Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Kelowna, British Columbia

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Satisfaction with safety

Kelowna 92%, British Columbia 86%*, Canada 88%

proportion of people who reported being satisfied with their personal safety from crime in 2014

* significantly different from Kelowna (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Kelowna 955, British Columbia 1,164, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Kelowna -20%, British Columbia -23%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Kelowna, British Columbia

Kelowna, British Columbia

Kelowna was home to 212,311 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 73 residents per square kilometre. One in four (25%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in British Columbia (26%) and slightly lower than Canada (28%).

About 6.0% of Kelowna residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, similar to British Columbia (5.9%) but slightly higher than Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented one in seven (14%) residents, lower than British Columbia (28%) and Canada (22%). One in ten (11%) immigrants in Kelowna were recent immigrants (since 2011), lower than British Columbia (14%) and Canada (16%). There was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Kelowna (7.8%) than British Columbia (30.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, over six in ten (63.0%) Kelowna residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, about three in ten (28.6%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and less than one in ten (8.4%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Kelowna (4.8%) was similar to British Columbia (4.7%) but slightly lower than Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Kelowna earned a median after-tax annual income of $53,740 in 2017, slightly higher than in British Columbia ($52,120) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was somewhat lower in Kelowna (15%) than in British Columbia (18%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.3 persons per household in Kelowna in 2016, similar to British Columbia (2.4) and Canada (2.4). Most (73%) households in Kelowna owned their homes, slightly higher than in British Columbia (68%) and Canada (68%). When a household spends 30% or more of its income on shelter costs, it is considered to live in unaffordable housing: this was the case for one in four (26%) Kelowna households, similar to British Columbia (28%) and Canada (24%). A small proportion (4.5%) of occupied private dwellings in Kelowna were in need of major repairs, lower than British Columbia (6.3%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-seventh (14%) of Kelowna families were lone-parent families, similar to British Columbia (15%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated minimum of 286 homeless individuals living in Kelowna.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, almost two in five (37%) Kelowna residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, on par with British Columbia residents (37%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Just over half (52%) of Kelowna residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, a similar proportion to British Columbia (50%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Kelowna were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (39% versus 61%), similar to British Columbia and Canada’s provinces.
About one in seven (14%^E) Kelowna residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, significantly lower than in British Columbia (24%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
One in five (21%) Kelowna residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, which was not significantly different from British Columbia (24%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 11%^E of Kelowna residents experienced discrimination, which was not significantly different from British Columbia (14%) and Canada’s provinces (13%).
About 18%^E of Kelowna residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, similar to British Columbia (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (73%) of Kelowna residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, close to British Columbia (72%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (90%) of Kelowna residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was on par with the proportion in British Columbia (90%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, 5.3% of Kelowna residents aged 15 and older were victims of a self-reported physical or sexual assault, which was not significantly different from British Columbia (4.6%) and Canada’s provinces (4.4%).
Just over one in four (27%) Kelowna residents experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, which was not significantly different from British Columbia (26%) or Canada’s provinces (23%).
- In Kelowna, women were significantly more likely to experience unwanted sexual behaviour in public than men (40% versus 14%).
- Of those who experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public in 2018, nearly half (47%) of Kelowna residents changed their behaviour while in public as a result, as did half of those in British Columbia (53%) and those in Canada’s provinces (50%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Kelowna police reported an overall crime rate of 8,707 incidents per 100,000 population, 18% higher than in British Columbia (7,400) and 59% higher than Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 20% in Kelowna, while a similar decline was seen in British Columbia (-23%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Kelowna increased by 6% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in breaking and entering; trafficking, production or distribution of methamphetamine; theft under $5,000 (non-shoplifting); identity fraud; and trafficking, production or distribution of opioids (other than heroin). Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Kelowna declined by 20%, compared with a 28% decline in British Columbia and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 6,022 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Kelowna in 2018, 26% higher than in British Columbia (4,771) and 80% higher than Canada (3,339).
Self-reported: There were 160^E property crimes per 1,000 Kelowna households reported in 2014 (includes breaking and entering, theft of motor vehicle or parts, theft of household property and vandalism), which was not significantly different than British Columbia (167) and Canada’s provinces (143).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 955 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Kelowna, 18% lower than British Columbia (1,164) and 16% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- Around half of victims of violent crime were female in Kelowna (47%), British Columbia (50%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Kelowna declined by 51%, notably larger than the decline seen in British Columbia (-31%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Kelowna declined by 56%, which was greater than the decline in British Columbia (-37%) and Canada (-13%).
In Kelowna, violent crime against girls and women declined to a similar extent between 2009 and 2018 as violent crime against boys and men (-49% versus -47%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was more than three times lower in Kelowna (1.4 incidents per 100,000 population) than in British Columbia (5.0) and Canada (4.9) in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018, the rate of police-reported hate crime in Kelowna increased by 35%, similar to British Columbia (+37%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 253 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Kelowna in 2018, 9% lower than British Columbia (277) and 22% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (74%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Kelowna were female, slightly lower than in British Columbia (78%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 1.5% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Kelowna between 2009 and 2018, lower than in British Columbia (2.5%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Kelowna had 2 homicides—a rate of 0.95 per 100,000 population—lower than British Columbia (1.78) and Canada (1.76).
Of the 2 homicide victims in Kelowna, 1 was female. Meanwhile, 19% of homicide victims in British Columbia and 25% of homicide victims in Canada were female.
The number of homicides in Kelowna decreased from 6 victims in 2008 to 2 victims in 2018.

