{
  "id": "crime-compared",
  "parent": "crime-severity-index",
  "category": "Health and safety",
  "title": "Police-reported crime: Greater Victoria compared with B.C. and Canada",
  "geography": "Victoria census metropolitan area (police-reporting boundaries), British Columbia and Canada",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Police services (municipal and RCMP)",
    "Provincial and federal justice policy"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How does police-reported crime in Greater Victoria compare with B.C. and Canada, overall and for violent crime?",
  "value": 74.57,
  "display_value": "74.6",
  "unit": "index points, Greater Victoria",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2025",
    "previous_value": 75.01,
    "change_percent": null
  },
  "since_text": "B.C. 92.4 · Canada 75.0. Violent crime: Victoria 85.4, B.C. 98.0, Canada 97.2",
  "trend": "context",
  "trend_basis": "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.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "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.",
  "caveats": [
    "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."
  ],
  "charts": [
    {
      "title": "Crime Severity Index (all police-reported crime)",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "index",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Victoria (CMA)",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "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
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "All of B.C.",
          "area": "bc",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 90.18
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 92.65
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 91.69
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 87.06
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 88.65
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 103.95
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 97.02
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 96.44
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 100.32
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 104.57
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 93.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 92.37
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "All of Canada",
          "area": "canada",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 66.9
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 70.39
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 72.01
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 73.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 75.6
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 79.72
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 73.92
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 74.87
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 78.74
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 81.27
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 78.84
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 75.01
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Violent Crime Severity Index",
      "fmt": "dec1",
      "unit": "index",
      "lines": [
        {
          "name": "Victoria (CMA)",
          "area": "cma-police",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 57.01
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 67.1
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 55.88
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 63.13
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 61.3
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 64.65
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 73.62
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 83.03
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 90.83
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 74.51
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 81.0
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 85.42
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "All of B.C.",
          "area": "bc",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 76.12
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 81.55
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 73.51
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 74.43
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 75.01
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 91.45
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 90.91
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 95.42
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 101.26
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 97.69
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 95.89
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 98.02
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "All of Canada",
          "area": "canada",
          "series": [
            {
              "period": "2014",
              "value": 70.71
            },
            {
              "period": "2015",
              "value": 75.34
            },
            {
              "period": "2016",
              "value": 76.88
            },
            {
              "period": "2017",
              "value": 81.27
            },
            {
              "period": "2018",
              "value": 83.54
            },
            {
              "period": "2019",
              "value": 90.24
            },
            {
              "period": "2020",
              "value": 87.99
            },
            {
              "period": "2021",
              "value": 93.4
            },
            {
              "period": "2022",
              "value": 99.03
            },
            {
              "period": "2023",
              "value": 101.01
            },
            {
              "period": "2024",
              "value": 101.42
            },
            {
              "period": "2025",
              "value": 97.19
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "calc": {
    "formula": "Victoria compared with Canada = Victoria's index ÷ Canada's index × 100. Change since a year = index now ÷ index then − 1.",
    "steps": [
      "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": [
      {
        "name": "Crime Severity Index and Violent Crime Severity Index: Victoria (CMA), British Columbia, Canada",
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        "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510002601",
        "dataset_url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8b2864a7-1612-4ae2-999d-21ea41174896",
        "table": "35-10-0026-01",
        "period": "2014 to 2025",
        "data_published": "2026-07-22",
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        },
        "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product."
      },
      {
        "name": "Same table, comparison rows (British Columbia and Canada)",
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        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (published in July)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Calculated here from Statistics Canada data",
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    "name": "Open Government Licence - Canada",
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  },
  "derived": true,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T07:38:32Z",
  "data_published": "2026-07-22",
  "attribution": "Adapted from Statistics Canada, table 35-10-0026-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.",
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2014",
      "value": 60.92
    },
    {
      "period": "2015",
      "value": 70.21
    },
    {
      "period": "2016",
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    },
    {
      "period": "2017",
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    {
      "period": "2018",
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    {
      "period": "2019",
      "value": 73.72
    },
    {
      "period": "2020",
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    {
      "period": "2021",
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    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
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    {
      "period": "2023",
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    {
      "period": "2024",
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    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
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  ]
}