Clarke's Beach records more crime per resident than 62% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had climbed to 71.8, up from 67.3 in 2023. On top of that, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Clarke's Beach reported put it at C+ for safety. None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 74.1 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Bay Roberts detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Clarke's Beach
Mischief: high for a town its size
Clarke's Beach 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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Violent crime scores 64.3 on Clarke's Beach’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 78.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 21% of crime in Clarke's Beach ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 51% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the Newfoundland and Labrador middle
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Clarke's Beach, 74.1. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The C+ for Clarke's Beach, and how it is built
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 6 km off, which covers its own area rather than Clarke's Beach.
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.
Which crimes make up Clarke's Beach’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Clarke's Beach runs highest on mischief (16.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.3 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 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 | 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 people or more.
Clarke's Beach, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 83.2; 2023 was the lightest, at 67.3. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Clarke's Beach | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 83.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 67.3 | 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 Clarke's Beach, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 250 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Clarke's Beach (18,600 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 550 property crimes and 360 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 Clarke's Beach
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarke's Beach | 1,555 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M | 1,270 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Bay Roberts | 6,407 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Spaniard's Bay | 2,664 | 74.1 | 64.3 | C+ |
| Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview | 1,180 | 90.3 | 68.4 | C |
| Upper Island Cove | 1,553 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Holyrood | 2,749 | 90.3 | 68.4 | C |
The places around Clarke's Beach all score higher on the index. The table leaves out 3 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Clarke's Beach
Is Clarke's Beach safe?
With 13.6 violent incidents and 30 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Clarke's Beach comes to 74.1 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 Clarke's Beach?
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 Clarke's Beach?
It has: 67.3 in 2023 became 71.8 by 2025, a rise of 7%.
How much of Clarke's Beach’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 21% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 51% of violent and 12% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Clarke's Beach 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).