Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Caraquet sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Year on year, 17.1 violent incidents and 23.0 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 61.2 to 64.2. All told, Caraquet grades B− for safety (#22 of 59 in New Brunswick): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 81.5 and other offences for 61.9, against usual levels of 85.7 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Caraquet detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Caraquet
A low clearance rate
Police cleared 20% of Caraquet’s crime, weighted by seriousness (32% of violent crime, 13% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Caraquet stands 22nd, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Caraquet records 7.3 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Close to New Brunswick’s typical town
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 67.1 in Caraquet. 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.
Its place: #22 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1,144 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Caraquet’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Caraquet runs highest on drug offences (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.7), mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.9) and fraud (6.4 per 1,000 against 4.9). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit 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 to 10,000 people.
Caraquet, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 75.9; 2023 was lightest, at 61.2. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Caraquet | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 75.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 61.2 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Caraquet, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Caraquet is 22nd of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bowen Island British Columbia | 4,501 | 24.4 | 16.3 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 4,455 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 19 | Wainwright No. 61 Alberta | 4,576 | 63.5 | 42.7 | B− |
| 20 | Vulcan County Alberta | 4,465 | 64.3 | 54 | B− |
| 21 | Golden British Columbia | 4,433 | 65.5 | 44.5 | B− |
| 22 | Caraquet New Brunswick | 4,572 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| 23 | Jasper Alberta | 4,627 | 67.7 | 60.8 | B− |
| 24 | Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare Quebec | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 25 | Dundas New Brunswick | 4,733 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 26 | Hampton New Brunswick | 4,754 | 74.5 | 74.9 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 29 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 4,721 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Battleford Saskatchewan | 4,657 | 349.1 | 479.8 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Caraquet in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 250 violent incidents a year across the police area of 14,500 residents that includes 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.
And about 340 property crimes, plus 220 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Caraquet
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caraquet | 4,572 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Bas-Caraquet | 1,391 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Caraquet | 1,263 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Bertrand | 1,209 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Inkerman | 2,462 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Shippagan | 3,073 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| Paquetville | 2,225 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
Its police also cover 5 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- A detachment’s area. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Caraquet together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Caraquet
Is Caraquet safe?
The short answer is an index of 67.1 for Caraquet (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 to 10,000 people the figure is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Caraquet?
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 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 its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 32% and non-violent crime at 13%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Caraquet 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).