Photo: Trevcars1 · CC BY-SA 4.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Stephenville Crossing than in 88% of Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Stephenville Crossing reported put it at D for safety. Add to that, recorded violent incidents ran at 24.2 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 55.4, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Of the two halves, violence comes to 115.3 and other offences to 134.3, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. In 2023 the index stood at 121.1; it rose to 138.2 in 2025.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Bay St. George detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Stephenville Crossing
Mischief: high for a town its size
Stephenville Crossing records 27.8 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 ↓
Higher than most of Newfoundland and Labrador
Set among Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, whose median is 81, Stephenville Crossing scores 128.1. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Stephenville Crossing’s index splits into violent crime, 115.3 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 134.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: D for Stephenville Crossing
How sure: Less sure, as Stephenville Crossing has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 11 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 Stephenville Crossing, by type
Against the typical town its size, Stephenville Crossing runs highest on mischief (27.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (4.6 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (5.4 per 1,000 against 2.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.4 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.7 | 0.4 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.3 | 70% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 14 | 0.8 | 41% |
| Breaking and entering | 100 | 5.4 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 0.3 | 38% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.7 | 1.5 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 21% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 250.7 | 13.6 | 27% |
| Mischief | 511.3 | 27.8 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 9 | 0.5 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 229 | 12.4 | 72% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 46 | 2.5 | 37% |
| Drug violations | 85 | 4.6 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 102 | 5.5 | 30% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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 people or more.
Stephenville Crossing, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 138.2; the lightest was 2023, at 121.1. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Stephenville Crossing | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 125 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 121.1 | 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 Stephenville Crossing, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Stephenville Crossing, 18,400 residents: around 450 violent incidents a year, 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 1,020 a year and other violations 680 (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 Stephenville Crossing
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephenville Crossing | 1,731 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| St. George's | 1,181 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Stephenville | 6,840 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
| Kippens | 1,927 | 128.1 | 115.3 | D |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Stephenville Crossing
Is Stephenville Crossing safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 128.1 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Stephenville Crossing stands, with 24.2 violent and 55.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Stephenville Crossing?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 27.8, other Criminal Code offences at 24.5 and theft under $5,000 at 13.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Stephenville Crossing?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 14%, to 138.2 from 121.1.
How much of Stephenville Crossing’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 26% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 52% of violent crime and 17% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Stephenville Crossing 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).