Lot in Lytton (PID 031-934-218)

Zone

C1 (General Commercial): about 49% of the parcel; P1 (Public): about 48% of the parcel

Rest of the parcel

About 4%: no zone on the map

Zoning bylaw

Village of Lytton Zoning Bylaw No. 484, 1998

Homes allowed

Apartments, or homes with a business: upstairs or downstairs with their own street entrance, or one on the ground floor for the owner or manager; a house only on a lot that had one, or one being lawfully built, on June 30, 2021 (the day of the Lytton fire)

Main uses

Shops and shopping centre, offices, restaurant, pub, hotel or motel, service station, entertainment and indoor recreation, personal, professional and general services, bus and taxi depot, funeral parlour, public assembly, tourist information, apartments

Smallest lot for a subdivision

205 m², 6.7 m wide

Height limit

Main building 10 m, accessory buildings 6.2 m

Setbacks

Rear 4.5 m; the zone sets no front or side setback

Fewest homes provincial law requires

Doesn't set a floor here as far as we can tell: the C1 zone (General Commercial) isn't limited to houses and duplexes (inferred from its name), and the provincial floor applies only in zones that are.

Short-term rentals (provincial rule)

Whether the Province's principal residence requirement applies in Lytton is unclear: it isn't on either of the Province's lists (in force from June 1, 2026). Most likely it doesn't apply (inferred): it covers municipalities of 10,000 people or more, smaller communities close to them and those that opt in, and Lytton had 210 people in 2021. The village office can confirm it. The Province's map and the regulation's Schedule 1 settle it. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.

Homes above or below the ground floor need their own entrance from a ground-floor door on a public street (s. 8.3). A house rebuilt under s. 8.6 meets every other rule of the bylaw.

A home on the ground floor is for the owner or manager and their household: one only, at the back of the building with its own entrance from the rear or side, up to 150 m² (s. 8.4).

Service stations: pumps 4.5 m from lot lines, servicing indoors, the lot paved, screening 1 m tall next to residential lots, and no home combined with the service station (s. 8.5).

Each home has at least 48.3 m² of floor area.

"Tourist accommodation" here means a hotel or motel registered for the provincial hotel room tax, with a lobby and guest register, staff on duty at all times and a restaurant on the lot (s. 1); it doesn't cover renting out a house.

The bylaw doesn't list vacation or short-term rental, or bed and breakfast, as a use in this zone. Ask the Village before renting a home short term.

Outdoor storage is screened by a fence or structure up to 2.4 m; next to an R1 lot, a solid wood fence 1.8 to 2.4 m tall runs along the lot line (s. 3.24). The Village can waive off-street parking in a C zone where on-street parking will do (Schedule C).

One main building per lot (s. 3.3).

No accessory building goes up before the main building (s. 3.6). Accessory buildings without a suite total at most 10% of the lot or half the main building's floor area, whichever is less (s. 3.7), stand 1.8 m from the main building, and sit no closer to the front lot line than it does (ss. 3.8, 3.9).

Fences up to 1.8 m on rear and interior side lot lines and 1.3 m on front and exterior side lot lines; on a corner lot, nothing over 0.9 m in the 6 m sight triangle at the corner (ss. 3.10, 3.19).

For a new lot, the minimum area grows to keep driveways at 18% grade or less, and by the area of any watercourse crossing it plus 7 m each side, and of any right-of-way over 3 m wide (s. 3.22).

Heights are measured from grade (the lowest of the walls' average ground levels) to the top of a flat roof, the deck line of a mansard roof, or between the eaves and ridge of a pitched roof (s. 1).

Every zone also allows parks, public services and public uses such as roads, utility lines and pump stations (s. 3.2).

