Photo: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office · Public domainTrinity Bay North has more crime per resident than 75% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 92.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On top of that, on crime the police covering Trinity Bay North reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C for safety. Recorded violent incidents ran at 16.5 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 34.8, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 87.6 then 91.6.
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. Measured across the Bonavista detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Trinity Bay North
Mischief: high for a town its size
Trinity Bay North records 18.9 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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Trinity Bay North scores 63.2 for violence and 105.4 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 19% for Trinity Bay North (41% violent, 14% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to Newfoundland and Labrador’s typical town
Within Newfoundland and Labrador, the median town comes to 81 on the index, against 92.8 in Trinity Bay North. 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 Trinity Bay North’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 15 km from Trinity Bay North, not to the town.
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 Trinity Bay North, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Trinity Bay North runs highest on drug offences (3.8 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (18.9 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (6.6 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.09 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 48.7 | 6.6 | 16% |
| Possession of stolen property | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 6.3 | 0.9 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 39 | 5.3 | 15% |
| Mischief | 139.3 | 18.9 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 37.7 | 5.1 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.4 | 31% |
| Drug violations | 28.3 | 3.8 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 37 | 5 | 19% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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.
About 120 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Trinity Bay North (7,360 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 260 property crimes, plus 180 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Trinity Bay North, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 99.2, with 2023 the lightest at 87.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Trinity Bay North | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 87.6 | 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 Trinity Bay North, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Trinity Bay North
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Bay North | 1,692 | 92.8 | 63.2 | C |
| Bonavista (15 km) | 3,293 | 92.8 | 63.2 | C |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision E (61 km) | 2,632 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision G (63 km) | 1,640 | 108 | 83.3 | C− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision L (65 km) | 1,248 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision K (68 km) | 1,116 | 64.2 | 58.5 | B− |
3 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Trinity Bay North. The nearest of them, Division No. 7, Subdivision E (60.8 km away), scores 64.2 against 92.8. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 15–68 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Trinity Bay North.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- 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. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Trinity Bay North
Is Trinity Bay North safe?
With 16.5 violent incidents and 34.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Trinity Bay North comes to 92.8 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Trinity Bay North?
Mischief is the most common, at 18.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (12.3) and Criminal Code traffic offences (7).
Is crime going up in Trinity Bay North?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 87.6 to 91.6.
How much of Trinity Bay North’s crime do police solve?
About 19% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 41% of violent and 14% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Trinity Bay North 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).