Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Crime per resident in Crescent Heights 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). That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Crescent Heights reported from 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Even so, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 104.1 to 89.1. Police counts work out at 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1.
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 behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Crescent Heights
A low clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Crescent Heights’s police clear 15%, 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Crescent 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.
The C− for Crescent Heights, and how it is built
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Crescent Heights on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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.
Crime across Surrey, 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.
Crescent Heights, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 104.1; the lightest was 2024, at 87.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 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 | Crescent 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 Crescent Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Crescent Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Heights | 9,033 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Ocean Park | 10,845 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
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
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. The figures for Crescent Heights are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
Questions about safety in Crescent Heights
Is Crescent Heights safe?
Police-reported crime in Crescent Heights scores 93.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Crescent 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 Crescent Heights?
It went down 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 104.1 to 89.1.
How much of Crescent Heights’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 15% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 36% of violent and 8% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).