Floodplain (Schedule B): no building within 30 m of the top of the bank of the Fraser and Thompson rivers, 15 m of Lytton Creek or any other watercourse, or 7.5 m of a lake, pond or dike. Floors of living, business or storage space sit at least 8 m above the Fraser and Thompson rivers' high water mark and 1.5 m above that of Lytton Creek, other streams and standing water; on an alluvial fan an engineer designs the foundations. Renovations, additions under 25% of the floor area, garages and carports, and most farm buildings are exempt from the floor level.

Our summary of Section 8 of Village of Lytton Zoning Bylaw No. 484, 1998, consolidated to 2025-02-19. Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property.

On a town-sized lot, a zone line through the middle can be a real split or a small misfit between the zoning map and the parcel map; the local government's zoning map decides which. The rules shown are for the larger part.

The zones listed cover about 96% of the parcel. About 4% is under no zone on the Village of Lytton's map: zoning maps often leave roads and water unzoned, or it's a gap between the zoning map and the parcel map (inferred).

Zoning is only one layer: development permit areas, the official community plan, the ALR, building and septic permits and provincial housing rules can add limits or allow more. Confirm with the Village of Lytton (planning@lytton.ca) before you buy or build.

The provincial floor is our summary of the small-scale multi-unit housing rules in the Local Government Act (ss. 481.3 and 481.4) and the Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, checked 2026-10-04. Local governments had to bring their bylaws in line by June 30, 2024, and with the 2025 changes by June 30, 2026, so the zone's own rules usually allow at least these homes already; height, coverage, setbacks and parking still decide how they fit. Whether the lot is inside an urban containment boundary, on community water or sewer, or near a frequent bus stop isn't checked here: confirm with the local government before you buy or build.

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

740 m² (79%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

0%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

21%

15 to 30% slope

16%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

0%

Median slope

7%

Main slope direction

No main direction: the slopes face several ways; measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (Flood Hazard Mapping South West survey, 2023; 2 m grid)

Which way it faces

11% south (SE to SW), 6% north (NW to NE), 40% flat; the rest east or west

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's lidar elevation model, from the Flood Hazard Mapping South West survey (2023): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 2 m grid, one dot on the plan per cell. Retaining walls, road cuts and ditches count as steep ground, and earthworks since the survey aren't shown. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

December 21 (shortest day)

4 h 20 min of possible direct sun; 7 h 50 min on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

8 h 30 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

13 h; 16 h 10 min on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

16° above level; the hills due south rise to 3°, 15.4 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

17° above level to the south-east, 4.9 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 191 m, from head height

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

Capability class (1 best, 7 none)

Class 5: about 70% of the lot; Class 6: about 30% of the lot

What limits it

soil holds little water, stones

Improved rating

Class 3 on most of the mapped part, assuming the improvements the map judged practical

Map scale

1:50,000: describes the area, not the field

Mapped

1960s to 1990s (digitised 2015)

These classes rate how well the land suits ordinary field crops, from the soil and climate as surveyed decades ago. Drainage, irrigation or fill since then can change the real answer, and a map at this scale can miss a good or poor field. The Agricultural Land Commission weighs these classes when it decides applications.

If farming matters to you here, a professional agrologist (P.Ag.) can assess the soil on site.

These maps were drawn mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and cover only some rivers and lakes. Not being on one doesn't mean the land can't flood: ask the local government whether it has newer flood mapping, and whether its bylaws set a flood construction level or floodplain setback here.

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)

0.18 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.074 g

Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings

0.42 g

The same value in city centres

Victoria 0.81 g, Vancouver 0.47 g, Kelowna 0.089 g, Prince George 0.064 g

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C). Soft soil, fill or a slope can make shaking stronger; the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer.

2% in 50 years means shaking at least this strong has about a 1-in-2,500 chance in any year; 10% in 50 years, about 1 in 475. g is the acceleration of gravity. The comparison with Vancouver and the other cities is ours.

Liquefaction, earthquake-triggered landslides and tsunami aren't covered here; ask the local government whether it has mapped them.

