Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Fortune than in 62% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 69.3 and its non-violent half to 48.7, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Counting crime the police covering Fortune reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B for safety. The local count comes to 12.5 violent incidents and 13.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Harbour Breton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Fortune
Under the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Fortune, 54.2. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Fortune records 8.1 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 ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: B for Fortune
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Fortune itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 46 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.
Fortune’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Fortune runs highest on mischief (8.1 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 5 | 1.5 | 26% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3 | 0.9 | — |
| Mischief | 28 | 8.1 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 9 | 2.6 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4 | 1.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 8.7 | 2.5 | 20% |
| Impaired driving | 13.7 | 4 | 7% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2 | 0.6 | — |
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 closest to Fortune, 3,420 residents, recorded about 43 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 45 property crimes, plus 49 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
The index in Fortune, each year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 54.9 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 53.6. 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 | Fortune | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 53.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.9 | 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 Fortune, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Fortune
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortune | 1,249 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| Grand Bank (6 km) | 2,082 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| St. Lawrence (37 km) | 1,138 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| Harbour Breton (45 km) | 1,481 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| Burin (49 km) | 2,249 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
The places around Fortune all score higher on the index. 2 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. Distances here run 6–49 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Fortune.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Read with care. About 3,415 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Fortune
Is Fortune safe?
Its police recorded 12.5 violent incidents and 13.2 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Fortune a Crime Severity Index of 54.2. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Fortune?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 8.1, other Criminal Code offences at 6.3 and assault at 5.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Fortune?
Barely: 54.9 in 2023, 54.2 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Fortune’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 33%: 51% for violent crime and 23% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Fortune 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).