Photo: Syd Cannings · CC BY 4.0Crime per resident in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley runs higher than in 93% of Canadian towns
Typical years here bring 37.7 violent incidents plus 91.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Safety Grade is D, on crime the police covering Macpherson-Grizzly Valley reported from 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 196.7 and 163.2. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 184.8 to 158.7.
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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Whitehorse detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley
Mischief: high for a town its size
Macpherson-Grizzly Valley records 43 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
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 Macpherson-Grizzly Valley’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Macpherson-Grizzly Valley itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 26 km away.
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.
What police record in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley, by type
Against the typical town its size, Macpherson-Grizzly Valley runs highest on mischief (43 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (3.8 per 1,000 against 0.7) and assault (21.2 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 20.3 | 0.5 | 43% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 29 | 0.7 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 9.3 | 0.2 | 51% |
| Robbery | 28.3 | 0.7 | 58% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 10 | 0.3 | 73% |
| Other violent violations | 13.3 | 0.3 | 30% |
| Breaking and entering | 189.7 | 4.9 | 25% |
| Possession of stolen property | 48.7 | 1.3 | 33% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 106.3 | 2.7 | 21% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 24.3 | 0.6 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 1,186.3 | 30.6 | 19% |
| Mischief | 1,667 | 43 | 37% |
| Weapons violations | 63.3 | 1.6 | 55% |
| Administration of justice violations | 668.7 | 17.2 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 129.7 | 3.4 | 42% |
| Drug violations | 149.7 | 3.8 | 22% |
| Impaired driving | 338.7 | 8.7 | 31% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 19 | 0.5 | 12% |
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.
Macpherson-Grizzly Valley, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (184.8); 2025 was the lightest, at 158.7. 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 | Macpherson-Grizzly Valley | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 171.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 184.8 | 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 Macpherson-Grizzly Valley, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Macpherson-Grizzly Valley, 39,700 residents: around 1,460 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.
Property crime adds about 3,530 a year and other violations 2,530 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Macpherson-Grizzly Valley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macpherson-Grizzly Valley | 1,634 | 171.7 | 196.7 | D |
| Whitehorse (21 km) | 34,129 | 171.7 | 196.7 | D |
The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer place has figures: this one lies 21 km from Macpherson-Grizzly Valley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley
Is Macpherson-Grizzly Valley safe?
Macpherson-Grizzly Valley scores 171.7 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 37.7 violent incidents and 91 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley?
Top of the list is other Criminal Code offences (49.2 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 43, and theft under $5,000, at 30.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Macpherson-Grizzly Valley?
Down 14%: 184.8 in 2023, 158.7 in 2025.
How much of Macpherson-Grizzly Valley’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 38% of crime (53% of violent crime, 31% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Macpherson-Grizzly Valley together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).