Photo: David Broad · CC BY 3.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in New London than in 75% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 50.7 and other offences for 45.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Behind the grade sit 10.1 violent incidents and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Counting crime the police covering New London reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A− for safety.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Queens District detachment area).
What stands out about safety in New London
More people here than live here
Seasonal homes make up about 44% of New London’s housing, so summer crime is set against winter’s population and the rates read high. How to read it ↓
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in New London stood at 52.3, by 2025 at 43.1. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; New London’s police clear 25%, 36% of violent crime and 21% of the rest. Questions ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
New London records 7.1 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 ↓
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 New London’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.
In New London, down 18% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (52.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 43.1. 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 | New London | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 44.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 52.3 | 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 New London, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in New London, by type
Against the typical town its size, New London runs highest on mischief (7.1 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 14.7 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.7 | 0.3 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.2 | 18% |
| Breaking and entering | 41 | 1.3 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.2 | 29% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 24 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.2 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 105.7 | 3.3 | 9% |
| Mischief | 227.7 | 7.1 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 97.7 | 3 | 67% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 31.7 | 1 | 6% |
| Drug violations | 27.3 | 0.8 | 28% |
| Impaired driving | 117.7 | 3.7 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.03 | — |
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 320 violent incidents a year in the 32,800-resident police area around New London, 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 520 property crimes, plus 410 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 New London
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New London | 1,443 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
| Kensington | 2,016 | 69.9 | 48.4 | C+ |
| Kensington, Part 1 | 3,357 | — | — | — |
| Malpeque Bay | 1,351 | — | — | — |
| Kinkora | 1,416 | — | — | — |
| New Glasgow | 5,502 | 46.6 | 50.7 | A− |
One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so New London’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 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. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in New London
Is New London safe?
With 10.1 violent incidents and 16.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, New London comes to 46.6 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 New London?
Top of the list is mischief (7.1 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7, and Criminal Code traffic offences, at 4.7, follow.
Is crime going up in New London?
Down 18%: 52.3 in 2023, 43.1 in 2025.
How much of New London’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 25%: 36% for violent crime and 21% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers New London 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).