Photo: Gorob · CC BY-SA 3.0Canning records more crime per resident than 70% of Canadian towns
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 83.2, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2. What’s more, in a usual year, 17.8 violent incidents and 29.3 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Measured on crime the police covering Canning reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C. The typical town in New Brunswick scores 72.8 on the same index.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Minto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Canning
A busy place, counted per resident
About 40% of Canning’s homes are cottages, second homes or otherwise empty much of the year: crime in the busy months is divided by year-round residents only, which lifts every rate here. How to read it ↓
Up since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Canning moved from 65.2 to 112.9, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Canning records 10.5 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 ↓
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 18% of crime in Canning ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 32% of violent crime and 10% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C for Canning
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 11 km from Canning, 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.
Canning’s index rose 73% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 112.9, and 2023 lowest at 65.2. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Canning | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 71.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65.2 | 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 Canning, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Canning’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Canning runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 27.3 | 3.3 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 1.5 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 25.3 | 3.1 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 35.7 | 4.3 | 3% |
| Mischief | 85.7 | 10.5 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 21.3 | 2.8 | 46% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 1.8 | 12% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.8 | 10% |
| Impaired driving | 15.3 | 1.8 | 20% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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.
About 140 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Canning (6,910 residents), 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 240 property crimes and 120 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 Canning
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canning | 1,151 | 83.2 | 112.1 | C |
| Minto (14 km) | 2,349 | 83.2 | 112.1 | C |
| Chipman (28 km) | 1,301 | 115.1 | 197.5 | C− |
| Maugerville (34 km) | 1,808 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Oromocto (35 km) | 9,451 | 138.7 | 183.5 | D |
| Springfield (36 km) | 1,751 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
Canning sits above 2 of the 4 neighbours with figures of their own. Just 33.8 km away, Maugerville comes to 63.2, against 83.2. One neighbour is on the same police service or detachment, so it shares the figure and isn’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. No closer places have figures: these lie 14–36 km from Canning.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- The clearance rate. 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.
Questions about safety in Canning
Is Canning safe?
Police-reported crime in Canning scores 83.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 17.8 violent incidents and 29.3 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 Canning?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (10.5) and assault (6.5).
Is crime going up in Canning?
Yes: the index rose 73%, from 65.2 in 2023 to 112.9 in 2025.
How much of Canning’s crime do police solve?
18%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 32% and non-violent crime at 10%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Canning 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).