The Newfoundland & Labrador Public Record

Property

Offences against property: break and enter, theft, shoplifting, mischief. Figures below are for 2025.

20,718 Reported to police 3,768 per 100,000 people
1,848 Led to a charge 9 in 100 reports
1,847 People charged 371 per 100,000 aged 12+
760 Finished in court 58 in 100 ended in a guilty finding Court year 2024/2025. A different survey.
Someone charged 1,848 Solved another way 758 No one charged 18,112

1,528 further reports, 6.9 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 6,250 12,500 18,750 25,0001998 — Someone charged: 3,9571998 — Solved another way: 2,0251998 — No one charged: 13,3881999 — Someone charged: 3,4241999 — Solved another way: 1,8411999 — No one charged: 12,8102000 — Someone charged: 3,1032000 — Solved another way: 1,2512000 — No one charged: 14,0062001 — Someone charged: 3,1492001 — Solved another way: 1,5002001 — No one charged: 13,2162002 — Someone charged: 2,8252002 — Solved another way: 1,6592002 — No one charged: 14,4822003 — Someone charged: 2,9112003 — Solved another way: 2,4012003 — No one charged: 14,7822004 — Someone charged: 3,0112004 — Solved another way: 2,5322004 — No one charged: 15,3182005 — Someone charged: 2,5712005 — Solved another way: 2,4972005 — No one charged: 14,8782006 — Someone charged: 2,2822006 — Solved another way: 3,6312006 — No one charged: 14,3722007 — Someone charged: 2,3552007 — Solved another way: 4,1572007 — No one charged: 14,2352008 — Someone charged: 2,2052008 — Solved another way: 4,1802008 — No one charged: 13,3552009 — Someone charged: 2,3692009 — Solved another way: 3,9252009 — No one charged: 14,2352010 — Someone charged: 2,5742010 — Solved another way: 3,2292010 — No one charged: 15,2422011 — Someone charged: 2,5952011 — Solved another way: 2,7422011 — No one charged: 14,6392012 — Someone charged: 2,3972012 — Solved another way: 2,1942012 — No one charged: 14,2532013 — Someone charged: 2,3872013 — Solved another way: 1,9692013 — No one charged: 14,4032014 — Someone charged: 2,3532014 — Solved another way: 1,7052014 — No one charged: 13,3072015 — Someone charged: 2,0902015 — Solved another way: 1,5512015 — No one charged: 14,2272016 — Someone charged: 2,0072016 — Solved another way: 1,6222016 — No one charged: 14,2692017 — Someone charged: 1,7302017 — Solved another way: 1,6402017 — No one charged: 12,1962018 — Someone charged: 1,8232018 — Solved another way: 1,6352018 — No one charged: 12,1512019 — Someone charged: 1,7942019 — Solved another way: 1,4092019 — No one charged: 13,3312020 — Someone charged: 1,3082020 — Solved another way: 1,2412020 — No one charged: 13,8652021 — Someone charged: 1,1722021 — Solved another way: 1,0082021 — No one charged: 15,3242022 — Someone charged: 1,5102022 — Solved another way: 1,1422022 — No one charged: 16,8612023 — Someone charged: 1,5462023 — Solved another way: 1,1022023 — No one charged: 18,6942024 — Someone charged: 1,9372024 — Solved another way: 8912024 — No one charged: 20,2942025 — Someone charged: 1,8482025 — Solved another way: 7582025 — No one charged: 18,11219982002200620102014201820222025
Someone charged 1,848 Solved another way 758 No one charged 18,112

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 mischief10,135 10,135
Total theft under $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)5,558 5,558
Total breaking and entering1,724 1,724
Total theft of motor vehicle657 657
Total theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)242 242
Total possession of stolen property120 120

Which offences make this up, 2025

Mischief10,133 10,133
Shoplifting $5,000 or under2,591 2,591
Theft $5,000 or under2,463 2,463
Breaking and entering1,717 1,717
Theft $5,000 or under from a motor vehicle504 504
Arson171 171
Theft over $5,000165 165
Breaking and entering to steal a firearm5 5

Select any offence to see it year by year on its own.

What happened in court, 2024/2025

760 adult criminal court cases were completed in Newfoundland and Labrador under crimes against property, and 439 of them, 58 per cent, ended in a guilty finding.

Guilty439 439 58%
Stayed or withdrawn311 311 41%
Acquitted8 8 1%
Other decisions2 2 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 use the group crimes against property.

Court outcomes year by year
Court yearCases completed GuiltyStayed or withdrawnAcquitted Guilty per 100
2024/2025 760 4393118 58
2023/2024 737 4303015 58
2022/2023 910 5243788 58
2021/2022 654 4052463 62
2020/2021 996 7042875 71
2019/2020 1,219 9262846 76
2018/2019 1,379 1,0792954 78
2017/2018 1,432 1,1292944 79
2016/2017 1,209 9832223 81
2015/2016 1,212 1,0321712 85
2014/2015 1,339 1,0952345 82
2013/2014 1,443 1,2032311 83
2012/2013 1,684 1,4182571 84
2011/2012 1,587 1,3222601 83
2010/2011 1,586 1,3032704 82
2009/2010 1,472 1,1982671 81
2008/2009 1,408 1,1102783 79
2007/2008 1,353 1,1072341 82
2006/2007 1,535 1,2183011 79
2005/2006 1,666 1,3463000 81
2004/2005 1,763 1,4163301 80
2003/2004 1,565 1,2762810 82
2002/2003 1,587 1,2832912 81
2001/2002 1,657 1,3413010 81
2000/2001 1,707 1,3813120 81
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.

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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