Kippens sees more crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 115.3 for violence and 134.3 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Annual rates stand at 24.2 violent incidents and 55.4 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering Kippens reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety. Add to that, its Crime Severity Index climbed from 121.1 in 2023 to 138.2 by 2025.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Bay St. George detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Kippens
Mischief: high for a town its size
Kippens records 27.8 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 ↓
Over the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
Kippens’s index of 128.1 compares with 81 for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Kippens scores 115.3 for violence and 134.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. 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 Kippens’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Kippens has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 3 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.
Crime in Kippens, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Kippens runs highest on mischief (27.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (4.6 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (5.4 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.4 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 14 | 0.8 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 100 | 5.4 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.3 | 38% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 250.7 | 13.6 | 27% |
| Mischief | 511.3 | 27.8 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.5 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 229 | 12.4 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 46 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Drug violations | 85 | 4.6 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 102 | 5.5 | 30% |
| 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.
Kippens, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 138.2; the lightest was 2023, at 121.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kippens | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 125 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 121.1 | 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 Kippens, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Kippens, 18,400 residents, recorded about 450 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 1,020 a year and other violations 680 (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 Kippens
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kippens | 1,927 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Stephenville | 6,840 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Stephenville Crossing | 1,731 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| St. George's | 1,181 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
Same police, same number: 3 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Kippens
Is Kippens safe?
Police-reported crime in Kippens scores 128.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 24.2 violent incidents and 55.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Kippens?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 27.8, other Criminal Code offences at 24.5 and theft under $5,000 at 13.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Kippens?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 14%, to 138.2 from 121.1.
How much of Kippens’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 26% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 52% of violent and 17% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Kippens 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).