Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Recorded crime per resident is lower in Labrador City than in 95% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 37.6 for violence and 27.4 for everything else (normally 85.7 and 62.8). Measured on crime the police covering Labrador City reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A+: #1 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Out of every 1,000 residents, 6.9 violent incidents and 9.6 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size.
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. Measured across the Labrador service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Labrador City
Under the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the median town comes to 81 on the index, against 30.1 in Labrador City. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Labrador City stands 6th, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Labrador City’s police clear 21%, 32% of violent crime and 16% of the rest. Questions ↓
More severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Labrador City stood at 28.9, by 2025 at 33.5. Over the same years the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A+ for Labrador City, and how it is built
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.
Its place: #1 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #110 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What police record in Labrador City, by type
Assault 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 | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 6.3 | 0.6 | 27% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21 | 2 | 32% |
| Mischief | 42.3 | 3.9 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 9 | 0.8 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Drug violations | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 24 | 2.2 | 74% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Labrador City is 6th of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alnwick/Haldimand Ontario | 8,197 | 21.6 | 26.9 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | Otonabee-South Monaghan Ontario | 8,084 | 26 | 27.2 | A+ |
| 4 | Whitewater Region Ontario | 7,899 | 29.1 | 36.6 | A+ |
| 5 | Taber Alberta | 8,009 | 29.4 | 30.1 | A+ |
| 6 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 30.1 | 37.6 | A+ |
| 7 | Bayham Ontario | 7,935 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 8 | Chatsworth Ontario | 7,770 | 32 | 38.1 | A |
| 9 | Augusta Ontario | 7,767 | 34 | 40.2 | A |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Labrador City in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Labrador City’s index rose 16% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (33.5); 2024 was the low point, at 27.9. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Labrador City | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 27.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 28.9 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Labrador City, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 74 violent incidents a year in the 10,800-resident police area around Labrador City, 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 100 property crimes, plus 63 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Labrador City
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labrador City | 7,965 | 30.1 | 37.6 | A+ |
| Wabush (6 km) | 2,105 | 30.1 | 37.6 | A+ |
| Fermont (20 km) | 2,129 | 128.1 | 264.9 | D |
Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 6–20 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Labrador City.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Shared policing. Labrador City is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
Questions about safety in Labrador City
Is Labrador City safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Labrador City comes to 30.1. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 6.9 violent incidents and 9.6 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Labrador City?
Top of the list is mischief (3.9 per 1,000 residents a year); Criminal Code traffic offences, at 2.8, and assault, at 2.8, follow.
Is crime going up in Labrador City?
Up 16%: 28.9 in 2023, 33.5 in 2025.
How much of Labrador City’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 21% of crime (32% of violent crime, 16% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Labrador City 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).