Photo: John Newcomb · CC BY 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in View Royal than in 62% of Canadian towns
The grade is B, built on crime the police covering View Royal reported from 2023 to 2025: #49 of 251 in British Columbia. Its violent half comes to 53.9 and its non-violent half to 55.2, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Year on year, 12.9 violent incidents and 26.0 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Among its 5 neighbours with figures, 2 record less crime per resident.
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.
What stands out about safety in View Royal
Lighter than British Columbia’s middle
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, View Royal scores 54.5. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
View Royal’s index splits into violent crime, 53.9 here and 89.4 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 55.2 against 56. By type ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, View Royal is 23rd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Drug offences: high for a town its size
View Royal records 1.6 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.8 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The B for View Royal, and how it is built
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: #49 of 251 in British Columbia and #703 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What police record in View Royal, by type
Against the typical town its size, View Royal runs highest on drug offences (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.8) and mischief (6.4 per 1,000 against 3.7). Theft under $5,000 and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 29.7 | 2.3 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.7 | 0.6 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 11 | 0.9 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 25% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 121.7 | 9.6 | 18% |
| Mischief | 81.3 | 6.4 | 27% |
| Weapons violations | 8.3 | 0.7 | 69% |
| Administration of justice violations | 37 | 2.9 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 17.3 | 1.4 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 20.7 | 1.6 | 42% |
| Impaired driving | 56 | 4.4 | 46% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
From 2023 to 2025, View Royal’s index dropped 6%
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (56.6); 2025 was the lightest, at 53.3. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | View Royal | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 56.6 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering View Royal, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Police in View Royal recorded about 160 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.
And about 330 property crimes, plus 210 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Among 40 towns its size, View Royal places 23rd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rothesay New Brunswick | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 11 | North Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 37.5 | 32.9 | A |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Saltspring Island British Columbia | 12,429 | 39.1 | 40.3 | A |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Stratford Prince Edward Island | 13,152 | 50 | 78.6 | B+ |
| 21 | Blackfalds Alberta | 12,258 | 50.8 | 49.1 | B+ |
| 22 | Sainte-Julienne Quebec | 12,990 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| 23 | View Royal British Columbia | 12,795 | 54.5 | 53.9 | B |
| 24 | Summerland British Columbia | 12,343 | 56.2 | 38.6 | B |
| 25 | Rawdon Quebec | 13,099 | 57.5 | 87.6 | B |
| 26 | Sidney British Columbia | 13,445 | 68.4 | 72.4 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 34 | Nelson British Columbia | 12,126 | 100.4 | 98.4 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 37 | Prince Rupert British Columbia | 12,903 | 185.2 | 292.9 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to View Royal in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around View Royal
Of 5 places nearby with their own figures, 3 come in under View Royal. Closest is Esquimalt, 4 km away, at 43 to 54.5 here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in View Royal
Is View Royal safe?
View Royal measures 54.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.9 violent incidents and 26 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in View Royal?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (9.7 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 9.6, and mischief, at 6.4, follow.
Is crime going up in View Royal?
Down 6%: 56.6 in 2023, 53.3 in 2025.
How much of View Royal’s crime do police solve?
30%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 41% and non-violent crime at 26%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves View Royal alone, so the figures are the town’s.
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).