Photo: James Cullin · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Twillingate records more crime than 65% of Canadian towns
Year on year, 11.4 violent incidents and 25.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. By contrast, on the record of crime the police covering Twillingate reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C+ for safety. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 78 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Twillingate detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Twillingate
Mischief: high for a town its size
Twillingate records 11.4 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 than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Twillingate stood at 58.7, by 2025 at 95.7. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Twillingate’s index splits into violent crime, 63.9 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 84.3 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Twillingate’s police clear 23%, 58% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Twillingate: C+ for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Twillingate: up 63%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The latest year was its heaviest: 2025, at 95.7, with 2023 the lightest at 58.7. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Twillingate | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 79.7 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 58.7 | 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 Twillingate, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Twillingate, by type
Against the typical town its size, Twillingate runs highest on drug offences (2.8 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (11.4 per 1,000 against 4.2) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.5). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 19 | 3.6 | 14% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4 | 0.8 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 4.2 | 15% |
| Mischief | 59.7 | 11.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 15.7 | 3 | 40% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 15.7 | 3 | 17% |
| Drug violations | 14.7 | 2.8 | 5% |
| Impaired driving | 17.7 | 3.4 | 7% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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.
About 60 violent incidents a year across the police area of 5,150 residents that includes Twillingate, 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 130 property crimes, plus 90 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Twillingate
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twillingate | 2,044 | 78 | 63.9 | C+ |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision H (10 km) | 1,798 | 78 | 63.9 | C+ |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision L (41 km) | 2,724 | 73.3 | 54.3 | C+ |
| Fogo Island (41 km) | 1,979 | 73.3 | 54.3 | C+ |
The places around Twillingate all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Division No. 8, Subdivision L (40.8 km away), scores 73.3 against 78. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Twillingate with figures are 10–41 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Twillingate’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
Questions about safety in Twillingate
Is Twillingate safe?
Twillingate’s Crime Severity Index is 78 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 11.4 violent incidents and 25.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Twillingate?
Police record mischief most, 11.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (10) and assault (5.1).
Is crime going up in Twillingate?
It went up 63% between 2023 and 2025, from 58.7 to 95.7.
How much of Twillingate’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 23% of crime (58% of violent crime, 12% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Twillingate 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).