Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Paradise than in 67% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 104.2 and other offences for 72.4, against usual levels of 89.4 and 56. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. By contrast, from 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Paradise reported put it at C for safety: #14 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Annual rates stand at 17.9 violent incidents and 34.9 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the St. John's service area).
What stands out about safety in Paradise
Mischief: high for a town its size
Paradise records 9.4 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Paradise comes 33rd, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Near the Newfoundland and Labrador middle
The typical Newfoundland and Labrador town scores 81; Paradise, 81. 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 Paradise, 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: #14 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #1,643 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
What police record in Paradise, by type
Against the typical town its size, Paradise runs highest on mischief (9.4 per 1,000 against 3.7), break and enter (3.2 per 1,000 against 2.2) and sexual assault (1.1 per 1,000 against 0.8). Motor vehicle theft sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 4.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 38 | 0.2 | 41% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 144.7 | 0.6 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 28.7 | 0.1 | 30% |
| Robbery | 139.7 | 0.6 | 58% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 21.7 | 0.09 | 65% |
| Other violent violations | 37.3 | 0.2 | 21% |
| Breaking and entering | 724.7 | 3.2 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 41.3 | 0.2 | 73% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 320.7 | 1.4 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 152.3 | 0.7 | 18% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,457.3 | 15 | 15% |
| Mischief | 2,163.3 | 9.4 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 123 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,010.7 | 8.7 | 87% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 203 | 0.9 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 112 | 0.5 | 24% |
| Impaired driving | 458.7 | 2 | 56% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 80 | 0.3 | 45% |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Paradise comes 33rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springwater Ontario | 24,144 | 22.8 | 21.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 30 | Squamish British Columbia | 28,578 | 69.7 | 62.3 | C+ |
| 31 | Kingston Nova Scotia | 24,574 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 32 | Amherstburg Ontario | 27,509 | 78.6 | 94.5 | C+ |
| 33 | Paradise Newfoundland and Labrador | 26,155 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 34 | Mount Pearl Newfoundland and Labrador | 24,266 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| 35 | White Rock British Columbia | 25,057 | 82.6 | 87.2 | C |
| 36 | Grande Prairie County No. 1 Alberta | 25,883 | 87.3 | 94.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 200.6 | 214.9 | 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 Paradise in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
234,500 residents, about 4,110 violent incidents a year: the police area Paradise 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.
Add about 8,030 property crimes and 3,470 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Paradise’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (82.5); the low point came in 2025, at 79.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 69.5 in 2023 to 60 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Paradise | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79.2 | 60 |
| 2024 | 81.2 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 82.5 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Paradise, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Paradise
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 26,155 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Mount Pearl | 24,266 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's | 9,167 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Conception Bay South | 29,725 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| St. John's | 128,693 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Wabana | 2,008 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove | 1,005 | 90.3 | 68.4 | C |
Paradise has the lowest index of the places around it. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- 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.”
- A regional police service. The service that polices Paradise reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Paradise
Is Paradise safe?
Statistics Canada puts Paradise at 81 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 17.9 and property crimes at 34.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Paradise?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (15 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 11.5, and mischief, at 9.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Paradise?
Barely: 82.5 in 2023, 79.2 in 2025.
How much of Paradise’s crime do police solve?
31%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 33%. Violent crime is cleared at 45% and non-violent crime at 23%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Paradise together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).