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Crime compared with B.C. and Canada

Calculated hereArea: Greater Victoria (CMA) compared with Comparison area: All of B.C. Comparison area: All of Canada Calendar year 2025 · Where this covers · How we calculated this

74.6 index points (Victoria)

For context

B.C. 92.4 · Canada 75.0. Violent crime: Victoria 85.4, B.C. 98.0, Canada 97.2

Source: Calculated here from Statistics Canada data, 2025 · How we calculated this

What it measures

Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index for Greater Victoria next to B.C. and Canada, for all police-reported crime and for violent crime on its own.

Why it matters

A single local number is hard to judge. Seeing the province and the country on the same scale, and violent crime separately, gives context.

Over time

Crime Severity Index (all police-reported crime)

  • Victoria (CMA): 74.6 index (2025)
  • All of B.C.: 92.4 index (2025)
  • All of Canada: 75.0 index (2025)
Line chart of 3 lines, 12 periods from 2014 to 2025. Victoria (CMA): starts at 60.9 index (2014), ends at 74.6 index (2025); highest 80.2 index (2023), lowest 60.4 index (2017). All of B.C.: starts at 90.2 index (2014), ends at 92.4 index (2025); highest 104.6 index (2023), lowest 87.1 index (2017). All of Canada: starts at 66.9 index (2014), ends at 75.0 index (2025); highest 81.3 index (2023), lowest 66.9 index (2014). Every value is in the table.0.050.0100.0150.020162019202220252014: Victoria (CMA): 60.9 index; All of B.C.: 90.2 index; All of Canada: 66.9 index2015: Victoria (CMA): 70.2 index; All of B.C.: 92.7 index; All of Canada: 70.4 index2016: Victoria (CMA): 62.1 index; All of B.C.: 91.7 index; All of Canada: 72.0 index2017: Victoria (CMA): 60.4 index; All of B.C.: 87.1 index; All of Canada: 73.6 index2018: Victoria (CMA): 63.7 index; All of B.C.: 88.7 index; All of Canada: 75.6 index2019: Victoria (CMA): 73.7 index; All of B.C.: 104.0 index; All of Canada: 79.7 index2020: Victoria (CMA): 75.8 index; All of B.C.: 97.0 index; All of Canada: 73.9 index2021: Victoria (CMA): 72.7 index; All of B.C.: 96.4 index; All of Canada: 74.9 index2022: Victoria (CMA): 74.9 index; All of B.C.: 100.3 index; All of Canada: 78.7 index2023: Victoria (CMA): 80.2 index; All of B.C.: 104.6 index; All of Canada: 81.3 index2024: Victoria (CMA): 71.2 index; All of B.C.: 93.9 index; All of Canada: 78.8 index2025: Victoria (CMA): 74.6 index; All of B.C.: 92.4 index; All of Canada: 75.0 index

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Violent Crime Severity Index

  • Victoria (CMA): 85.4 index (2025)
  • All of B.C.: 98.0 index (2025)
  • All of Canada: 97.2 index (2025)
Line chart of 3 lines, 12 periods from 2014 to 2025. Victoria (CMA): starts at 57.0 index (2014), ends at 85.4 index (2025); highest 90.8 index (2022), lowest 55.9 index (2016). All of B.C.: starts at 76.1 index (2014), ends at 98.0 index (2025); highest 101.3 index (2022), lowest 73.5 index (2016). All of Canada: starts at 70.7 index (2014), ends at 97.2 index (2025); highest 101.4 index (2024), lowest 70.7 index (2014). Every value is in the table.0.050.0100.0150.020162019202220252014: Victoria (CMA): 57.0 index; All of B.C.: 76.1 index; All of Canada: 70.7 index2015: Victoria (CMA): 67.1 index; All of B.C.: 81.5 index; All of Canada: 75.3 index2016: Victoria (CMA): 55.9 index; All of B.C.: 73.5 index; All of Canada: 76.9 index2017: Victoria (CMA): 63.1 index; All of B.C.: 74.4 index; All of Canada: 81.3 index2018: Victoria (CMA): 61.3 index; All of B.C.: 75.0 index; All of Canada: 83.5 index2019: Victoria (CMA): 64.7 index; All of B.C.: 91.5 index; All of Canada: 90.2 index2020: Victoria (CMA): 73.6 index; All of B.C.: 90.9 index; All of Canada: 88.0 index2021: Victoria (CMA): 83.0 index; All of B.C.: 95.4 index; All of Canada: 93.4 index2022: Victoria (CMA): 90.8 index; All of B.C.: 101.3 index; All of Canada: 99.0 index2023: Victoria (CMA): 74.5 index; All of B.C.: 97.7 index; All of Canada: 101.0 index2024: Victoria (CMA): 81.0 index; All of B.C.: 95.9 index; All of Canada: 101.4 index2025: Victoria (CMA): 85.4 index; All of B.C.: 98.0 index; All of Canada: 97.2 index

