Prince George suffered an increase in crime severity last year, according to a Statistics Canada analysis released this week.
The city was assigned a score of 149.87, an increase of 17.35 points from 2014.
Statcan takes police-reported offences for the year, assigns a weighted value to each of them based on their severity and then takes total population into account to work up a score.
Broken down, totals for both violent and non-violent crime also rose. Violent stood at 138.64, up 20.24 points from the year before while non-violent rose by 16.19 points to 153.64.
Three homicides were recorded within city limits in 2015, up from zero in 2014.
The scores remain well below those seen in 2006, when the overall was 224.46, violent was 227.77 and non-violent was 223.19.
In terms of ranking, the city remained in a holding pattern.
After improving from 14th to 20th worst between 2012 and 2013, the city once stood in 20th place for overall crime severity, up one place from 2014, even though the 2015 score was just 1.52 points below what was seen in 2012.
For violent crime, Prince George jumped six spots, to 20th place, and for non-violent, two places to 19th, from 2014.
In all, 305 communities with populations over 10,000 were ranked in the most recent survey.
North Battleford, SK was ranked No. 1, with a score of 320.94.
Among B.C. communities, Williams Lake was fourth at 224.55, Dawson Creek was 10th at 179.35, Fort St. John was 13th at 165.46, Prince Rupert was 17th at 160.92, Penticton was 21st at 145.08, Victoria 22nd at 139.87 and Terrace 23rd at 139.73.
The average for the communities surveyed was 69.71. Ranked 110th, West Kelowna finished just above that value at 69.88.
The controversial ranking of "Canada's most dangerous cities" by Macleans was based on the crime severity index. But the magazine took six of the most serious ones - homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault, robbery, break-and-enter and auto theft - and compared the 100 biggest cities in Canada.
For three years in a row, Prince George finished No. 1 in that account before the annual survey was quietly dropped after the 2012 edition.
Prince George Cpl. Craig Douglass said Supt. Warren Brown will provide comment next week once he's had a chance to look at the figures.
