Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainDivision No. 4, Subdivision B has more crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
Police cleared 26% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, the local count comes to 24.2 violent incidents and 55.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On crime the police covering Division No. 4, Subdivision B reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D for safety. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 115.3 and 134.3.
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. Measured across the Bay St. George detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Division No. 4, Subdivision B
Mischief: high for a town its size
Division No. 4, Subdivision B records 27.8 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 ↓
Heavier than Newfoundland and Labrador’s middle
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Division No. 4, Subdivision B, 128.1. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s index splits into violent crime, 115.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 134.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: D for Division No. 4, Subdivision B
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 41 km from Division No. 4, Subdivision B, not to the town.
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.
What police record in Division No. 4, Subdivision B, by type
Against the typical town its size, Division No. 4, Subdivision B runs highest on mischief (27.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (4.6 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (5.4 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.4 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 14 | 0.8 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 100 | 5.4 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.3 | 38% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 250.7 | 13.6 | 27% |
| Mischief | 511.3 | 27.8 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.5 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 229 | 12.4 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 46 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Drug violations | 85 | 4.6 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 102 | 5.5 | 30% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Year by year in Division No. 4, Subdivision B: up 14%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 138.2, and 2023 lowest at 121.1. 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 | Division No. 4, Subdivision B | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 125 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 121.1 | 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 Division No. 4, Subdivision B, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Division No. 4, Subdivision B, 18,400 residents: around 450 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.
Add about 1,020 property crimes and 680 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 Division No. 4, Subdivision B
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 4, Subdivision B | 1,184 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| St. George's (34 km) | 1,181 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Kippens (40 km) | 1,927 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Stephenville (41 km) | 6,840 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Stephenville Crossing (43 km) | 1,731 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Division No. 4, Subdivision E (44 km) | 1,681 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
5 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 34–44 km from Division No. 4, Subdivision B.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Division No. 4, Subdivision B
Is Division No. 4, Subdivision B safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 128.1 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Division No. 4, Subdivision B stands, with 24.2 violent and 55.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Division No. 4, Subdivision B?
Mischief is the most common, at 27.8 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (24.5) and theft under $5,000 (13.6).
Is crime going up in Division No. 4, Subdivision B?
It went up 14% between 2023 and 2025, from 121.1 to 138.2.
How much of Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 26% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 52% of violent crime and 17% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Division No. 4, Subdivision B 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).