Grand Falls records more crime per resident than nine in ten Canadian towns
In 2023 the index stood at 151.6; it rose to 174 in 2025. It grades D for safety on crime the police covering Grand Falls reported from 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 160.4 and 166.4. Police counts work out at 28.2 violent incidents and 55.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Perth Andover detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Grand Falls
Mischief: high for a town its size
Grand Falls records 16.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Above New Brunswick’s typical town
Grand Falls’s index of 163.7 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Grand Falls’s index splits into violent crime, 160.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 166.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Grand Falls’s police clear 25%, 51% of violent crime and 15% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: D for Grand Falls
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Grand Falls itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 23 km away.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Grand Falls, by type
Against the typical town its size, Grand Falls runs highest on mischief (16.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (9.7 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (5.9 per 1,000 against 2.4). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 67 | 9.7 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 31 | 4.5 | 18% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.7 | 5.9 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.8 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.7 | 9.9 | 12% |
| Mischief | 113.3 | 16.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 7.6 | 57% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 20 | 2.9 | 22% |
| Drug violations | 13.7 | 2 | 31% |
| Impaired driving | 26.3 | 3.8 | 42% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Grand Falls, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 174; the lightest was 2023, at 151.6. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Grand Falls | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 165.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 151.6 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Grand Falls, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 200 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Grand Falls (6,950 residents), 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Add about 380 property crimes and 240 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Grand Falls
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Falls | 1,114 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Denmark | 1,412 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault | 5,465 | 65.6 | 72.4 | B− |
| Drummond | 2,113 | 96.8 | 127.6 | C− |
| Saint-André | 1,987 | 96.8 | 127.6 | C− |
| Tobique 20 | 1,042 | — | — | — |
Grand Falls has the highest index of the places around it. Just 11.4 km away, Grand Falls / Grand-Sault comes to 65.6, against 163.7. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Grand Falls
Is Grand Falls safe?
With 28.2 violent incidents and 55.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Grand Falls comes to 163.7 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Grand Falls?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 17.4, mischief at 16.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 14.8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Grand Falls?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 15%, to 174 from 151.6.
How much of Grand Falls’s crime do police solve?
25%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 51% and non-violent crime at 15%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Grand Falls and other places, so the figures are shared.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).