Charts and tables

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Chart 1 Police-reported violent and non-violent Crime Severity Indexes, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2006 to 2018

Data table for Chart 1

Data table for Chart 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 1. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent Crime Severity Index, Non-violent Crime Severity Index, Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada
	index
2006	101	121	100	158	147	100
2007	99	118	98	141	138	94
2008	110	116	95	132	124	89
2009	105	113	94	128	112	85
2010	96	104	89	119	104	81
2011	87	96	86	102	97	75
2012	86	91	82	111	96	73
2013	63	80	74	96	90	67
2014	59	76	71	99	95	65
2015	72	82	75	108	97	68
2016	63	74	77	111	98	70
2017	60	75	81	108	92	71
2018	48	73	82	119	93	72
Note: Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes are available as of 1998. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Following the 2006 Census of Population, Kelowna was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2006 are not available for Kelowna as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Chart 2 Police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 2

Data table for Chart 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 2. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims, Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,552	1,474	1,206	1,710	1,578	1,202
2010	1,513	1,406	1,209	1,772	1,474	1,162
2011	1,383	1,215	1,124	1,495	1,300	1,087
2012	1,218	1,090	1,079	1,515	1,213	1,048
2013	977	977	1,004	1,126	1,056	947
2014	882	907	952	994	965	898
2015	932	913	970	1,025	991	914
2016	770	862	978	910	913	910
2017	757	866	1,019	802	883	926
2018	792	915	1,048	911	923	936
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Chart 3 Police-reported property crime, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 3

