{
  "id": "crime-severity-index",
  "category": "Health and safety",
  "title": "Police-reported crime (Crime Severity Index)",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Police services (municipal and RCMP)",
    "Provincial and federal justice policy"
  ],
  "plain_question": "Taking both how much and how serious police-reported crime is, is it going up or down?",
  "value": 74.57,
  "display_value": "74.6",
  "unit": "index points (higher means more, or more serious, police-reported crime)",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2024",
    "previous_value": 71.18,
    "change_percent": 4.8
  },
  "trend": "worsening",
  "trend_basis": "74.6 in 2025 compared with 71.2 in 2024 (+4.8%).",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A lower number means less, or less serious, police-reported crime.",
  "caveats": [
    "The index counts only crime reported to or found by police. Changes in how willing people are to report, or in police practices, can move it.",
    "Each offence is weighted by how serious it is, so one serious offence can move the number more than many minor ones.",
    "It is not a measure of how safe any person or neighbourhood is.",
    "The area follows police-reporting boundaries for the Victoria census metropolitan area, which includes several municipalities, not only the City of Victoria.",
    "Yearly values since 2014: 2014: 60.9, 2015: 70.2, 2016: 62.1, 2017: 60.4, 2018: 63.7, 2019: 73.7, 2020: 75.8, 2021: 72.7, 2022: 74.9, 2023: 80.2, 2024: 71.2, 2025: 74.6."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2014",
      "value": 60.92
    },
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "value": 70.21
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
      "value": 62.07
    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
      "value": 60.44
    },
    {
      "period": "2018",
      "value": 63.74
    },
    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 73.72
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
      "value": 75.85
    },
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 72.72
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": 74.92
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 80.22
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 71.18
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 74.57
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (published in July)",
  "data_published": "2026-07-22",
  "source": {
    "name": "Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics (Uniform Crime Reporting Survey)",
    "url": "https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects-start/crime_and_justice",
    "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8b2864a7-1612-4ae2-999d-21ea41174896",
    "table_url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510002601",
    "table": "35-10-0026-01"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
    "url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T06:52:36Z"
}