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Police-reported crime

Area: Greater Victoria (CMA) Calendar year 2025 · Where this covers

74.6 index points

Getting worse

Was 71.2 in 2024

Source: Statistics Canada, 2025 · Full source

What it measures

Statistics Canada's Crime Severity Index, which combines how much crime is reported to police with how serious it is.

Why it matters

It is the standard way to compare police-reported crime over time. It does not measure how safe any person feels.

Over time

Line chart, 12 periods from 2014 to 2025. Police-reported crime: starts at 60.9 index points (2014), ends at 74.6 index points (2025); highest 80.2 index points (2023), lowest 60.4 index points (2017). Every value is in the table.0.050.0100.0201620192022202560.970.262.160.463.773.775.872.774.980.271.274.62014: 60.9 index points2015: 70.2 index points2016: 62.1 index points2017: 60.4 index points2018: 63.7 index points2019: 73.7 index points2020: 75.8 index points2021: 72.7 index points2022: 74.9 index points2023: 80.2 index points2024: 71.2 index points2025: 74.6 index points

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How we decided “getting worse”

A lower number means less, or less serious, police-reported crime. 74.6 in 2025 compared with 71.2 in 2024 (+4.8%). The rules.

Source

Period
Calendar year 2025
Updated by agency
Annually (published in July); latest release Jul 22, 2026
Retrieved
Nov 10, 2026, 11:52 PM 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
Police-reported crime, Greater Victoria (CMA) (newest first)
PeriodValue
202574.6
202471.2
202380.2
202274.9
202172.7
202075.8
201973.7
201863.7
201760.4
201662.1
201570.2
201460.9

Keep in mind

  • 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.

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

How the agency describes it: Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries).

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

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