Photo: 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Port Mann records more crime than three in four Canadian towns
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+. That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Port Mann reported from 2023 to 2025: #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. The index fell from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 in 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. Data for crime severity and crime rate covers the Surrey service area.
What stands out about safety in Port Mann
Police clear less here
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Port Mann ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 36% of violent crime and 8% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 38%. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 75.5 on Port Mann’s index against 75.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+; non-violent crime, 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 Port Mann’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Port Mann 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 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.
Port Mann, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 104.1 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, 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 | Port Mann | 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 Port Mann, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Port Mann
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Mann | 5,988 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Birdland | 10,745 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Whalley | 52,642 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Bridgeview | 3,511 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Guildford | 14,663 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Johnston Heights | 30,971 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Fraser Heights | 17,688 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
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
- 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. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. No open data breaks the city’s crime down by neighbourhood, so Port Mann carries the city-wide figures.
Questions about safety in Port Mann
Is Port Mann safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Port Mann comes to 93.6. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 9.7 violent incidents and 31 property crimes. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Port Mann?
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 Port Mann?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 14%, to 89.1 from 104.1.
How much of Port Mann’s crime do police solve?
15%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 36% and non-violent crime at 8%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for 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).