Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/naturallight/ Leslie Philipp · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Taloyoak records more crime than 97% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Taloyoak reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades D− for safety. Violence and property crime split as 97.2 violent incidents and 352.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its violent half comes to 458.6 and its non-violent half to 321.7, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Taloyoak detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Taloyoak
Mischief: high for a town its size
Taloyoak records 336.1 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 ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 54% of Taloyoak’s crime, weighted by seriousness (75% of violent crime, 42% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Taloyoak’s grade
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.
Taloyoak’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Taloyoak runs highest on mischief (336.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (64.8 per 1,000 against 6.7) and break and enter (7.7 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 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 65% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.7 | 2.6 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 8 | 7.7 | 38% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0 | 0 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1.7 | 1.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 4 | 3.8 | — |
| Mischief | 349.7 | 336.1 | 40% |
| Weapons violations | 0.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 14.7 | 14.1 | 75% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.3 | 2.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 0.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 11 | 10.6 | 12% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 100 violent incidents a year across the police area of 1,050 residents that includes Taloyoak, 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.
Add about 370 property crimes and 100 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Three years of Taloyoak’s crime index
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 374.6, and 2023 lowest at 338. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Taloyoak | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 374.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 363.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 338 | 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 Taloyoak, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Taloyoak
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taloyoak | 1,046 | 358.6 | 458.6 | D− |
| Gjoa Haven (137 km) | 1,464 | 190.5 | 268.8 | D |
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest place to Taloyoak with figures is 137 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A small police area. With roughly 1,046 residents in its police area, a few cases swing the figures. In Statistics Canada’s words, “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Taloyoak is one part.
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
Questions about safety in Taloyoak
Is Taloyoak safe?
Police-reported crime in Taloyoak scores 358.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 97.2 violent incidents and 352.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Taloyoak?
Most often it is mischief: 336.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 88.7 and assault at 64.8.
Is crime going up in Taloyoak?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 11%, to 374.6 from 338. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Taloyoak’s crime do police solve?
54%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 75% and non-violent crime at 42%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Taloyoak 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).