Photo: Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Humber Arm South than in 62% of Canadian towns
Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 39% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%). Even so, on the record of crime the police covering Humber Arm South reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety. Behind the grade sit 13.6 violent incidents and 20.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 75.2 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Corner Brook detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Humber Arm South
Mischief: high for a town its size
Humber Arm South records 12.5 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 ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Humber Arm South’s index splits into violent crime, 71.4 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 77.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Humber Arm South, 75.2. 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.
The C+ for Humber Arm South, and how it is built
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 15 km from Humber Arm South, 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 Humber Arm South, by type
Against the typical town its size, Humber Arm South runs highest on drug offences (4.1 per 1,000 against 0.7) and mischief (12.5 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13 | 1.3 | 38% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10 | 1 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 25 | 2.6 | 16% |
| Mischief | 122 | 12.5 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.5 | 40% |
| Administration of justice violations | 44 | 4.5 | 73% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15 | 1.5 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 40 | 4.1 | 38% |
| Impaired driving | 37 | 3.8 | 30% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.1 | — |
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 Humber Arm South, 9,790 residents, recorded about 130 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.
Property crime adds about 200 a year and other violations 190 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Humber Arm South
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humber Arm South | 1,595 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
| Irishtown-Summerside | 1,296 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
| Corner Brook | 20,549 | 58.8 | 70.5 | B |
Its police also cover 2 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. 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 Humber Arm South
Is Humber Arm South safe?
Statistics Canada puts Humber Arm South at 75.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 13.6 and property crimes at 20.5 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Humber Arm South?
Police record mischief most, 12.5 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (10.9) and assault (5.9).
How much of Humber Arm South’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 39% of crime (67% of violent crime, 29% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Humber Arm South and everywhere else it polices.
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).