Photo: Haydn Blackey · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Pouch Cove records more crime than four in five Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 83.3 and 118.8. Its 3 neighbours with figures all record less crime per resident. Graded on crime the police covering Pouch Cove reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety. Year on year, 20.3 violent incidents and 53.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Harbour Grace detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Pouch Cove
Mischief: high for a town its size
Pouch Cove records 31 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 ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Pouch Cove scores 83.3 for violence and 118.8 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 15% for Pouch Cove (34% violent, 11% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Over the Newfoundland and Labrador norm
Set among Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, whose median is 81, Pouch Cove scores 108. 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.
Inside Pouch Cove’s C− for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 36 km off, which covers its own area rather than Pouch Cove.
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 Pouch Cove, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Pouch Cove runs highest on mischief (31 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (2.9 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (5.4 per 1,000 against 2.5). 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 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.5 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 95 | 5.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 0.6 | 26% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 42.7 | 2.4 | 10% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.3 | 12% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 157 | 9 | 15% |
| Mischief | 541 | 31 | 3% |
| Weapons violations | 11.7 | 0.7 | 28% |
| Administration of justice violations | 121 | 6.9 | 39% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34.3 | 2 | 21% |
| Drug violations | 50 | 2.9 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 96 | 5.5 | 16% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.3 | 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 360 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Pouch Cove (17,500 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.
And about 930 property crimes, plus 520 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Pouch Cove’s index rose 7% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 114.7 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 101.3 in 2023. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Pouch Cove | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 114.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101.3 | 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 Pouch Cove, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Pouch Cove
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouch Cove | 2,270 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Flatrock | 1,938 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Torbay | 8,297 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove | 2,601 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's | 9,167 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| Wabana | 2,008 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
The places around Pouch Cove all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Torbay (11.6 km away), scores 81 against 108. The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. 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.”
Questions about safety in Pouch Cove
Is Pouch Cove safe?
Pouch Cove measures 108 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 20.3 violent incidents and 53.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Pouch Cove?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 31, other Criminal Code offences at 17 and assault at 9.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Pouch Cove?
Up 7%: 101.3 in 2023, 108.1 in 2025.
How much of Pouch Cove’s crime do police solve?
About 15% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 34% of violent and 11% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Pouch Cove 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).