British Columbia is represented by 12 cities on CrimeMaps.ca with a combined 13K+ crime incidents from official open-data portals spanning 2021–2026. Severity rankings below use the official Statistics Canada CSI.
Crime data in British Columbia comes from municipal police services and open-data portals. The province's 12 reporting cities vary in coverage period and category detail. Vancouver accounts for the largest share of reported incidents, followed by Victoria.
British Columbia cities by crime severity
British Columbia cities ranked by the Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (CSI), with smaller cities ranked by our CMSS companion metric. See the methodology for how CSI and CMSS are computed.
Safest cities in British Columbia
Safest cities in British Columbia by official CSI (ascending)
Reporting basis: Counts reflect incidents reported to police only. Under-reporting — especially for sexual assault, fraud, and minor theft — means actual incidence is higher than these figures show.
Not a per-capita rate: City-level counts here are absolute incident totals. Comparing one city's count to another without normalising for population can mislead — see the Crime Severity Index for severity-weighted, population-adjusted rankings.
Different coverage windows: Cities in this province may have different start dates and data recency. Read counts as selected-window totals, not directly comparable annual figures unless the page says so.
Different taxonomies: Police services classify offences slightly differently. Our pipeline normalises labels into 13 standard categories, but the source taxonomies are not identical.
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