Photo: Wm. Notman & Son · Public domainMore crimes per resident are recorded in Blackville than in 89% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 194.6 for violence and 119.2 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Measured on crime the police covering Blackville reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of D. Each year brought 29.4 violent incidents and 40.4 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+). Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident.
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. Measured across the Blackville detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Blackville
Mischief: high for a town its size
Blackville records 14.9 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 139.9 in Blackville. 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.
Blackville: D for safety, and why
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.
Which crimes make up Blackville’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Blackville runs highest on mischief (14.9 per 1,000 against 4.2), drug offences (2.5 per 1,000 against 0.7) and break and enter (6.6 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.8 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7 | 1.8 | 81% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 26 | 6.6 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 1.7 | 19% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 17.3 | 4.4 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 18 | 4.5 | 0% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 14.9 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 28.7 | 7.3 | 84% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 2.5 | 60% |
| Drug violations | 9.7 | 2.5 | 10% |
| Impaired driving | 14 | 3.4 | 45% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
Around 120 violent incidents a year in the 3,770-resident police area around Blackville, 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.
Property crime adds about 160 a year and other violations 82 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
The index in Blackville, each year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 176.5 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 112.4 in 2023. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Blackville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 130.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 176.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 112.4 | 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 Blackville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Blackville
The places around Blackville all score lower on the index. The nearest of them, Nelson (15.4 km away), scores 100.3 against 139.9.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Few people behind the figures. About 3,773 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- A detachment’s area. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Blackville’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Blackville
Is Blackville safe?
Blackville’s Crime Severity Index is 139.9 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 29.4 violent incidents and 40.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Blackville?
Mischief is the most common, at 14.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (14) and other Criminal Code offences (11.5).
Is crime going up in Blackville?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 16%, to 130.7 from 112.4. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Blackville’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 54% of violent crime and 13% of everything else, 29% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Blackville together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).