Photo: Tavis Ford from Canada · CC BY 2.0Greektown has more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
That puts it at C− for safety, judged on crime the police covering Greektown reported from 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 99.3 and 91.8. For every 1,000 residents, 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, the figures are 10.8 and 25.1. Even so, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 96.9 to 89.3.
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. Measured across the Vancouver service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Greektown
Less crime solved
Police cleared 26% of Greektown’s crime, weighted by seriousness (39% of violent crime, 20% of the rest), against 38% across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Greektown’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Greektown’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.
Crime across Vancouver, by type
These are Vancouver’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Vancouver runs highest on robbery (0.9 per 1,000 against 0.4), theft under $5,000 (24.9 per 1,000 against 11.5) and mischief (7.5 per 1,000 against 3.8). Motor vehicle theft sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 17.3 | 0.02 | 75% |
| Sexual violations against children | 237.7 | 0.3 | 14% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 163.7 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 26 | 0.04 | 63% |
| Robbery | 655 | 0.9 | 33% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 44.3 | 0.06 | 73% |
| Other violent violations | 99.7 | 0.1 | 42% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,481.7 | 3.3 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 457 | 0.6 | 50% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 673.3 | 0.9 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 849 | 1.1 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 18,459.3 | 24.9 | 13% |
| Mischief | 5,579.7 | 7.5 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 911 | 1.2 | 74% |
| Administration of justice violations | 1,897 | 2.6 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 627 | 0.8 | 50% |
| Drug violations | 1,305.7 | 1.8 | 67% |
| Impaired driving | 573.7 | 0.8 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 12 | 0.02 | 48% |
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.
Greektown, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 96.9, against a low of 89.3 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Greektown | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.3 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 93.9 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 96.9 | 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 Greektown, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Greektown
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greektown | 16,618 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Kitsilano | 27,320 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| West Point Grey | 13,429 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Dunbar-Southlands | 21,117 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Arbutus Ridge | 15,083 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Fairview | 33,969 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Davie Village | 16,833 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Neighbourhood crime in Vancouver is released only for non-commercial use, which this site can’t rely on; Greektown carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Greektown
Is Greektown safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Greektown scores 93.4 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 12.5 violent and 43.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Greektown?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 24.9, mischief at 7.5 and assault at 6.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Greektown?
Down 8%: 96.9 in 2023, 89.3 in 2025.
How much of Greektown’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 26% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 39% of violent crime and 20% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).