Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Charlo sees more crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 100 for violence and 85.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Its police logs show 19.7 violent incidents and 33.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Graded on crime the police covering Charlo reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety. What’s more, the index rose from 90.2 in 2023 to 98.2 in 2025.
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: one figure for all of the Campbellton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Charlo
Mischief: high for a town its size
Charlo records 10.4 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 ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 17% of crime in Charlo ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 29% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
Charlo’s index of 89.1 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. 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 sits behind Charlo’s C
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 26 km from Charlo, 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.
Which crimes make up Charlo’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Charlo runs highest on mischief (10.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and fraud (6.1 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 | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 9.3 | 0.7 | 89% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 42.3 | 3.4 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8 | 0.6 | 16% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 50 | 4 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.7 | 8% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 80 | 6.1 | 20% |
| Mischief | 133.3 | 10.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 6 | 0.5 | 50% |
| Administration of justice violations | 34.7 | 2.7 | 37% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22.3 | 1.6 | 17% |
| Drug violations | 19.3 | 1.5 | 21% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.9 | 50% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
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.
Charlo, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (98.2); the lightest was 2024 (78.8). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Charlo | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 78.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 90.2 | 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 Charlo, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 250 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Charlo (11,000 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.
And about 420 property crimes, plus 190 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 Charlo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlo | 1,386 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| Eel River Crossing | 1,918 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| Dalhousie | 3,255 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| Balmoral | 1,628 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| Dalhousie | 1,132 | 89.1 | 100 | C |
| Nouvelle | 1,819 | 47.7 | 75.4 | B+ |
4 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Charlo
Is Charlo safe?
Charlo’s Crime Severity Index is 89.1 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 19.7 violent incidents and 33 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Charlo?
Mischief is the most common, at 10.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (8.3) and assault (7).
Is crime going up in Charlo?
It went up 9% between 2023 and 2025, from 90.2 to 98.2.
How much of Charlo’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 29% of violent crime and 12% of everything else, 17% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Charlo 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).