Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore crimes per resident are recorded in Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast than in 64% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 78.5 to 71.4. Police clear 27% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town its size is 34%. Counting crime the police covering Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety: #107 of 251 in British Columbia. Split in two, the index gives 94 for violence and 70.2 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8).
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Sunshine Coast detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast
Visitors count, residents divide
About 38% of Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast is 25th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
About the British Columbia norm
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast scores 76.6. 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 sits behind Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast’s C+
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.
Its place: #107 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,587 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (79.9) and 2025 the trough (71.4). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.4 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 79.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 78.5 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.8). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8.7 | 0.4 | 31% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.3 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 82.7 | 3.6 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 14.7 | 0.6 | 43% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26 | 1.1 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 19.3 | 0.8 | 2% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 229 | 10 | 17% |
| Mischief | 166.7 | 7.3 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 10 | 0.4 | 67% |
| Administration of justice violations | 76.3 | 3.3 | 57% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 32.7 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 0.9 | 47% |
| Impaired driving | 77 | 3.4 | 66% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5.3 | 0.2 | 51% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast comes 25th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adelaide-Metcalfe Ontario | 3,196 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,184 | 53.2 | 66.4 | B+ |
| 15 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 3,189 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Enderby British Columbia | 3,292 | 62.6 | 70.8 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 22 | Grande-Rivière Quebec | 3,318 | 69.4 | 134.9 | C+ |
| 23 | Marathon Ontario | 3,223 | 74.7 | 120.7 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-André-d'Argenteuil Quebec | 3,300 | 76.4 | 122.2 | C+ |
| 25 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 3,256 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 26 | Pincher Creek No. 9 Alberta | 3,176 | 84.5 | 85.4 | C |
| 27 | Dalhousie New Brunswick | 3,255 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| 28 | Bonavista Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,293 | 92.8 | 63.2 | C |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Central Okanagan West British Columbia | 3,298 | 106.7 | 102.5 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Inuvik Northwest Territories | 3,337 | 718.3 | 807.9 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 370 violent incidents a year in the 23,000-resident police area around Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast, 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 660 property crimes and 420 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 A, Sunshine Coast
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast | 3,256 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Welcome Beach (16 km) | 3,130 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Sechelt (25 km) | 11,558 | 141.3 | 114.9 | D |
| Electoral Area C, qathet (30 km) | 2,409 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area D, qathet (32 km) | 1,221 | 65.3 | 96.8 | B− |
| Roberts Creek (37 km) | 3,779 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast sits above 2 of the 3 neighbours with figures of their own. The nearest of them, Electoral Area C, qathet (30.1 km away), scores 65.3 against 76.6. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 16–37 km from Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast
Is Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast safe?
Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast’s Crime Severity Index is 76.6 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 16 violent incidents and 28.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 13.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 10 and mischief at 7.3.
Is crime going up in Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast?
Down 9%: 78.5 in 2023, 71.4 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 27% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 42% of violent and 18% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast and everywhere else it polices.
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).