More crimes per resident are recorded in Douglas than in 76% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 75.5 and other offences to 101.5, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Counting crime the police covering Douglas reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C− for safety: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Even so, by 2025 the index had dropped to 89.1, down from 104.1 in 2023. 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. Source area for crime severity and crime rate: the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Douglas
Police clear less here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 15% for Douglas (36% violent, 8% non-violent), beside 38% for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Douglas scores 75.5 for violence and 101.5 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 75.2 and 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 Douglas’s grade
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Douglas can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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.
Douglas, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (104.1); 2024 was the lightest, at 87.5. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 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 | Douglas | 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 Douglas, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Douglas
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 4,555 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Grandview | 16,947 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Morgan Creek | 8,084 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
Its police also cover 5 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- Severity, weighed. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Douglas is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Douglas
Is Douglas safe?
Douglas measures 93.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Douglas?
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 Douglas?
No: the index fell 14%, from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Douglas’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 15% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).