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Reading this page

This page is for context, so it has no “better” or “worse” label. For the year-to-year direction in Greater Victoria, see Police-reported crime. In 2025, Greater Victoria's Crime Severity Index was 74.6, compared with 92.4 for B.C. and 75.0 for Canada (Victoria = 99% of the Canadian level). For violent crime the index was 85.4, 98.0 and 97.2 (88% of the Canadian level). Victoria's violent crime index changed +49.8% since 2014 and +16.0% since 2020; its overall index changed -1.7% since 2020. The rules.

How we calculated this

Calculated here This figure is not published by an agency as is. It is calculated here, by script, from the public data listed below. It belongs with Police-reported crime.

Formula

Victoria compared with Canada = Victoria's index ÷ Canada's index × 100. Change since a year = index now ÷ index then − 1.

With the latest numbers

  • Overall, 2025: 74.57 ÷ 75.01 × 100 = 99%.
  • Violent, 2025: 85.42 ÷ 97.19 × 100 = 88%.
  • Victoria violent index: 57.01 in 2014 → 85.42 in 2025 (+49.8%).

Inputs

Keep in mind

  • Calculated here: the three areas are read from the same Statistics Canada table and shown together; the percentages compare Victoria with the Canadian level and with earlier years.
  • The index counts only crime reported to or found by police. Most crime is never reported, and willingness to report can differ between places and over time.
  • The violent crime index is a separate index for violent offences only; it can move differently from the overall index.
  • Each index is set so that Canada in 2006 equals 100. A lower number means less, or less serious, police-reported crime.

Retrieved Nov 11, 2026, 12:38 AM B.C. time. This page’s data and calculation (JSON).

Source

Calculated here from
Statistics Canada
Period
Calendar year 2025
Updated
Annually (published in July)
Retrieved
Nov 11, 2026, 12:38 AM B.C. time

Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Show the numbers as a table
Crime Severity Index (all police-reported crime) (newest first)
PeriodVictoria (CMA)All of B.C.All of Canada
202574.692.475.0
202471.293.978.8
202380.2104.681.3
202274.9100.378.7
202172.796.474.9
202075.897.073.9
201973.7104.079.7
201863.788.775.6
201760.487.173.6
201662.191.772.0
201570.292.770.4
201460.990.266.9
Violent Crime Severity Index (newest first)
PeriodVictoria (CMA)All of B.C.All of Canada
202585.498.097.2
202481.095.9101.4
202374.597.7101.0
202290.8101.399.0
202183.095.493.4
202073.690.988.0
201964.791.590.2
201861.375.083.5
201763.174.481.3
201655.973.576.9
201567.181.575.3
201457.076.170.7

Where this covers

Area: Greater Victoria (CMA)

The police services that serve Statistics Canada’s Victoria metropolitan area.

Included

  • Crime reported to the police services that serve the Victoria metropolitan area (municipal police and RCMP detachments)
  • The metropolitan area covers: Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Highlands, Metchosin, Sooke, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Sidney, part of the Juan de Fuca electoral area and eight First Nations reserves

Not included

  • Salt Spring Island
  • Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna islands)
  • Port Renfrew area (Juan de Fuca electoral area, part 2)
  • Police boundaries do not match municipal boundaries exactly, so Statistics Canada matches police services to the area as closely as it can

Official definition

Shown for comparison

  • Comparison area: All of B.C. The whole province of British Columbia. No open figure is published for Victoria alone.
  • Comparison area: All of Canada Canada as a whole, shown only for comparison.

How the agency describes it: Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries), British Columbia and Canada.

Connected to: Police services (municipal and RCMP), Provincial and federal justice policy. This is a label, not a judgement.

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