Photo: honkie6367 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fraser Heights sees more crime per resident than three in four Canadian towns
Year on year, 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. On the record of crime the police covering Fraser Heights reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Of the two halves, violence comes to 75.5 and other offences to 101.5, beside norms of 75.2 and 54.2. Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 by 2025.
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 Fraser Heights
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Fraser Heights’s police clear 15%, 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Fraser 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 grade: C− for Fraser Heights
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Fraser 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.
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 robbery (0.5 per 1,000 against 0.4). Sexual assault sits below it.
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.
Fraser Heights, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 104.1 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 87.5 in 2024. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 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 | Fraser 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 Fraser Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Fraser Heights
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Fraser Heights is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Fraser Heights
Is Fraser Heights safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 93.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Fraser Heights stands, with 9.7 violent and 31 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Fraser Heights?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (16.6 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 15.4, and fraud, at 5.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Fraser Heights?
Down 14%: 104.1 in 2023, 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Fraser Heights’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 15%: 36% for violent crime and 8% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
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).