Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainCrime in Botsford sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 58.4, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. Police clear 28% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. The overall Safety Grade is B, which means close to the middle of Canadian towns, judged on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Sackville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Botsford
Visitors count, residents divide
Only year-round residents divide the crime in Botsford, yet 44% of its homes are seasonal or empty: the rates run higher than the place feels to the people who live there. How to read it ↓
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Botsford stood at 84.1, by 2025 at 64.2. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Botsford scores 58.4. 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.
The grade: B for Botsford
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 42 km from Botsford, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
What police record in Botsford, by type
Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.7 | 2 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 17 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 2.4 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51 | 4.6 | 18% |
| Mischief | 53 | 4.7 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19 | 1.7 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.9 | 7% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.9 | 23% |
| Impaired driving | 22.3 | 2 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Botsford’s index dropped 24%
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 84.1, and 2024 the lightest at 26.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Botsford | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 26.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 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 Botsford, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Botsford, 11,300 residents: around 120 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 210 property crimes and 110 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 Botsford
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botsford | 1,240 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| Westmorland (19 km) | 1,060 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| Cap-Pelé (26 km) | 3,092 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est (31 km) | 8,138 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Summerside (34 km) | 19,006 | 118.7 | 108.2 | C− |
| Cumberland County, Subdivision C (34 km) | 6,040 | 93.1 | 86.7 | C− |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Botsford. Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Botsford with figures are 19–34 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Botsford
Is Botsford safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Botsford comes to 58.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Botsford?
Police record mischief most, 4.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (4.6) and other Criminal Code offences (4.5).
Is crime going up in Botsford?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 24%, to 64.2 from 84.1.
How much of Botsford’s crime do police solve?
28%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 51% and non-violent crime at 15%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Botsford 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).