The Newfoundland & Labrador Public Record

All crime

Every offence police recorded, including federal statutes and traffic. Figures below are for 2025.

43,806 Reported to police 7,966 per 100,000 people
10,097 Led to a charge 23 in 100 reports
9,440 People charged 1,896 per 100,000 aged 12+
3,724 Finished in court 54 in 100 ended in a guilty finding Court year 2024/2025. A different survey.
Someone charged 10,097 Solved another way 2,017 No one charged 31,692

3,528 further reports, 7.5 per cent of all reports received, were judged not to have happened. They are not counted above.

1998 to 2025

Counts Per 100,000 people
0 12,500 25,000 37,500 50,0001998 — Someone charged: 10,6131998 — Solved another way: 5,7261998 — No one charged: 18,5651999 — Someone charged: 10,0331999 — Solved another way: 5,1401999 — No one charged: 18,0782000 — Someone charged: 10,0442000 — Solved another way: 3,6502000 — No one charged: 20,4772001 — Someone charged: 10,2452001 — Solved another way: 3,8702001 — No one charged: 19,4272002 — Someone charged: 9,0592002 — Solved another way: 4,1852002 — No one charged: 21,1152003 — Someone charged: 8,8942003 — Solved another way: 5,9102003 — No one charged: 20,3232004 — Someone charged: 8,2792004 — Solved another way: 5,9442004 — No one charged: 21,2832005 — Someone charged: 7,5532005 — Solved another way: 5,7762005 — No one charged: 21,1752006 — Someone charged: 7,2122006 — Solved another way: 7,8682006 — No one charged: 18,9292007 — Someone charged: 7,7952007 — Solved another way: 8,1112007 — No one charged: 19,8052008 — Someone charged: 8,1432008 — Solved another way: 8,4332008 — No one charged: 19,5992009 — Someone charged: 8,3712009 — Solved another way: 8,0082009 — No one charged: 21,1522010 — Someone charged: 8,8112010 — Solved another way: 7,0862010 — No one charged: 23,4332011 — Someone charged: 8,5462011 — Solved another way: 6,0882011 — No one charged: 22,8312012 — Someone charged: 8,7222012 — Solved another way: 5,5432012 — No one charged: 21,7592013 — Someone charged: 8,7712013 — Solved another way: 5,2912013 — No one charged: 21,1552014 — Someone charged: 8,3912014 — Solved another way: 5,0472014 — No one charged: 19,4042015 — Someone charged: 8,1962015 — Solved another way: 4,3702015 — No one charged: 21,0792016 — Someone charged: 8,6422016 — Solved another way: 4,6222016 — No one charged: 21,1522017 — Someone charged: 8,3842017 — Solved another way: 4,4112017 — No one charged: 19,1222018 — Someone charged: 8,4952018 — Solved another way: 4,0302018 — No one charged: 19,2272019 — Someone charged: 8,2492019 — Solved another way: 3,2762019 — No one charged: 23,4782020 — Someone charged: 7,3842020 — Solved another way: 3,0332020 — No one charged: 24,8732021 — Someone charged: 7,0942021 — Solved another way: 3,0602021 — No one charged: 27,9212022 — Someone charged: 7,7812022 — Solved another way: 3,0622022 — No one charged: 28,7362023 — Someone charged: 8,3902023 — Solved another way: 2,9532023 — No one charged: 31,3852024 — Someone charged: 9,4742024 — Solved another way: 2,3772024 — No one charged: 34,7392025 — Someone charged: 10,0972025 — Solved another way: 2,0172025 — No one charged: 31,69219982002200620102014201820222025
Someone charged 10,097 Solved another way 2,017 No one charged 31,692

Each bar is the year's total reports. The segments show what happened: a charge was laid, the case was solved another way, or no one was charged.

Figures beside each colour are for 2025. This view always shows counts, whichever measure is selected above.

Subtotals inside this category, 2025

Total, all Criminal Code violations (excluding traffic)39,717 39,717
Total property crime violations20,718 20,718
Total violent Criminal Code violations10,110 10,110
Total other Criminal Code violations8,889 8,889
Total Criminal Code traffic violations2,861 2,861
Total Federal Statute violations1,228 1,228
Total drug violations1,025 1,025

What happened in court, 2024/2025

3,724 adult criminal court cases were completed in Newfoundland and Labrador under total offences, and 2,007 of them, 54 per cent, ended in a guilty finding.

Guilty2,007 2,007 54%
Stayed or withdrawn1,645 1,645 44%
Acquitted59 59 2%
Other decisions13 13 0%

These are not the incidents above. A court case is counted under the most serious offence it contains, so one case can cover several charges. The court year runs April to March, and the cases completed in it mostly began with charges laid in earlier years. The survey covers adults only; anyone under eighteen at the time of the offence is dealt with in youth court and does not appear here. Court figures cover all offences, including traffic and federal statutes.

Court outcomes year by year
Court yearCases completed GuiltyStayed or withdrawnAcquitted Guilty per 100
2024/2025 3,724 2,0071,64559 54
2023/2024 3,423 1,8931,47246 55
2022/2023 3,742 2,0811,61149 56
2021/2022 2,811 1,6841,08437 60
2020/2021 3,695 2,4701,15551 67
2019/2020 4,420 2,9441,40658 67
2018/2019 4,850 3,4241,38335 71
2017/2018 4,722 3,3591,32727 71
2016/2017 4,524 3,3261,14635 74
2015/2016 4,877 3,7611,05930 77
2014/2015 5,183 3,8371,29823 74
2013/2014 5,439 4,1181,25532 76
2012/2013 5,958 4,5861,31529 77
2011/2012 5,782 4,4061,32825 76
2010/2011 5,767 4,4391,28411 77
2009/2010 5,398 4,1811,17512 77
2008/2009 5,229 3,8961,26227 75
2007/2008 4,808 3,6821,06419 77
2006/2007 5,065 3,8761,1553 77
2005/2006 5,584 4,2021,32111 75
2004/2005 6,037 4,5231,4692 75
2003/2004 5,915 4,5391,3297 77
2002/2003 6,252 4,9351,2706 79
2001/2002 6,163 4,9061,2133 80
2000/2001 5,915 4,6091,2488 78
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.

This panel counts every police-reported violation, including federal statutes and traffic offences. The Crime Severity Index, which is what most news coverage quotes, is a different measure: it weights each offence by the sentences courts hand down, so a small number of serious crimes can move it while the count of incidents falls. A rising count and a falling index, or the reverse, are both ordinary.

The series starts in 1998 because that is the first year this category appears in the survey. Earlier years are left out rather than drawn as zero.

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