Photo: ParsonsPhotographyNL · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime in Corner Brook is close to typical for Canadian towns
All told, Corner Brook grades B for safety (#3 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, recorded violent incidents ran at 13.0 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 26.8, against 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 58.8 over 2023–2025, against 66 for the typical Canadian 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Corner Brook service area.
What stands out about safety in Corner Brook
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Corner Brook stood at 75.4, by 2025 at 47.4. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 to 60. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Corner Brook records 8.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
Lighter than Newfoundland and Labrador’s middle
Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the median town comes to 81 on the index, against 58.8 in Corner Brook. Towns its size ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Corner Brook stands 21st, the lowest first. 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.
Corner Brook: B for safety, and why
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: #3 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #888 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Year by year in Corner Brook: down 37%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (75.4); 2025 was the lightest, at 47.4. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Corner Brook | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47.4 | 60 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 75.4 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Corner Brook, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Corner Brook, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Corner Brook runs highest on mischief (8.3 per 1,000 against 3.7). Break and enter and motor vehicle theft 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 | 8 | 0.3 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.7 | 0.3 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2.7 | 0.10 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.2 | 26% |
| Breaking and entering | 36 | 1.3 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.3 | 0.7 | 24% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 0.5 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 371.7 | 12.5 | 38% |
| Mischief | 241.3 | 8.3 | 10% |
| Weapons violations | 11 | 0.4 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 202 | 7.3 | 78% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 19.7 | 0.7 | 25% |
| Drug violations | 26.3 | 0.9 | 30% |
| Impaired driving | 71.7 | 2.4 | 75% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 5.3 | 0.2 | 70% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Around 360 violent incidents a year in the 34,700-resident police area around Corner Brook, 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 790 a year and other violations 430 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Corner Brook comes 21st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Port Colborne Ontario | 21,921 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 19 | Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario | 20,080 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 20 | Pelham Ontario | 19,980 | 56.1 | 72.6 | B |
| 21 | Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador | 20,549 | 58.8 | 70.5 | B |
| 22 | Pitt Meadows British Columbia | 20,892 | 60.8 | 59.8 | B− |
| 23 | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Quebec | 20,864 | 63 | 89.4 | B− |
| 24 | Baie-Comeau Quebec | 20,660 | 70 | 134 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lloydminster (Part) Alberta | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | 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 Corner Brook in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Crime in the places around Corner Brook
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corner Brook | 20,549 | 58.8 | 70.5 | B |
| Irishtown-Summerside | 1,296 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
| Massey Drive | 1,760 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
| Humber Arm South | 1,595 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
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
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared policing. Corner Brook is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Corner Brook
Is Corner Brook safe?
The short answer is an index of 58.8 for Corner Brook (2023–2025), built from 13 violent incidents and 26.8 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people is 66.
What is the most common crime in Corner Brook?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 12.5 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 11 and mischief at 8.3.
Is crime going up in Corner Brook?
No: the index fell 37%, from 75.4 in 2023 to 47.4 in 2025.
How much of Corner Brook’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 33% of crime (47% of violent crime, 26% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 33%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Corner Brook 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).