On record on the lot or within 100 m

0

On record within 1 km

0

On record within 5 km

18

Nearest

1.1 km from the lot: an earth slide, date not recorded

Kinds within 5 km

debris flow 7, earth slide 3, debris flood 2, mountain slope deformation 2, rock fall 2, earth fall 1, rock slide 1

With a date

10 of 18; the latest 15 Nov 2021 (debris flow, 1.2 km from the lot)

Recorded causes

rainfall 9

This is a list of landslides that are known to have happened, gathered from published inventories and from mapping on satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map: it doesn't say how likely a slide is here, and no record nearby doesn't mean the ground is stable. Some parts of BC (the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, recent burn areas) are mapped in far more detail than others.

Each point mostly marks where a slide started. Debris can travel well past it, down a creek channel and onto the fan at the creek's mouth, so a lot on a fan or below a steep slope can be reached by a slide that began kilometres away. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary.

Some records nearby are listed under a wildfire: burned slopes shed debris flows in heavy rain for several years after a fire.

The kind of slide and its date are the database's own, mostly worked out from images, so treat them as a first look. Confirm with the local government, many of which have mapped steep-slope or debris-flow hazard areas, and with a geotechnical engineer.

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Thompson Cariboo Shuswap

Homes tested here

109

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

7 (6.4%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

143 of 1,817 homes (7.9%) at or above the guideline

Radon comes up from the ground and differs from one house to the next, even next door, so a regional figure says nothing certain about one home. The only way to know is a long-term test of at least 3 months. Health Canada's guideline is 200 Bq/m³ in the parts of a home where people spend more than 4 hours a day; above it, fix it within a year, and the higher the level, the sooner. For a home you buy, Health Canada suggests a long-term test once you've moved in.

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Open sites (active or suspected) within 500 m

0

Open sites within 2 km

2

Closed sites within 2 km

1

Klickkumcheen 18 reserve (Lytton)

630 m from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons and PAHs in soil. Initial testing completed. Detailed testing underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00000549.

Klickkumcheen 18 reserve (Lytton)

650 m from the lot. Active: contamination confirmed, work under way; high priority for action. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons in soil. Remediation / risk management completed. Confirmatory sampling underway. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00006396.

Klickkumcheen 18 reserve (Lytton)

600 m from the lot. Closed: no further action needed. Found or suspected: petroleum hydrocarbons and PAHs in soil. Confirmatory sampling completed. No further action required. Federal custodian: Indigenous Services Canada; site 00006357.

This inventory lists only contaminated sites on federal land or that the federal government is responsible for: military land, ports and harbours, airports, fisheries and research stations, reserve land, national parks and similar. Most contaminated sites in BC, such as old gas stations, dry cleaners and industrial land, are on the Province's Site Registry, which charges for searches and isn't shown here. Ask the seller what the land and its neighbours were used for; a Phase I environmental site assessment covers it properly.

Each site is one point given by its federal custodian, and a large site such as a base or an airport reaches well past it. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary to that point.

Closed means the custodian found no further action needed after testing, cleanup or risk management; it doesn't always mean nothing is left in the ground. The priority class is the federal ranking of its own sites for funding and action, not a measure of risk to neighbours.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

Cutblocks applied for (1 km)

0

Approved, not yet logged (1 km)

0

Logged in the last 5 years (1 km)

0

Crown land applications (1 km)

guided freshwater recreation (2), community facility

Quarry, industry, energy or tower tenures (500 m)

None

Local development applications

Not covered here: we read applications only where the local government publishes them as open data (the CSRD, the City of Surrey, the City of Abbotsford and the District of Squamish). Ask the Village of Lytton what's in progress on and near the lot

Nearest power line (200 m)

None mapped within 200 m

Major projects in assessment (10 km)

None

Major projects approved (10 km)

None

Reviewed, no assessment needed (10 km)

None

Closed or not reviewable (10 km)

None

Cutblocks are from the province's forest tenure records, which cover Crown forest licences and woodlots, not logging on private land. Crown land applications are on the province's tenure register; the Applications, Comments and Reasons for Decision site takes public comments on them. Mineral and placer claims are in their own section above.

