Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in White Rock than in 69% of Canadian towns
Its 6 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Add to that, the Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crime the police covering White Rock reported through 2023 to 2025: #122 of 251 in British Columbia. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 82.6 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 66. Recorded violent incidents ran at 13.7 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 32.4, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 White Rock
Break and enter: high for a town its size
White Rock records 4.9 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, White Rock is 32nd of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
A low clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 19% for White Rock (34% violent, 12% non-violent), beside 33% for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
White Rock scores 87.2 for violence and 81.5 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 89.4 and 56. 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 grade: C for White Rock
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: #122 of 251 in British Columbia and #1,745 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.
Crime in White Rock, type by type
Against the typical town its size, White Rock runs highest on break and enter (4.9 per 1,000 against 2.2), mischief (6.7 per 1,000 against 3.7) and fraud (6.8 per 1,000 against 5.1). Sexual assault and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.3 | 37% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.7 | 0.3 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.08 | — |
| Robbery | 6.3 | 0.3 | 21% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Breaking and entering | 121.3 | 4.9 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11.7 | 0.5 | 37% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 36.3 | 1.5 | 2% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 26.7 | 1.1 | 1% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 268.3 | 10.8 | 6% |
| Mischief | 165.7 | 6.7 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 15.3 | 0.6 | 46% |
| Administration of justice violations | 46 | 1.8 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 46.7 | 1.9 | 38% |
| Drug violations | 15 | 0.6 | 33% |
| Impaired driving | 47.7 | 1.9 | 69% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 7.3 | 0.3 | 14% |
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.
Among 40 towns its size, White Rock places 32nd
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Colwood British Columbia | 22,794 | 49.8 | 63.6 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Mont-Royal Quebec | 22,821 | 80.3 | 115.7 | C |
| 30 | Paradise Newfoundland and Labrador | 26,155 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 31 | Mount Pearl Newfoundland and Labrador | 24,266 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 32 | White Rock British Columbia | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| 33 | Grande Prairie County No. 1 Alberta | 25,883 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| 34 | Brockville Ontario | 23,720 | 100.1 | 126.6 | C− |
| 35 | Sept-Îles Quebec | 24,483 | 103.9 | 209.6 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 38 | Cranbrook British Columbia | 22,703 | 149.5 | 147.3 | D |
| 39 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 200.6 | 214.9 | D |
| 40 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 304.6 | 362 | 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 White Rock in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Year by year in White Rock: down 11%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (90.6); the low point came in 2024, at 76.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | White Rock | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80.3 | 60 |
| 2024 | 76.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 90.6 | 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 White Rock, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 340 violent incidents a year on White Rock’s police records (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 810 property crimes, plus 580 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around White Rock
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Rock | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| Semiahmoo Town Centre | 13,381 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Sunnyside | 16,784 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| South Surrey | 6,431 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Grandview | 16,947 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Ocean Park | 10,845 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
| Douglas | 4,555 | 93.6 | 75.5 | C− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than White Rock.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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 White Rock
Is White Rock safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 82.6 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 66 for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: that is where White Rock stands, with 13.7 violent and 32.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in White Rock?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 19.3, theft under $5,000 at 10.8 and fraud at 6.8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in White Rock?
The reverse: 90.6 in 2023 came down to 80.3 by 2025, 11% lower.
How much of White Rock’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 19% of crime (34% of violent crime, 12% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or contract that serves White Rock 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).