Clayton Heights sees more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 75.5 for violence and 101.5 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). Scored on crime the police covering Clayton Heights reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C− for safety: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 by 2025. The yearly rates were 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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. Measured across the Surrey service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Clayton Heights
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Clayton Heights’s police clear 15%, 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Questions ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Clayton Heights’s index splits into violent crime, 75.5 here and 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, and everything else, 101.5 against 54.2. By type ↓
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 Clayton Heights’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Clayton Heights’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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: #136 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,836 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Surrey’s figures
These are Surrey’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Surrey runs highest on Cannabis Act offences (2.5 per 1,000 against 0.04), drug offences (4 per 1,000 against 0.9) and theft under $5,000 (16.6 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 8.7 | 0.02 | 61% |
| Sexual violations against children | 175.7 | 0.3 | 23% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 85.3 | 0.1 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 21 | 0.04 | 32% |
| Robbery | 304.7 | 0.5 | 29% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 23 | 0.04 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 55.3 | 0.1 | 29% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,019.7 | 2 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 117 | 0.2 | 49% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 871.7 | 1.6 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 289 | 0.6 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 8,757 | 16.6 | 9% |
| Mischief | 2,447 | 4.5 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 275 | 0.5 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 888.7 | 1.6 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 306.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 1,855.7 | 4 | 11% |
| Impaired driving | 848.3 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 384.3 | 0.7 | 13% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
Clayton Heights, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 104.1, and its lowest 2024, at 87.5. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Surrey Police Service took over from the RCMP on 29 November 2024. The figures here are the RCMP Surrey detachment’s for 2023–2025, the only full three years; the new service reports 2025 alone.
Every year as a table
| Year | Clayton Heights | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.1 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 87.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 104.1 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Clayton Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Clayton Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Heights | 8,961 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Aloha Estates | 13,194 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Rosewood Park | 9,004 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Provinceton | 11,625 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Cloverdale | 13,615 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sunrise Estates | 4,292 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Langley | 35,444 | 127.5 | 145 | D |
Sharing its police with 5 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. The figures for Clayton Heights are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- The index’s scale. 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 Clayton Heights
Is Clayton Heights safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Clayton Heights’s Crime Severity Index stands at 93.6 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Clayton Heights?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (15.4) and fraud (5.3).
Is crime going up in Clayton Heights?
The reverse: 104.1 in 2023 came down to 89.1 by 2025, 14% lower.
How much of Clayton Heights’s crime do police solve?
15%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 36% and non-violent crime at 8%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
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).