Recorded crime per resident is higher in Massey Drive than in 62% of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 75.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. Police cleared 39% of incidents, weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Measured on crime the police covering Massey Drive reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+. On top of that, typical years here bring 13.6 violent incidents plus 20.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in 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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Corner Brook detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Massey Drive
Mischief: high for a town its size
Massey Drive 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 ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Massey Drive’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 ↓
Near the Newfoundland and Labrador middle
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Massey Drive, 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.
What sits behind Massey Drive’s C+
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Massey Drive itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 5 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.
What police record in Massey Drive, by type
Against the typical town its size, Massey Drive 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.
Around 130 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Massey Drive (9,790 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.
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 Massey Drive
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massey Drive | 1,760 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
| Corner Brook | 20,549 | 58.8 | 70.5 | B |
| Irishtown-Summerside | 1,296 | 75.2 | 71.4 | C+ |
2 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- 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. 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.
Questions about safety in Massey Drive
Is Massey Drive safe?
Massey Drive scores 75.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 13.6 violent incidents and 20.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Massey Drive?
Top of the list is mischief (12.5 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 10.9, and assault, at 5.9, follow.
How much of Massey Drive’s crime do police solve?
39%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 67% and non-violent crime at 29%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Massey Drive 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).