Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, Guildford records more crime 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). Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 104.1 to 89.1. On top of that, recorded violent incidents ran at 9.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 31.0, 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. Crime severity and crime rate: the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Guildford
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 15% of Guildford’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 ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, Guildford’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 sits behind Guildford’s C−
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Guildford itself compares.
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.
Surrey’s crime, type 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.
Guildford, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 104.1, against a low of 87.5 in 2024. 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 | Guildford | 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 Guildford, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Guildford
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford | 14,663 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Johnston Heights | 30,971 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Birdland | 10,745 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Fraser Heights | 17,688 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Port Mann | 5,988 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Fleetwood | 63,957 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Whalley | 52,642 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Its city publishes no open neighbourhood crime figures, so every figure for Guildford is the city police’s, for the whole city.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Guildford
Is Guildford safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Guildford scores 93.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 9.7 violent and 31 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Guildford?
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 Guildford?
It went down 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 104.1 to 89.1.
How much of Guildford’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?
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).