Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainDouglas is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
A Crime Severity Index of 63.2, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Douglas at B− (#13 of 59 in New Brunswick): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Add to that, the local count comes to 10.8 violent incidents and 22.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. Its two neighbours with figures both record more crime per resident.
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 behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Oromotco detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Douglas
Down since 2023
Douglas’s index went from 74 in 2023 to 58.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Douglas is 19th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Douglas scores 63.2. 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 Douglas’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Douglas has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 31 km away.
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: #13 of 59 in New Brunswick and #951 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.
Douglas’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Douglas runs highest on mischief (6.1 per 1,000 against 4.9). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 7.3 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.7 | 0.2 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 63.3 | 2.2 | 13% |
| Possession of stolen property | 49 | 1.7 | 24% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 58 | 2 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 31 | 1 | 2% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 146 | 5 | 9% |
| Mischief | 177.3 | 6.1 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 13.3 | 0.5 | 58% |
| Administration of justice violations | 80 | 2.7 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 33.7 | 1.1 | 28% |
| Drug violations | 12.7 | 0.4 | 34% |
| Impaired driving | 55 | 1.9 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 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 to 10,000 people.
In Douglas, down 21% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 74, against a low of 57.3 in 2024. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Douglas | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58.2 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 57.3 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 74 | 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 Douglas, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
By its index, Douglas stands 19th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Electoral Area C, East Kootenay British Columbia | 7,006 | 56.2 | 70.5 | B |
| 17 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized Ontario | 6,831 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 18 | Oliver Paipoonge Ontario | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 19 | Douglas New Brunswick | 6,840 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| 20 | Kent British Columbia | 7,093 | 65.5 | 97.8 | B− |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,486 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | Mont-Joli Quebec | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Sackville New Brunswick | 6,572 | 86.9 | 110.4 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Algoma, Unorganized, North Part Ontario | 7,008 | 302.3 | 509 | 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 Douglas in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The detachment closest to Douglas, 30,400 residents, recorded about 320 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.
Property crime adds about 670 a year and other violations 300 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Douglas
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 6,840 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Bright | 3,648 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Fredericton | 74,655 | 92.3 | 101.9 | C |
| Devon 30 | 1,105 | — | — | — |
| Starlight Village | 5,108 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Kingsclear | 3,158 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| New Maryland | 4,455 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
The places around Douglas all score higher on the index. Its police also cover 3 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 clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Douglas
Is Douglas safe?
Statistics Canada puts Douglas at 63.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people sit at 68.5 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10.8 and property crimes at 22.7 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Douglas?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 6.5 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (6.1) and theft under $5,000 (5).
Is crime going up in Douglas?
No: the index fell 21%, from 74 in 2023 to 58.2 in 2025.
How much of Douglas’s crime do police solve?
29%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 54% and non-violent crime at 15%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Douglas 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).