Strathcona safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Electoral Area B, Strathcona scores 166.3 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 32.2 violent and 111.5 property incidents 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 Electoral Area B, Strathcona?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 58.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 33.9 and other Criminal Code offences at 30.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area B, Strathcona?
It went down 22% between 2023 and 2025, from 181.5 to 141.6.
How much of Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 28% of crime (29% of violent crime, 27% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Electoral Area B, Strathcona 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).