Photo: Larry LaRose · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Colebrook runs higher than in 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). Its letter for safety is C−, worked out from crime the police covering Colebrook reported over 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. In 2023 the index stood at 104.1; it fell to 89.1 in 2025. The local count comes to 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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. Crime severity and crime rate: one figure for all of the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Colebrook
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 15% of Colebrook’s crime, weighted by seriousness (36% of violent crime, 8% of the rest), against 38% across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, Colebrook’s two halves part ways: 75.5 for violence (typical 75.2) and 101.5 for the rest (typical 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 Colebrook’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Colebrook’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.
What Surrey’s police record, by type
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.
Colebrook, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 104.1 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 87.5. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
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 | Colebrook | 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 Colebrook, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Colebrook
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colebrook | 3,617 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Panorama Ridge | 36,473 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Strawberry Hill | 37,037 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sullivan | 42,135 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Newton | 51,222 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Crescent Heights | 9,033 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- One figure for the city. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Colebrook carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in Colebrook
Is Colebrook safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Colebrook comes to 93.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Colebrook?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 15.4 and fraud at 5.3.
Is crime going up in Colebrook?
The reverse: 104.1 in 2023 came down to 89.1 by 2025, 14% lower.
How much of Colebrook’s crime do police solve?
About 15% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 36% of violent and 8% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
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).