Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est records more crime than three in five Canadian towns
Its police logs show 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical town its size the numbers are 12.9 and 31.2. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 72.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town its size scores 68.5. What’s more, the grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est reported from 2023 to 2025: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Shediac detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est comes 31st, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Rising since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est moved from 66.4 to 77.9, while the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 25% of Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s crime, weighted by seriousness (49% of violent crime, 16% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Set beside the typical Canadian town its size, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s two halves part ways: 74.8 for violence (typical 85.7) and 72.6 for the rest (typical 62.8). 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 Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 14 km off, which covers its own area rather than Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est.
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.
Its place: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1,528 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
In Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, up 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (77.9); the lightest was 2023 (66.4). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 74 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 66.4 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est comes 31st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Douro-Dummer Ontario | 8,379 | 14.9 | 13.8 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Lincoln New Brunswick | 8,093 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 28 | Cypress County Alberta | 7,855 | 66.6 | 46.6 | B− |
| 29 | Goderich Ontario | 8,412 | 68.4 | 100.1 | B− |
| 30 | Clinton Ontario | 8,318 | 72.5 | 106.8 | C+ |
| 31 | Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est New Brunswick | 8,138 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 32 | Kenora, Unorganized Ontario | 7,877 | 73.9 | 96.2 | C+ |
| 33 | Clare Nova Scotia | 8,020 | 79.7 | 93.8 | C |
| 34 | Torbay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,297 | 81 | 104.2 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Happy Valley-Goose Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 8,197 | 360 | 345 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.6), mischief (6.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.8). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.2 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 17.7 | 0.6 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 37% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 3.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 53 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 106.3 | 3.6 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 16.3 | 0.6 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 265.7 | 9 | 20% |
| Mischief | 193.7 | 6.6 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.7 | 1.9 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 43.7 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 24 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 76 | 2.6 | 46% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.2 | 5% |
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 to 10,000 people.
The detachment nearest Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est, 30,400 residents: around 390 violent incidents a year, 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 910 property crimes, plus 370 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 Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
3 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est
Is Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est scores 72.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 13.3 violent and 30.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 68.5, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
What is the most common crime in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (9 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 6.9, and mischief, at 6.6, follow.
Is crime going up in Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est?
It went up 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 66.4 to 77.9.
How much of Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est’s crime do police solve?
25%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 49% and non-violent crime at 16%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est and everywhere else it polices.
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).