Victoria's crime severity index dropped by 11 percent last year while Esquimalt's went up 3 percent according to Statistics Canada.
Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations.
Victoria came in with a score of 71.
The city's crime rate was also down last year by 9 percent to just under 53 hundred incidents. Esquimalt's crime rate was down by 6.5 percent.