Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0Strawberry Hill sees more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index dropped from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 by 2025. Even so, the Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crime the police covering Strawberry Hill reported through 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Violence accounts for an index of 75.5 and other offences for 101.5, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2. Police counts work out at 9.7 violent incidents and 31.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ they are 10.8 and 25.1.
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 published for the Surrey service area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Strawberry Hill
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill’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.
Strawberry Hill: C− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Strawberry Hill 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.
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.
Strawberry Hill, 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. 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 | Strawberry Hill | 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 Strawberry Hill, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Strawberry Hill
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Hill | 37,037 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Panorama Ridge | 36,473 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Newton | 51,222 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Colebrook | 3,617 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Brownsville | 23,515 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sullivan | 42,135 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Whalley | 52,642 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole city’s numbers. The figures for Strawberry Hill are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Strawberry Hill
Is Strawberry Hill safe?
Strawberry Hill 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 Strawberry Hill?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 16.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (15.4) and fraud (5.3).
Is crime going up in Strawberry Hill?
No: the index fell 14%, from 104.1 in 2023 to 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Strawberry Hill’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?
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).