Photo: Green slash · CC BY-SA 3.0Sun Peaks Mountain has more crime per resident than two in three Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Sun Peaks Mountain reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety. The local count comes to 16.7 violent incidents and 29.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 80, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Chase detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Sun Peaks Mountain
Visitors count, residents divide
Tourists, seasonal staff and day visitors fill Sun Peaks Mountain, but Statistics Canada counts its rates per usual resident: every figure here is stretched by people who don’t live in it. How to read it ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Sun Peaks Mountain moved from 115.2 to 65, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Sun Peaks Mountain records 9.9 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 ↓
A low clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Sun Peaks Mountain’s police clear 22%, 42% of violent crime and 14% of the rest. Questions ↓
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 Sun Peaks Mountain’s C
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Sun Peaks Mountain itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 16 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.
Sun Peaks Mountain’s index fell 44% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 115.2, and 2024 the lightest at 60. 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 | Sun Peaks Mountain | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 60 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 115.2 | 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 Sun Peaks Mountain, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Sun Peaks Mountain, by type
Against the typical town its size, Sun Peaks Mountain runs highest on mischief (9.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.4). Fraud 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 | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24.3 | 2.4 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 13.3 | 1.3 | 32% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 36.3 | 3.6 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8 | 0.8 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 64.7 | 6.4 | 4% |
| Mischief | 100 | 9.9 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 23.7 | 2.3 | 54% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 5.3 | 0.5 | 32% |
| Impaired driving | 27 | 2.7 | 63% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
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 Sun Peaks Mountain, 10,100 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.
Property crime adds about 290 a year and other violations 160 (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 Sun Peaks Mountain
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Peaks Mountain | 1,546 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola | 4,540 | 80 | 77.4 | C |
| Chase | 2,591 | 80 | 77.4 | 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. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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.
Questions about safety in Sun Peaks Mountain
Is Sun Peaks Mountain safe?
Sun Peaks Mountain scores 80 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 16.7 violent incidents and 29 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Sun Peaks Mountain?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 10.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (9.9) and assault (7.5).
Is crime going up in Sun Peaks Mountain?
It went down 44% between 2023 and 2025, from 115.2 to 65.
How much of Sun Peaks Mountain’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 22% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 42% of violent and 14% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Sun Peaks Mountain 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).