Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainDivision No. 7, Subdivision K is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
By 2025 the index had climbed to 68.7, up from 63.5 in 2023. Graded on crime the police covering Division No. 7, Subdivision K reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores B− for safety. Still, the local count comes to 11.4 violent incidents and 24.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 64.2 over 2023–2025, against 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Clarenville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Division No. 7, Subdivision K
Mischief: high for a town its size
Division No. 7, Subdivision K records 13.1 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 on property and other crime
Violent crime scores 58.5 on Division No. 7, Subdivision K’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 67.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
Under the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Division No. 7, Subdivision K, 64.2. Towns its size ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 23% of crime in Division No. 7, Subdivision K ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 38% of violent crime and 18% 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.
What’s behind Division No. 7, Subdivision K’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Division No. 7, Subdivision K has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 7 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. 7, Subdivision K’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Division No. 7, Subdivision K runs highest on mischief (13.1 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault 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 | 5 | 0.3 | 26% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.3 | 80% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 34 | 1.9 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14.3 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 76.7 | 4.2 | 22% |
| Mischief | 237.3 | 13.1 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 9.3 | 0.5 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 77.3 | 4.3 | 67% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 23.3 | 1.3 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 50.3 | 2.8 | 12% |
| Impaired driving | 93 | 5.1 | 25% |
| 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.
Division No. 7, Subdivision K, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 68.7, with 2024 the lightest at 60.4. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Division No. 7, Subdivision K | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 60.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 63.5 | 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. 7, Subdivision K, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Division No. 7, Subdivision K, 18,200 residents, recorded about 210 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 440 property crimes, plus 360 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Division No. 7, Subdivision K
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 7, Subdivision K | 1,116 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Clarenville | 7,441 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision L | 1,248 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision M | 1,878 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision E | 2,632 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
4 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. 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.
Questions about safety in Division No. 7, Subdivision K
Is Division No. 7, Subdivision K safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Division No. 7, Subdivision K comes to 64.2. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 11.4 violent incidents and 24.1 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Division No. 7, Subdivision K?
Top of the list is mischief (13.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10.4, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 6, follow.
Is crime going up in Division No. 7, Subdivision K?
Yes: the index rose 8%, from 63.5 in 2023 to 68.7 in 2025.
How much of Division No. 7, Subdivision K’s crime do police solve?
23%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 38% and non-violent crime at 18%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Division No. 7, Subdivision K and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).