Crime data, Newfoundland and Labrador
This data comes directly from Statistics Canada. These are the same figures our government uses when it designs programs, writes policy, and builds budgets for us. They don’t make it easy to find, and they don’t present it in a way that lets you make sense of it in the context of your own experience. That’s what this page is for.
43,806 All crime, 2025 7,966 per 100,000 people See the full record →Violence against children
Offences in the Criminal Code that apply only where the victim is a child.
Sexual offences, all ages
Sexual offences where the law does not specify the age of the victim, plus child sexual abuse material.
Violence
Offences against a person, from uttering threats through to homicide.
Property
Offences against property: break and enter, theft, shoplifting, mischief.
Financial and white collar
Fraud and the financial offences police handle as crimes.
Drugs
Possession, trafficking, and production under the drug laws.
Administration of justice
Offences against the court process itself, such as breaching probation.
What to know about these figures
These figures come from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, a census of crimes reported to and founded by police. They count what police recorded, not everything that happened. Self-reported victimization surveys consistently find most crime is never reported to police; for sexual assault the reported share was about 6 percent in 2019.
Incidents, charges, and court outcomes come from two separate surveys (UCR and the Integrated Criminal Court Survey) that cannot be linked case by case. Read the stages as four measurements of the same system in the same year, not as one group of cases followed from report to verdict.
In January 2018 the definition of a founded incident changed: an incident is now counted as founded unless there is credible evidence that it did not occur. This raised recorded counts across many offence types. Comparisons that cross 2018 should note it.
Newfoundland and Labrador is policed by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and the RCMP. UCR coverage of the provincial population is 100 percent.