Major projects are those large enough to need a provincial environmental assessment: mines, power plants, pipelines, transmission lines, highways, ports, dams and resorts, among others. Each is on the Environmental Assessment Office's register at a single point, the location it gives for the project. A mine, pipeline, transmission line or road can reach well past that point, so a project listed 8 km away can still pass the lot, and one placed beyond 10 km isn't listed here. Each project's page on the EAO's site has its maps, documents and comment periods; distances are measured by us from the lot line to the point. Smaller projects (subdivisions, smaller pits and quarries, and other works under the assessment thresholds) aren't on this register.

Power lines are from two maps read together: the Province's map of high-voltage transmission lines (BC Hydro's, private and independent producers' lines), which leaves voltages out, and OpenStreetMap, where volunteers map lines and record the voltage where it's known. Smaller distribution lines along streets aren't included. Distances are measured by us from the lot line to the mapped line, which can sit some metres off the real one. The line's right of way, and what it lets the line's owner do on the land, is set by the easement on title, which is the definitive record: check it in the title search, and ask BC Hydro (or the line's owner) about clearances for building and trees.

Nearest railway (2 km)

A main railway line (Ashcroft Subdivision, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City, VIA Rail Canada), about 130 m from the lot line

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Main Street (Highway 12), a major road, about 40 m from the lot line, bordering the lot (our reading: within 50 m)

Nearest freeway or highway

Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), a highway, about 250 m from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.

Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.

Community water

No open map of the Village of Lytton's water service: ask the Village of Lytton whether the lot is on it

Wells within 2 km

4

Median depth

30 m

Median tested yield

193 L/min (4 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

12 m

Mapped aquifer under the lot

None mapped

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

Community sewer

No open map of the Village of Lytton's sewer service: ask the Village of Lytton whether the lot is on it

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

None mapped

Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)

440 m² (47%)

Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)

500 m² (54%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

610 m² (65%)

Screening, not a site assessment: measured by us on the same elevation cells as the buildable area, against the separations in the Province's Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual: a field stays 30 m from a drinking-water well (60 to 90 m from a high-pumping one), 30 m from a lake, river or permanent stream (15 m from seasonal water and the sea), 7.5 m from a downslope drain or bank where effluent could break out, and, as a guideline, 3 m from the lot line. We use 30 m for every mapped stream. A gravity field isn't allowed on slopes over 15%, a mound or at-grade bed over 25%, and trenches over 45%.

Under the Sewerage System Regulation, only an Authorized Person (a Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner or a professional engineer or geoscientist) may plan and install a system, and they file the plans with the regional health authority before work starts. They dig test pits to check the soil depth and the seasonal water table and measure how fast the soil drains, which no open map shows. Ask the seller for the filing and maintenance records of an existing system, and have it inspected.

Well locations in GWELLS are often approximate, and many wells were never registered: look for well caps on and next to the lot. Wells, water lines and septic fields on the neighbours' land count too.

If the lot is on a community sewer, none of this applies; ask the local government, which may also set larger setbacks or a minimum lot size for septic.

Nearest hospital

Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre: 57 km

Next nearest hospital

Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre, Merritt: 59 km

School catchment

Not mapped for this lot: catchments are shown only where the school district's boundaries are open data, for Surrey Schools (Surrey and White Rock) and the North Vancouver School District (the City and District of North Vancouver). Ask the school district which schools serve it.

Nearest public elementary school

Kumsheen ShchEma-meet, Lytton: 1.1 km

Nearest public secondary school

Kumsheen ShchEma-meet, Lytton: 1.1 km

Independent schools within 10 km

1

Nearest grocery store

Lillooet Foods: 57 km

Grocery stores within 10 km

0

Nearest fire station

Lytton Volunteer Fire Department: 100 m, on the Province's list

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 321, Lasha: 3.5 km

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us. The drive is longer, and much longer where the road winds, crosses water or takes a ferry.

