Photo: Patricia · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Pond Inlet records more crime than almost every Canadian town
Violence accounts for an index of 1,191.1 and other offences for 473.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Scored on crime the police covering Pond Inlet reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on D− for safety. Per 1,000 residents a year, 220.0 violent incidents and 367.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Pond Inlet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Pond Inlet
Mischief: high for a town its size
Pond Inlet records 332.8 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 ↓
Police clear more here
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 61% for Pond Inlet (73% violent, 49% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Violence weighs more than the rest
Pond Inlet scores 1,191.1 for violence and 473.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 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.
What sits behind Pond Inlet’s D−
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 Pond Inlet, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Pond Inlet runs highest on mischief (332.8 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (149.9 per 1,000 against 6.7) and drug offences (8.2 per 1,000 against 0.7). Theft under $5,000 and fraud sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 12.3 | 7.1 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 19.3 | 11.1 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3 | 1.7 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.6 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 4 | 81% |
| Breaking and entering | 26.3 | 15.1 | 47% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 7.7 | 4.4 | 30% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 15 | 8.6 | 45% |
| Mischief | 579.3 | 332.8 | 52% |
| Weapons violations | 4.3 | 2.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 94.7 | 54.3 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.3 | 6 | 68% |
| Drug violations | 14.3 | 8.2 | 40% |
| Impaired driving | 46.7 | 26.8 | 36% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.2 | — |
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 380 violent incidents a year in the 1,770-resident police area around Pond Inlet, 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 640 a year and other violations 370 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Pond Inlet’s index year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 723.4, against a low of 634.4 in 2024. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pond Inlet | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 666.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 634.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 723.4 | 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 Pond Inlet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Few people behind the figures. About 1,765 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A detachment’s area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Pond Inlet is one part.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Pond Inlet
Is Pond Inlet safe?
The short answer is an index of 674.6 for Pond Inlet (2023–2025), built from 220 violent incidents and 367.2 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Pond Inlet?
Top of the list is mischief (332.8 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 173.1, and assault, at 149.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Pond Inlet?
No: the index fell 8%, from 723.4 in 2023 to 666.1 in 2025. The police area is small or partly reported, so treat the change with care.
How much of Pond Inlet’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 61%: 73% for violent crime and 49% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Pond Inlet 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).