Photo: WayneRay · Public domainDivision No. 1, Subdivision G has more crime per resident than 81% of Canadian towns
In 2023 the index stood at 101.3; it rose to 108.1 in 2025. Split in two, the index gives 83.3 for violence and 118.8 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). On the record of crime the police covering Division No. 1, Subdivision G reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety. Add to that, each year brought 20.3 violent incidents and 53.1 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Harbour Grace detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Division No. 1, Subdivision G
More people here than live here
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Division No. 1, Subdivision G, yet 38% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Division No. 1, Subdivision G records 31 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 83.3 on Division No. 1, Subdivision G’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 118.8 against 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 15% of crime in Division No. 1, Subdivision G ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 34% of violent crime and 11% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Division No. 1, Subdivision G’s C− for safety
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Division No. 1, Subdivision G itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 35 km away.
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 Division No. 1, Subdivision G’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Division No. 1, Subdivision G runs highest on mischief (31 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.4 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (9.7 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.5 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 95 | 5.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 0.6 | 26% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 42.7 | 2.4 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 157 | 9 | 15% |
| Mischief | 541 | 31 | 3% |
| Weapons violations | 11.7 | 0.7 | 28% |
| Administration of justice violations | 121 | 6.9 | 39% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34.3 | 2 | 21% |
| Drug violations | 50 | 2.9 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 96 | 5.5 | 16% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
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.
The detachment nearest Division No. 1, Subdivision G, 17,500 residents: around 360 violent incidents a year, 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 930 property crimes, plus 520 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Division No. 1, Subdivision G, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 114.7, 2024 topped the three years, and 2023 was lowest at 101.3. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Division No. 1, Subdivision G | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 114.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101.3 | 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 Division No. 1, Subdivision G, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Division No. 1, Subdivision G
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 1, Subdivision G | 1,640 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Victoria (24 km) | 1,837 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Carbonear (27 km) | 5,041 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Pouch Cove (31 km) | 2,270 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Harbour Grace (32 km) | 2,872 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Upper Island Cove (35 km) | 1,553 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
5 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. The nearest places to Division No. 1, Subdivision G with figures are 24–35 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- The clearance rate. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Division No. 1, Subdivision G
Is Division No. 1, Subdivision G safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Division No. 1, Subdivision G’s Crime Severity Index stands at 108 for 2023–2025. Its police record 20.3 violent incidents and 53.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Division No. 1, Subdivision G?
Top of the list is mischief (31 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 17, and assault, at 9.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Division No. 1, Subdivision G?
Up 7%: 101.3 in 2023, 108.1 in 2025.
How much of Division No. 1, Subdivision G’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 15% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 34% of violent and 11% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Division No. 1, Subdivision G 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).