Per resident, Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast records more crime than 64% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 94 and other offences to 70.2, beside norms of 85.7 and 62.8. In 2023 the index stood at 78.5; it fell to 71.4 in 2025. On crime the police covering Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety: #107 of 251 in British Columbia. Annual rates stand at 16.0 violent incidents and 28.7 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Sunshine Coast detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast stands 27th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Near the British Columbia middle
Within British Columbia, the median town comes to 83.2 on the index, against 76.6 in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast. 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.
The C+ for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, and how it is built
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 E, Sunshine Coast, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 79.9; 2025 was the lightest, at 71.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Electoral Area E, 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 E, Sunshine Coast, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Electoral Area E, 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.
By its index, Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast stands 27th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 4,389 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 2 | Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 4,309 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| 3 | Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 4,209 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| … | |||||
| 17 | Electoral Area E, Cariboo British Columbia | 4,242 | 51.7 | 55.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine British Columbia | 4,153 | 53.7 | 75.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Grand Forks British Columbia | 4,308 | 67.5 | 73.9 | B− |
| 25 | Crabtree Quebec | 4,237 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 26 | Invermere British Columbia | 4,305 | 71.6 | 60.2 | C+ |
| 27 | Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast British Columbia | 4,279 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| 28 | Victoria County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 4,258 | 82.8 | 120.7 | C |
| 29 | Oka Quebec | 4,312 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
| 30 | Claresholm Alberta | 4,242 | 91.1 | 68.1 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | High Level Alberta | 4,390 | 324 | 498.7 | 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 E, Sunshine Coast in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 370 violent incidents a year across the police area of 23,000 residents that includes Electoral Area E, 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 E, Sunshine Coast
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast | 4,279 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Gibsons | 5,090 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast | 2,691 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Roberts Creek | 3,779 | 76.6 | 94 | C+ |
| Bowen Island | 4,501 | 24.4 | 16.3 | A+ |
| Sechelt | 11,558 | 141.3 | 114.9 | D |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast. Bowen Island, 13.9 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 24.4 to 76.6. 3 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
Is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast safe?
With 16 violent incidents and 28.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast comes to 76.6 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people have a median of 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Electoral Area E, 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 E, Sunshine Coast?
No: the index fell 9%, from 78.5 in 2023 to 71.4 in 2025.
How much of Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 42% of violent crime and 18% of everything else, 27% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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).