Prince George has moved up in a recent national ranking, but not for a positive reason.
In the 2020 edition of "Canada's Most Dangerous Places" by Maclean's Magazine, the city has come in at number 14 overall.
They rank 19th in the "violent crime" section.
In 2019, Prince George was ranked 21st overall, while finishing ninth in the "violent crime" category; 2018 saw Prince George ranked 11th.
Here are the latest numbers released today (Nov. 19):
- Violent Crime Severity Index: 139 (Canadian average: 82.44 and ranked 19/237)
- Five-year change in crime: 30.04 (ranked 25/237)
- Crime Severity Index: 164 (Canadian average: 75.01 and ranked 14/237)
Homicide, Assault and Bodily Harm
- Homicide (actual incidents) - 1
- Homicide rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 1.26 (Canadian average: 1.76)
- Assault (actual incidents) - 597
- Assault rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 751.42 (Canadian average: 467.01)
- Sexual assault (actual incidents) - 79
- Sexual assault rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 99.43 (Canadian average: 75.89)
- Firearms offenses (actual incidents) - 6
- Firearms offences rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 7.55 (Canadian average: 7.58)
Theft and Property Crime
- Robbery (actual incidents) - 87
- Robbery rate (indicates per 100,000 population) - 109.5 (Canadian average: 60.58)
- Breaking and Entering (actual incidents) - 643
- Breaking and Entering rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 809.31 (Canadian average: 431.24)
- Fraud (actual incidents) - 392
- Fraud rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 493.39 (Canadian average: 349.2)
Drug Offences
- Impaired driving (actual incidents) - 265
- Impaired driving rate (incidents per 100,000) - 333.54 (Canadian average: 190.49)
- Cannabis trafficking or production (actual incidents) - 20
- Cannabis trafficking or production rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 25.17 (Canadian average: 22.5)
- Cocaine trafficking or production - 63
- Cocaine trafficking or production rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 79.3 (Canadian average: 20.03)
- Other controlled drugs, trafficking or production (actual incidents) - 73
- Other controlled drugs, trafficking and production rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 91.88 (Canadian average: 31.58)
Youth Crime
- Youth Criminal Justice Act offences (actual incidents) - 77
- Youth Criminal Justice Act offences rate (incidents per 100,000 population) - 96.92 (Canada average: 13.01)
Maclean's data source/methodology is as follows:
"Maclean's compiles its ranking using Statistics Canada’s Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, which tracks all police-reported crime. We used the most recent data available, which covers the year 2018 and was released on July 22, 2019.
The crime data we compare stem from police services that StatsCan categorizes as municipal, covering populations of at least 10,000 people. Some police coverage areas overlap. Where police forces cover multiple municipalities or regions, we added “and area” to the name of the primary municipality in the ranking tool.
To compile statistics for crimes of assault and sexual assault, we included reports of level 1 assault and level 1 sexual assault, the least serious levels.
To rank places with the fastest-growing and shrinking crime rates, we calculated the difference between their CSIs (Crime Severity Index) in 2013 and 2018."
Quesnel jumped from eighth (2018) to fifth in overall rankings.
