Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Marpole records more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 99.3 and other offences for 91.8, against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2. The Safety Grade comes out at C−, drawn from crime the police covering Marpole reported through 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. What’s more, each year brought 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+). 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. Crime severity and crime rate published for the Vancouver service area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Marpole
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the typical clearance rate is 38%; Marpole’s police clear 26%, 39% of violent crime and 20% of the rest. 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 Marpole’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Marpole’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.
Vancouver’s crime, type 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.
Marpole, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (96.9); 2025 was the lightest, at 89.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Marpole | 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 Marpole, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Marpole
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marpole | 28,182 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Oakridge | 14,071 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Sunset | 37,186 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Kerrisdale | 14,105 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Shaughnessy | 8,034 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| South Cambie | 9,846 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Riley Park | 23,682 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
Its police also cover 6 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The Vancouver Police neighbourhood data comes under non-commercial terms, so the figures here are the city’s, not Marpole’s own.
- Reading the number. 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.
Questions about safety in Marpole
Is Marpole safe?
Marpole measures 93.4 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 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Marpole?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (24.9 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 7.5, and assault, at 6.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Marpole?
The reverse: 96.9 in 2023 came down to 89.3 by 2025, 8% lower.
How much of Marpole’s crime do police solve?
26%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 39% and non-violent crime at 20%.
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).