Warfield sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Warfield grades B− for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. In a usual year, 6.9 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. A Crime Severity Index of 63.8, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Trail and Greater District detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Warfield
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Warfield moved from 65.7 to 54.3, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Under the British Columbia norm
Set among British Columbia’s towns, whose median is 83.2, Warfield scores 63.8. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Warfield’s two halves part ways: 58.3 for violence (typical 86.4) and 66.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 25% of Warfield’s crime, weighted by seriousness (51% of violent crime, 17% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 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 Warfield’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 4 km from Warfield, not to the town.
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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Warfield’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Warfield runs highest on mischief (5.8 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.5 | 12% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.08 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 15.3 | 1.3 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13.3 | 1.1 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 50 | 4.1 | 9% |
| Mischief | 71.7 | 5.8 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 117 | 9.6 | 95% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 7 | 0.6 | 39% |
| Drug violations | 6.3 | 0.5 | 63% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.9 | 62% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
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 2,500 people or more.
From 2023 to 2025, Warfield’s index dropped 17%
Crime Severity Index
At 71.5, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 54.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Warfield | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 71.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65.7 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Warfield, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Warfield, 12,300 residents, recorded about 85 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.
Add about 200 property crimes and 240 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Warfield
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warfield | 1,729 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Rossland | 4,355 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Trail | 8,539 | 114.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Montrose | 1,072 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary | 1,432 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Fruitvale | 2,068 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary | 2,008 | 63.8 | 58.3 | B− |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. 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 Warfield
Is Warfield safe?
Warfield scores 63.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 6.9 violent incidents and 16.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Warfield?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (15.4 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 5.8, and theft under $5,000, at 4.1, follow.
Is crime going up in Warfield?
Down 17%: 65.7 in 2023, 54.3 in 2025.
How much of Warfield’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 25% of crime (51% of violent crime, 17% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Warfield and everywhere else it polices.
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).