Photo: Sarena D · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Ucluelet than in 79% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 98.3 and 106.2. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Ucluelet reported put it at C− for safety. Add to that, recorded violent incidents ran at 22.8 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 34.1, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Ucluelet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Ucluelet
Crime per resident, visitors uncounted
Tourists, seasonal staff and day visitors fill Ucluelet, but Statistics Canada counts its rates per usual resident: every figure here is stretched by people who don’t live in it. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Ucluelet records 16.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the British Columbia norm
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Ucluelet scores 103.3. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Ucluelet scores 98.3 for violence and 106.2 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. 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 Ucluelet’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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Ucluelet, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Ucluelet runs highest on mischief (16.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (13.3 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9 | 2.8 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3.3 | 1 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3.7 | 1.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23 | 7 | 16% |
| Mischief | 53.3 | 16.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 44.3 | 13.6 | 89% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.3 | 1.9 | 48% |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 2.1 | 64% |
| Impaired driving | 30 | 9.2 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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 people or more.
The police area Ucluelet is part of, 3,380 residents, recorded about 74 violent incidents a year (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.
Property crime adds about 110 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Three years of Ucluelet’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (119.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 75.5. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Ucluelet | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.5 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 115.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 119.4 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Ucluelet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Ucluelet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ucluelet | 2,452 | 103.3 | 98.3 | C− |
| Electoral Area C, Alberni-Clayoquot (13 km) | 1,009 | 103.3 | 98.3 | C− |
| Tofino (35 km) | 2,772 | 117.4 | 205.8 | C− |
| Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot (57 km) | 1,875 | 48.6 | 69.1 | B+ |
| Port Alberni (64 km) | 19,671 | 200.1 | 248.2 | D |
| Electoral Area E, Alberni-Clayoquot (64 km) | 3,069 | 48.6 | 69.1 | B+ |
2 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Ucluelet. Closest is Electoral Area D, Alberni-Clayoquot, 56.7 km away, at 48.6 to 103.3 here. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Ucluelet with figures are 13–64 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.”
- A small police area. With roughly 3,375 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Ucluelet is one part.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Ucluelet
Is Ucluelet safe?
With 22.8 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Ucluelet comes to 103.3 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Ucluelet?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (32.2 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 16.4, and assault, at 13.3, follow.
Is crime going up in Ucluelet?
Down 37%: 119.4 in 2023, 75.5 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Ucluelet’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 34% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 49% of violent and 28% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Ucluelet and everywhere else it polices.
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).