Crime per resident in Ocean Park runs higher than in 76% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had dropped to 89.1, down from 104.1 in 2023. 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+. A Safety Grade of C− follows from crime the police covering Ocean Park reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 75.5 and 101.5.
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. The crime severity and crime rate numbers here cover the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Ocean Park
Below-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Ocean Park’s police clear 15%, 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Questions ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Ocean Park’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.
What’s behind Ocean Park’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Ocean Park’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.
Which crimes make up Surrey’s figures
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.
Ocean Park, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (104.1); 2024 was the lightest, 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 | Ocean Park | 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 Ocean Park, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Ocean Park
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Park | 10,845 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Crescent Heights | 9,033 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| White Rock | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Anderson Walk | 4,210 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
5 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
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- City-wide figures. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Ocean Park carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Ocean Park
Is Ocean Park safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Ocean Park’s Crime Severity Index stands at 93.6 for 2023–2025. Its police record 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Ocean Park?
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 Ocean Park?
Down 14%: 104.1 in 2023, 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Ocean Park’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).