Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Arnold's Cove records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Arnold's Cove grades B− for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure rose, 63.5 to 68.7. Police counts work out at 11.4 violent incidents and 24.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. A Crime Severity Index of 64.2, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Clarenville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Arnold's Cove
Mischief: high for a town its size
Arnold's Cove records 13.1 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 ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Arnold's Cove’s two halves part ways: 58.5 for violence (typical 86.4) and 67.1 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Below Newfoundland and Labrador’s typical town
Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the median town comes to 81 on the index, against 64.2 in Arnold's Cove. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
Police cleared 23% of Arnold's Cove’s crime, weighted by seriousness (38% of violent crime, 18% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Arnold's Cove: B− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 46 km from Arnold's Cove, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Arnold's Cove’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Arnold's Cove runs highest on mischief (13.1 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.3 | 26% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 34 | 1.9 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 76.7 | 4.2 | 22% |
| Mischief | 237.3 | 13.1 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 77.3 | 4.3 | 67% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 23.3 | 1.3 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 50.3 | 2.8 | 12% |
| Impaired driving | 93 | 5.1 | 25% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Arnold's Cove, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 68.7, with 2024 the lightest at 60.4. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Arnold's Cove | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 60.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 63.5 | 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 Arnold's Cove, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 210 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Arnold's Cove (18,200 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.
Property crime adds about 440 a year and other violations 360 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Arnold's Cove
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold's Cove | 1,016 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision M (35 km) | 1,878 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision E (36 km) | 2,978 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision Y (42 km) | 1,374 | 61.2 | 54.7 | B− |
| Clarenville (46 km) | 7,441 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision L (48 km) | 1,248 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Arnold's Cove. The nearest of them, Division No. 1, Subdivision Y (42.3 km away), scores 61.2 against 64.2. Same police, same number: 3 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 35–48 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Arnold's Cove.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Arnold's Cove
Is Arnold's Cove safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Arnold's Cove comes to 64.2. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.4 violent incidents and 24.1 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Arnold's Cove?
Top of the list is mischief (13.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 6, follow.
Is crime going up in Arnold's Cove?
It went up 8% between 2023 and 2025, from 63.5 to 68.7.
How much of Arnold's Cove’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 23%: 38% for violent crime and 18% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Arnold's Cove and everywhere else it polices.
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).