Photo: Shhewitt · CC BY-SA 4.0Lewisporte sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Lewisporte grades B− for safety overall (#6 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 14.0 violent incidents and 24.4 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Within Newfoundland and Labrador, half the towns score under 81. On top of that, its Crime Severity Index averaged 66.2 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Lewisporte detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Lewisporte
More severe than in 2023
Lewisporte’s index went from 52.2 in 2023 to 67.5 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Lewisporte records 10.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Police clear less here
Police cleared 17% of Lewisporte’s crime, weighted by seriousness (40% of violent crime, 9% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Lower than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Lewisporte stands 16th, the lowest first. 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 Lewisporte’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.
Its place: #6 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #1,018 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.
Year by year in Lewisporte: up 29%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 79.1, with 2023 the lightest at 52.2. For the typical Canadian town its size, 2023 gave 74.3 and 2025 gave 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Lewisporte | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.5 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 79.1 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 52.2 | 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 Lewisporte, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Lewisporte’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Lewisporte runs highest on mischief (10.3 per 1,000 against 4.9), break and enter (5.6 per 1,000 against 2.8) and drug offences (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.7). Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 47 | 5.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 3.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 45.7 | 5.4 | 12% |
| Mischief | 86.7 | 10.3 | 2% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 13 | 1.5 | 56% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14 | 1.7 | 16% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 1.5 | 6% |
| Impaired driving | 34 | 4 | 20% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 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 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Lewisporte stands 16th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Quebec | 3,400 | 28.2 | 46.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 13 | Electoral Area B, North Okanagan British Columbia | 3,415 | 61.3 | 74.1 | B− |
| 14 | Thurso Quebec | 3,439 | 61.7 | 107.3 | B− |
| 15 | Richmond County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 3,444 | 65.2 | 90.1 | B− |
| 16 | Lewisporte Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,405 | 66.2 | 61.2 | B− |
| 17 | Channel-Port aux Basques Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,379 | 66.8 | 62.8 | B− |
| 18 | Port Hawkesbury Nova Scotia | 3,442 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| 19 | Inverness County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 3,314 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Placentia Newfoundland and Labrador | 3,374 | 79.6 | 65.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Inuvik Northwest Territories | 3,337 | 718.3 | 807.9 | 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 Lewisporte in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
8,430 residents, about 120 violent incidents a year: the police area Lewisporte belongs to, 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 210 property crimes, plus 110 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 Lewisporte
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewisporte | 3,405 | 66.2 | 61.2 | B− |
| Botwood (25 km) | 2,884 | 66.2 | 61.2 | B− |
| Bishop's Falls (41 km) | 3,162 | 92.1 | 84.1 | C |
| Gander (45 km) | 12,707 | 97.2 | 80.6 | C− |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision H (45 km) | 1,798 | 78 | 63.9 | C+ |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision L (47 km) | 2,724 | 73.3 | 54.3 | C+ |
The places around Lewisporte all score higher on the index. 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 25–47 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Lewisporte.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared with the countryside. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Lewisporte’s are shared with its surroundings.
- The index’s scale. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- What clearance means. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Lewisporte
Is Lewisporte safe?
Against a typical 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Lewisporte’s Crime Severity Index stands at 66.2 for 2023–2025. Its police record 14 violent incidents and 24.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Lewisporte?
Mischief is the most common, at 10.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (7.5) and other Criminal Code offences (6.4).
Is crime going up in Lewisporte?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 29%, to 67.5 from 52.2.
How much of Lewisporte’s crime do police solve?
17%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 40% and non-violent crime at 9%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Lewisporte 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).