Photo: Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0Bay Roberts has more crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 74.1 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Still, its 3 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Measured on crime the police covering Bay Roberts reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+: #10 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Per 1,000 residents a year, 13.6 violent incidents and 30.0 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Bay Roberts detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Bay Roberts
Drug offences: high for a town its size
Bay Roberts records 2.7 incidents of drug offences per 1,000 residents a year, against 0.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Bay Roberts’s two halves part ways: 64.3 for violence (typical 85.7) and 78.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Bay Roberts stands 26th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
Police cleared 21% of Bay Roberts’s crime, weighted by seriousness (51% of violent crime, 12% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Bay Roberts’s C+
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.
Its place: #10 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #1,555 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Bay Roberts’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Bay Roberts runs highest on drug offences (2.7 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (16.9 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.3 per 1,000 against 2.8). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 60.7 | 3.3 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.4 | 21% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 30 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 89.7 | 4.9 | 14% |
| Mischief | 312 | 16.9 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.3 | 53% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61 | 3.3 | 45% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 18.7 | 1 | 21% |
| Drug violations | 49 | 2.7 | 1% |
| Impaired driving | 96 | 5.2 | 22% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Bay Roberts places 26th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 23 | Humboldt Saskatchewan | 6,551 | 71.5 | 72.5 | C+ |
| 24 | Kings County, Subdivision D Nova Scotia | 6,517 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 25 | Lac-Brome Quebec | 6,307 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 26 | Bay Roberts Newfoundland and Labrador | 6,407 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| 27 | Electoral Area C, Peace River British Columbia | 6,344 | 81.8 | 82.5 | C |
| 28 | Barrhead County No. 11 Alberta | 6,186 | 81.9 | 73.6 | C |
| 29 | Pictou County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,575 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Bay Roberts in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Bay Roberts’s index rose 7% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 83.2, with 2023 the lightest at 67.3. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bay Roberts | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.8 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 83.2 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 67.3 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Bay Roberts, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 250 violent incidents a year in the 18,600-resident police area around Bay Roberts, 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 550 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 Bay Roberts
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Roberts | 6,407 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Spaniard's Bay | 2,664 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Upper Island Cove | 1,553 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Clarke's Beach | 1,555 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Harbour Grace | 2,872 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M | 1,270 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Carbonear | 5,041 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Bay Roberts. 3 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
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.
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Bay Roberts is one part.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Bay Roberts
Is Bay Roberts safe?
Its police recorded 13.6 violent incidents and 30 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Bay Roberts a Crime Severity Index of 74.1. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Bay Roberts?
Most often it is mischief: 16.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 9 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 7.5.
Is crime going up in Bay Roberts?
It has: 67.3 in 2023 became 71.8 by 2025, a rise of 7%.
How much of Bay Roberts’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 21% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 51% of violent crime and 12% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Bay Roberts together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).