Neighbourhood safety · Vancouver · data through September 2026
How safe is your Vancouver neighbourhood?
SafeRoute scores every Vancouver local area 0–100 from incidents reported to the Vancouver Police Department — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each area's centre, normalized citywide. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes, and Vancouver's live street cameras in the app's Live tab.
These figures describe reported crime around each area's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Citywide median index: 55/100.
All 22 Vancouver local areas, safest first
| Neighbourhood (safest first) | Index | Band | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerrisdale | 81/100 | Low risk | 115 |
| Dunbar-Southlands | 80/100 | Low risk | 121 |
| West Point Grey | 79/100 | Low risk | 129 |
| Killarney | 76/100 | Low risk | 139 |
| Arbutus Ridge | 74/100 | Moderate | 174 |
| Shaughnessy | 71/100 | Moderate | 210 |
| Victoria-Fraserview | 62/100 | Moderate | 306 |
| Oakridge | 60/100 | Moderate | 328 |
| South Cambie | 59/100 | Moderate | 366 |
| Renfrew-Collingwood | 57/100 | Moderate | 342 |
| Riley Park | 55/100 | Moderate | 426 |
| Sunset | 53/100 | Moderate | 408 |
| Hastings-Sunrise | 49/100 | Elevated | 543 |
| Marpole | 47/100 | Elevated | 593 |
| Kensington-Cedar Cottage | 42/100 | Elevated | 705 |
| Kitsilano | 40/100 | Elevated | 793 |
| Fairview | 33/100 | Elevated | 1,036 |
| Grandview-Woodland | 28/100 | Elevated | 1,177 |
| Mount Pleasant | 25/100 | Elevated | 1,489 |
| West End | 13/100 | High risk | 3,432 |
| Strathcona | 12/100 | High risk | 2,967 |
| Downtown | 5/100 | High risk | 10,163 |
Walking in Vancouver at night?
SafeRoute scores every walking route against the same official crime data on this page — and shows how much of each route runs on lit streets. Compare the routes and share your walk. Free, no account.
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Each incident reported to the Vancouver Police Department (via the VPD GeoDASH open data service) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every local area we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the City of Vancouver's 22 official local areas — the coarsest set on this site, so each page covers a genuinely distinct part of the city rather than a block or two. VPD anonymises incident locations to the nearest block, so maps show the reported block, not an exact address. Time-of-day charts use VPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.
The index compares areas within Vancouver. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Vancouver's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.