Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainCaraquet is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its 3 neighbours with figures all record more crime per resident. Of the two halves, violence comes to 81.5 and other offences to 61.9, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Overall, Caraquet grades B− for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, recorded violent incidents ran at 17.1 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 23.0, 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Caraquet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Caraquet
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 20% for Caraquet (32% violent, 13% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Near the New Brunswick middle
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Caraquet scores 67.1. 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 Caraquet’s grade
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.
Crime in Caraquet, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Caraquet runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (6.4 per 1,000 against 5.1). 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 | 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.
In Caraquet, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 75.9, with 2023 the lightest at 61.2. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Caraquet | 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 Caraquet, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 250 violent incidents a year in the 14,500-resident police area around Caraquet, 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 Caraquet
The places around Caraquet all score higher on the index. 3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Caraquet is one part.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Caraquet
Is Caraquet safe?
Caraquet scores 67.1 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 17.1 violent incidents and 23 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Caraquet?
Top of the list is mischief (7.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.2, and fraud, at 6.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Caraquet?
Barely: 61.2 in 2023, 64.2 in 2025.
How much of Caraquet’s crime do police solve?
20%, 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 13%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Caraquet 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).