Photo: JP3G · CC BY-SA 3.0Bertrand is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its Safety Grade, B−, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Steady over the three years, the index read 61.2 in 2023 and 64.2 in 2025. Typical years here bring 17.1 violent incidents plus 23.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Violence accounts for an index of 81.5 and other offences for 61.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8.
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 Caraquet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Bertrand
Less crime solved
Police cleared 20% of Bertrand’s crime, weighted by seriousness (32% of violent crime, 13% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Close to New Brunswick’s typical town
Bertrand’s index of 67.1 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
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 Bertrand’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 11 km from Bertrand, not to the town.
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.
Bertrand’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Bertrand runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (6.4 per 1,000 against 5.1).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 0.5 | 19% |
| Breaking and entering | 28.3 | 1.9 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 1.8 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.3 | 4.1 | 11% |
| Mischief | 109.7 | 7.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.3 | 3.2 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 1.9 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 18 | 1.2 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 46 | 3.1 | 52% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.07 | — |
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.
Bertrand, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 75.9; 2023 was the lightest, at 61.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Bertrand | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 75.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.2 | 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 Bertrand, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Bertrand, 14,500 residents: around 250 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.
Add about 340 property crimes and 220 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Bertrand
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bertrand | 1,209 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Paquetville | 2,225 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Caraquet | 4,572 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| New Bandon | 1,245 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Inkerman | 2,462 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
4 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
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Bertrand
Is Bertrand safe?
The short answer is an index of 67.1 for Bertrand (2023–2025), built from 17.1 violent incidents and 23 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Bertrand?
Most often it is mischief: 7.3 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 7.2 and fraud at 6.4.
Is crime going up in Bertrand?
Not much: the index went from 61.2 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
How much of Bertrand’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 20% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 32% of violent and 13% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Bertrand 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).