Photo: The original uploader was RandyMac at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0Trail has more crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 118.2 for violence and 113.4 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). Graded on crime the police covering Trail reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety: #208 of 251 in British Columbia. Typical years here bring 20.2 violent incidents plus 56.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.9 plus 31.2 in the typical town its size. Each of the 6 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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.
What stands out about safety in Trail
Mischief: high for a town its size
Trail records 22.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Less severe than in 2023
Trail’s index went from 144.5 in 2023 to 83.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Trail is 35th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Higher than most of British Columbia
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Trail scores 114.1. Towns its size ↓
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 Trail’s grade
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: #208 of 251 in British Columbia and #2,217 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, Trail’s index dropped 42%
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 144.5, and 2025 the lightest at 83.3. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Trail | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 114.5 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 144.5 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Trail, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Which crimes make up Trail’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Trail runs highest on mischief (22.3 per 1,000 against 4.9), drug offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.7) and theft under $5,000 (21.1 per 1,000 against 14.2). Sexual assault and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 32.7 | 3.9 | 21% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10.3 | 1.2 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.8 | 16% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 178.3 | 21.1 | 22% |
| Mischief | 188 | 22.3 | 19% |
| Weapons violations | 10.3 | 1.2 | 61% |
| Administration of justice violations | 50.3 | 6 | 71% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 17 | 2 | 53% |
| Drug violations | 23.7 | 2.8 | 54% |
| Impaired driving | 29.3 | 3.5 | 54% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Trail stands 35th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Electoral Area F, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,810 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| 15 | Electoral Area G, Nanaimo British Columbia | 8,412 | 44.5 | 43.2 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Electoral Area A, Comox Valley British Columbia | 8,415 | 49.5 | 61.5 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Vermilion River County Alberta | 8,282 | 96.6 | 62.7 | C− |
| 33 | Drumheller Alberta | 8,439 | 101.2 | 101.9 | C− |
| 34 | Kapuskasing Ontario | 8,825 | 105.6 | 172.8 | C− |
| 35 | Trail British Columbia | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| 36 | Edson Alberta | 8,692 | 122.3 | 93.1 | D |
| 37 | Ponoka Alberta | 8,212 | 170.5 | 210.6 | D |
| 38 | Lac la Biche County Alberta | 8,580 | 296.3 | 359.4 | D− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Iqaluit Nunavut | 8,612 | 661.3 | 844 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Trail in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 170 violent incidents a year on Trail’s police records (2023–2025)
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
And about 470 property crimes, plus 310 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Trail
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trail | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Warfield | 1,729 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Montrose | 1,072 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Rossland | 4,355 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Fruitvale | 2,068 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | 2,008 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary | 1,432 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Trail. Closest is Warfield, 4.2 km away, at 63.8 to 114.1 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Trail
Is Trail safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Trail’s Crime Severity Index stands at 114.1 for 2023–2025. Its police record 20.2 violent incidents and 56 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Trail?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 28.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (22.3) and theft under $5,000 (21.1).
Is crime going up in Trail?
The reverse: 144.5 in 2023 came down to 83.3 by 2025, 42% lower.
How much of Trail’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 34% of crime (47% of violent crime, 29% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves Trail alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).