Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Strathcona sees more crime per resident than 76% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 96.9 to 89.3. It grades C− for safety on crime the police covering Strathcona reported from 2023 to 2025: #136 of 251 in British Columbia. Annual rates stand at 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Split in two, the index gives 99.3 for violence and 91.8 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2).
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 Strathcona
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 26% of crime in Strathcona ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 39% of violent crime and 20% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 38%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Strathcona’s C− for safety
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Strathcona itself compares.
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.
Strathcona, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 96.9, and 2025 the lightest at 89.3. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Strathcona | 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 Strathcona, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Strathcona
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona | 13,783 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Yaletown | 40,297 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Mount Pleasant | 37,091 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Grandview-Woodland | 28,119 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Granville Entertainment District | 19,125 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Coal Harbour | 10,407 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
| Little Saigon | 11,086 | 93.4 | 99.3 | C− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “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; Strathcona carries the city-wide figures.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Strathcona
Is Strathcona safe?
The short answer is an index of 93.4 for Strathcona (2023–2025), built from 12.5 violent incidents and 43.6 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more the figure is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Strathcona?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 24.9 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (7.5) and assault (6.9).
Is crime going up in Strathcona?
Down 8%: 96.9 in 2023, 89.3 in 2025.
How much of Strathcona’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).