Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Glovertown is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 63.9 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Taking everything together, Glovertown scores B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Year on year, 19.2 violent incidents and 21.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Glovertown detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Glovertown
Mischief: high for a town its size
Glovertown records 10.6 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 ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 54.2 in 2023 to 67.3 in 2025: that is Glovertown’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
A low clearance rate
Police cleared 18% of Glovertown’s crime, weighted by seriousness (33% of violent crime, 11% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Below Newfoundland and Labrador’s typical town
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Glovertown, 63.9. 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.
What’s behind Glovertown’s grade
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.
Glovertown’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Glovertown runs highest on mischief (10.6 per 1,000 against 4.2) and assault (7.7 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 20.7 | 2.7 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 5.3 | 0.7 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 22.3 | 3 | 13% |
| Mischief | 80.3 | 10.6 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 22 | 2.9 | 50% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 17.7 | 2.3 | 15% |
| Drug violations | 13.7 | 1.8 | 2% |
| Impaired driving | 41.3 | 5.5 | 18% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Glovertown’s index climbed 24%
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 70.2; 2023 was lightest, at 54.2. 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 | Glovertown | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 70.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 54.2 | 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 Glovertown, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Glovertown is part of, 7,560 residents, recorded about 150 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 160 property crimes and 130 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 Glovertown
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glovertown | 2,014 | 63.9 | 73.4 | B− |
| Gambo (15 km) | 1,859 | 63.9 | 73.4 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision E (36 km) | 2,632 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Centreville-Wareham-Trinity (39 km) | 1,100 | 49.5 | 56.1 | B+ |
Nearby, 1 of 2 places with their own figures have a lower index than Glovertown. Centreville-Wareham-Trinity, 38.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 49.5 to 63.9. Where a neighbour shares its police, it shares the figure too, and isn’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Glovertown has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 15–39 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Glovertown together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Glovertown
Is Glovertown safe?
Glovertown measures 63.9 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 19.2 violent incidents and 21.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Glovertown?
Police record mischief most, 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (8.9) and assault (7.7).
Is crime going up in Glovertown?
Up 24%: 54.2 in 2023, 67.3 in 2025.
How much of Glovertown’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 18% of crime (33% of violent crime, 11% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Glovertown 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).