Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Pleasant records more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 96.9 to 89.3. Graded on crime the police covering Mount Pleasant reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Year on year, 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 99.3 and 91.8.
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: one figure for all of the Vancouver service area.
What stands out about safety in Mount Pleasant
Police clear less here
Police cleared 26% of Mount Pleasant’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.
Inside Mount Pleasant’s C− for safety
How sure: Less sure than most, because no figure exists for Mount Pleasant on its own; the city’s, for its whole area, stands in.
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.
Which crimes make up Vancouver’s figures
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.
Mount Pleasant, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 96.9, against a low of 89.3 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Mount Pleasant | 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 Mount Pleasant, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Mount Pleasant
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 37,091 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Strathcona | 13,783 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Little Saigon | 11,086 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Riley Park | 23,682 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Yaletown | 40,297 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| South Cambie | 9,846 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Fairview | 33,969 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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.”
- City-wide figures. Neighbourhood crime in Vancouver is released only for non-commercial use, which this site can’t rely on; Mount Pleasant carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Mount Pleasant
Is Mount Pleasant safe?
With 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Mount Pleasant comes to 93.4 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more have a median of 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Mount Pleasant?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 24.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 7.5 and assault at 6.9.
Is crime going up in Mount Pleasant?
No: the index fell 8%, from 96.9 in 2023 to 89.3 in 2025.
How much of Mount Pleasant’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 26% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 39% of violent and 20% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).