Photo: Millerman68 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Grand Bank than in 62% of Canadian towns
In a usual year, 12.5 violent incidents and 13.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Grand Bank reported put it at B for safety. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 69.3 and 48.7.
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. Shared with the rest of the Harbour Breton detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Grand Bank
Under the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
Set among Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, whose median is 81, Grand Bank scores 54.2. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Grand Bank 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.
What’s behind Grand Bank’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 42 km from Grand Bank, 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 Grand Bank, by type
Against the typical town its size, Grand Bank runs highest on drug offences (2.5 per 1,000 against 0.7) and 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.
Around 43 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Grand Bank (3,420 residents), 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.
Three years of Grand Bank’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
Nothing since 2023 has matched that year’s 54.9; the lightest was 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 | Grand Bank | 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 Grand Bank, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Grand Bank
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Bank | 2,082 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| Fortune (6 km) | 1,249 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| St. Lawrence (34 km) | 1,138 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| Harbour Breton (42 km) | 1,481 | 54.2 | 69.3 | B |
| Marystown (44 km) | 5,196 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
| Burin (44 km) | 2,249 | 90.8 | 93 | C |
Grand Bank has the lowest index of the places around it. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Grand Bank with figures are 6–44 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Small numbers. 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.”
- 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.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Grand Bank
Is Grand Bank safe?
Grand Bank’s Crime Severity Index is 54.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 12.5 violent incidents and 13.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Grand Bank?
Top of the list is mischief (8.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.3, and assault, at 5.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Grand Bank?
The index stayed close to where it was, 54.9 in 2023 and 54.2 in 2025. The police area is small or partly reported, so treat the change with care.
How much of Grand Bank’s crime do police solve?
33%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 51% and non-violent crime at 23%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Grand Bank 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).