Hospitals are from the Province's list. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and some small towns have a health centre with emergency care that isn't on this list: check with the regional health authority.

Which school a child goes to depends on the school district's catchment, not on distance: ask the district.

A fire station nearby doesn't mean it covers this lot: confirm the fire protection area with the local government. Insurers price fire cover by the road distance to the hall that responds and whether the lot is inside a fire protection area.

Fire halls and ambulance stations are from the Province's First Responders list (updated 2026-09-11), with fire stations it lacks added from OpenStreetMap. A hall that has moved may still be listed at its old address.

An ambulance station is where crews are based. How soon one arrives depends on where the crew is when the call comes.

Grocery stores are from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers: one may be missing, closed or mapped in the wrong place.

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over fixed wireless

50/10 Mbps or faster

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

within about 1 km (about 100 m)

Data

ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026

This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.

Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.

A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.

Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.

Nearest climate station

Lytton, 700 m away

Station elevation

225 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

190 m

January mean temperature (1991-2020)

−1.1 °C

July mean temperature (1991-2020)

22.6 °C

Lowest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

−23.5 °C (2008)

Period

1991-2020

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

7b

Normals are 30-year averages at the station, not readings for this lot. In BC's mountains a few hundred metres of elevation, a north-facing slope or a lakeshore can change winters a lot: a hillside lot can be much colder and snowier than a valley station.

The lot's elevation is our estimate from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model at the middle of the lot.

The hardiness zone is from Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map, read by us on a grid of about 2 to 3 km: near a zone's edge, or well above or below the valley around it, the lot may fall in the next zone. It is a guide to which plants survive the winter, not a frost date.

ECCC's 1991-2020 normals for this station don't include yearly precipitation, yearly snowfall, the frost-free period or days with snow on the ground, so those are left out rather than guessed.

Recent years have run warmer than the 1991-2020 averages in much of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.

Local government

Lytton

Residential rate, 2026

6.4231 per $1,000

Municipal

2.998 per $1,000

Regional district

0.6601 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.3125 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

2.1367 per $1,000

Other

0.3158 per $1,000

BC municipalities' middle rate

6.24337 per $1,000

Your bill uses BC Assessment's value for the property, which can differ from its price, and may also include parcel taxes and utility fees (water, sewer, garbage) that aren't rates on value.

The home owner grant takes up to $570 off the bill of a home its owner lives in ($770 in the Province's northern and rural area in 2026, and up to $845, or $1,045 there, for seniors, veterans and people with a disability), for homes assessed at $2,075,000 or less in 2026; above that it shrinks by $5 for each $1,000. From 2027 the northern and rural extra ends and the regular grant is $570 everywhere. The owner applies each year, and must pay at least $350 in tax ($100 for the higher grant) after it.

Rates are set each May for the year; the next year's will differ.

Police service

The Lytton RCMP detachment (rural; inferred)

Crime severity index, 2025

115 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

166 / 96 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

113 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

297 (BC 281)

Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

59 (BC 138)

Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

119 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

3,739 (BC 1,531)

All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025

7,656 (BC 6,943)

Inferred: the RCMP detachment named for this town. BC's police boundaries aren't open data, and a detachment's figures cover the countryside it polices as well as the town.

The crime severity index weighs each offence by how serious it is (one assault counts for more than several thefts), with Canada in 2006 set at 100. Rates are per 100,000 people living in the police service's area, so places with many visitors, commuters or seasonal homes read high, and in small places a few incidents swing the figures a lot. These are crimes reported to police, not all crime.

In BC only Surrey, the Township of Langley, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam publish reported property crime block by block under an open licence; reports there count what was reported within 500 m of the lot. The police here don't, so the figures above are for the whole area they cover.

Police calls to a particular address aren't published in BC (privacy law keeps police records about identifiable people closed), and neither is whether a home was used as a grow-op or drug lab: that shows up as a notice on the title. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.