Data table for Chart 3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 3. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	6,476	5,593	4,122
2010	5,694	5,192	3,838
2011	4,945	4,774	3,536
2012	5,602	4,766	3,438
2013	4,723	4,514	3,154
2014	4,740	4,807	3,100
2015	5,318	4,871	3,231
2016	5,551	4,892	3,239
2017	5,490	4,719	3,266
2018	6,022	4,771	3,339
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. For a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 1
Police-reported crime rate for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, Percent difference between Kelowna and British Columbia and Percent difference between Kelowna and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kelowna	British Columbia	Canada	Percent difference between Kelowna and British Columbia	Percent difference between Kelowna and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Kelowna and British Columbia	Percent difference between Kelowna and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	8,708	7,400	5,488	18	59
Total violent crime	955	1,164	1,143	-18	-16
Violations causing death and attempted murder	0.9	4	4	-74	-78
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	47	85	101	-45	-54
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	607	629	649	-4	-6
Other violent offences	301	446	389	-33	-23
Total property crime	6,022	4,771	3,339	26	80
Breaking and entering	692	524	431	32	60
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	3,661	2,767	1,720	32	113
Fraud	611	477	402	28	52
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	912	905	699	0.8	31
Other property crime offences	146	97	86	51	70
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	1,731	1,465	1,006	18	72
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	403	325	339	24	19
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	246	226	178	9	38
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	27	13	12	103	126
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	1	0.7	-100	-100
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.2	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	131	85	148	55	-12
Total drug offences	627	366	225	71	178
Total other federal statute offences	139	119	70	16	97
Total all offences	9,877	8,210	6,123	20	61
Note 1 Includes sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children, and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes incidents of child pornography. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes assault (level 1, 2 and 3), assault against a peace officer, unlawfully causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and other assaults. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes total theft of motor vehicle, total theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) and total theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 2
Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kelowna		British Columbia		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	792	911	915	923	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	0.9	1	2	6	2	6
Homicide	0.9	1	0.7	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0	0	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	0	0	0.7	3	1	3
Sexual offences	85	5	149	18	170	23
Sexual assault	63	3	115	11	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	0	0.3	0	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	0	0	1	0.3	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	63	3	113	11	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	22	2	34	7	36	7
Assaults	509	707	558	700	613	644
Physical assault	495	656	545	649	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	3	9	3	9	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	82	178	95	196	111	173
Assault – level 1	410	470	446	444	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	10	48	9	47	10	48
Other assaults	4	3	4	3	4	7
Other violent offences	197	198	206	199	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	2	2	1	3	2	6
Robbery	17	32	26	56	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	6	0	11	3	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	0	0	0.4	0	1	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.
Extortion	7	13	5	9	6	9
Criminal harassment	19	4	24	7	53	17
Uttering threats	86	123	80	100	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	48	16	47	16	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	5	3	5	0.8	7	1
Commodification of sexual activity^{Table 2 Note 4}	0.9	0	0.2	0.1	1	0.1
Other violent offences	8	5	7	4	10	8
Total traffic offences	8	7	3	4	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	1	0.4	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	8	6	3	4	6	7
Traffic violations – injury unspecified or unknown^{Table 2 Note 5}	0	0	0	0	9	12
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value. Note 1 Includes, for example, criminal negligence causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault, and incidents of child pornography. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes four specific indictable offences to address human trafficking, namely sections 279.01 (trafficking in persons), 279.011 (trafficking of a person under the age of 18), 279.02 (material benefit) and 279.03 (withholding or destroying documents). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 As of December 2014, new offences classified as “commodification of sexual activity” under “violent crime” include: the purchasing of sexual services or communicating for that purpose, receiving a material benefit deriving from the purchase of sexual services, procuring of persons for the purpose of prostitution and advertising sexual services offered for sale. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes failure to stop after an accident and failure to stop or remain (expired 2011-04-28). Return to note 5 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Table 3
Police-reported crime for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Kelowna, British Columbia and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kelowna		British Columbia		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	18,821	8,922	351,728	7,046	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	12,704	6,022	238,141	4,771	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	1,459	692	26,161	524	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	226	107	3,484	70	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	814	386	12,570	252	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	188	89	4,580	92	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	6,721	3,186	120,967	2,423	531,312	1,434
Fraud	977	463	20,160	404	129,409	349
Identity theft	52	25	465	9	3,745	10
Identity fraud	259	123	3,203	64	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	1,925	912	45,199	905	259,064	699
Arson	83	39	1,352	27	8,000	22
Total other offences	3,651	1,731	73,147	1,465	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	180	85	3,198	64	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	48	23	1,755	35	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	26	0.5	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	6	0.1	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	2,227	1,056	41,848	838	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	832	394	19,504	391	226,864	612
Other offences	364	173	6,810	136	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	851	403	16,234	325	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	518	246	11,281	226	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	57	27	666	13	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	55	1	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	10	0.2	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	276	131	4,222	85	54,951	148
Total drug offences	1,322	627	18,247	366	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	293	139	5,959	119	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	0	0	1	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	2	0.9	689	14	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	291	138	5,269	106	21,149	57
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value. Note 1 Includes trafficking and the intent to traffic stolen goods. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes offences under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code which makes it illegal to access, possess, make, print or distribute child pornography. When the victim is not identified, this offence is reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey with the most serious offence being “child pornography” which falls under the larger crime category of “other Criminal Code offences.” In cases where a victim is identified, police will report the most serious offence as sexual assault, sexual exploitation or other sexual violations against children, which fall under the category of “violent crime” and child pornography may be reported as a secondary violation. Due to the complexity of these cyber incidents, the data likely reflect the number of active or closed investigations for the year rather than the total number of incidents reported to police. Data are based on police-reported incidents that are recorded in police services’ records management systems. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes prostitution offences that are considered non-violent offences. These include: communicating to provide sexual services for consideration and stopping or impeding traffic for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration. Excludes commodification of sexual activity offences. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes human trafficking offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, census metropolitan area of Kelowna, 2008 to 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent crime, Property crime and Total crime, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent crime			Property crime			Total crime
Year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year
2008	3,395	1,939	-5	12,031	6,871	-0.5	19,164	10,945	-2
2009	3,334	1,870	-4	11,544	6,476	-6	18,757	10,522	-4
2010	3,089	1,703	-9	10,328	5,694	-12	17,140	9,449	-10
2011	2,864	1,568	-8	9,030	4,945	-13	15,283	8,369	-11
2012	2,813	1,519	-3	10,371	5,602	13	16,329	8,820	5
2013	2,103	1,119	-26	8,877	4,723	-16	13,785	7,335	-17
2014	1,968	1,025	-8	9,105	4,740	0.4	14,087	7,333	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.
2015	2,116	1,073	5	10,483	5,318	12	16,033	8,133	11
2016	1,858	916	-15	11,258	5,551	4	16,627	8,199	0.8
2017	1,749	845	-8	11,363	5,490	-1	16,395	7,922	-3
2018	2,015	955	13	12,704	6,022	10	18,370	8,708	10
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-41	-51	Note ...: not applicable	6	-12	Note ...: not applicable	-4	-20	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value. Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2 and for a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Total crime includes violent, property and other types of crimes. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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^E use with caution

Note: This fact sheet contains data that come from multiple sources across multiple reference years. Some figures may be presented differently than in other Statistics Canada publications due to rounding. For detailed information on data definitions and sources, please refer to the Safe Cities profile series: Definitions and data sources document.

Date modified:: 2020-05-15

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