Photo: KDBelliveau · CC BY-SA 4.0Crime per resident in Burin runs higher than in 74% of Canadian towns
In a usual year, 21.3 violent incidents and 29.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Violence accounts for an index of 93 and other offences for 90.8, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. On the record of crime the police covering Burin reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C for safety.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Burin Peninsula detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Burin
Mischief: high for a town its size
Burin records 16.9 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 ↓
Near the Newfoundland and Labrador middle
Burin’s index of 90.8 compares with 81 for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador. Towns its size ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Burin’s two halves part ways: 93 for violence (typical 86.4) and 90.8 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 25% of Burin’s crime, weighted by seriousness (49% of violent crime, 15% 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.
Burin: C for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 10 km from Burin, 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.
Burin’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Burin runs highest on drug offences (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (16.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.5). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 10.3 | 0.6 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8 | 0.4 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8 | 0.4 | 25% |
| Breaking and entering | 67 | 3.6 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10.3 | 0.6 | 26% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 90.7 | 4.8 | 26% |
| Mischief | 316.7 | 16.9 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 0.4 | 61% |
| Administration of justice violations | 138 | 7.4 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34.7 | 1.9 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 64 | 3.4 | 6% |
| Impaired driving | 73.7 | 3.9 | 33% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
About 400 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Burin (18,500 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.
And about 560 property crimes, plus 440 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Year by year in Burin: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 101; 2023 was the lightest, at 85.1. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Burin | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 101 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 85.1 | 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 Burin, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Burin
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burin | 2,249 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| Marystown (11 km) | 5,196 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| St. Lawrence (23 km) | 1,138 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| Grand Bank (44 km) | 2,082 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| Fortune (49 km) | 1,249 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Burin. Closest is Grand Bank, 44.1 km away, at 54.2 to 90.8 here. Same police, same number: 2 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Burin with figures are 11–49 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Burin
Is Burin safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Burin’s Crime Severity Index stands at 90.8 for 2023–2025. Its police record 21.3 violent incidents and 29.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Burin?
Most often it is mischief: 16.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 14.4 and assault at 9.2.
Is crime going up in Burin?
Not much: the index went from 85.1 in 2023 to 86.4 in 2025.
How much of Burin’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 25%: 49% for violent crime and 15% 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 Burin 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).