Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Dundas than in 60% of Canadian towns
The grade is C+, built on crime the police covering Dundas reported from 2023 to 2025: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick. Police counts work out at 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.9 and 31.2. Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Dundas’s Crime Severity Index averaged 72.8 over 2023–2025, against 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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. Shared with the rest of the Shediac detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Dundas
Rising since 2023
From 66.4 in 2023 to 77.9 in 2025: that is Dundas’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Dundas comes 24th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people the typical clearance rate is 34%; Dundas’s police clear 25%, 49% of violent crime and 16% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Dundas’s index splits into violent crime, 74.8 here and 85.7 for the typical Canadian town its size, and everything else, 72.6 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Dundas
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 13 km off, which covers its own area rather than Dundas.
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: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1,528 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.
Year by year in Dundas: up 17%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (77.9) and 2023 least (66.4). Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Dundas | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 74 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 66.4 | 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 Dundas, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
What police record in Dundas, by type
Against the typical town its size, Dundas runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.6), mischief (6.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.8). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.2 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 17.7 | 0.6 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 37% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 3.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 53 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 106.3 | 3.6 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 16.3 | 0.6 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 265.7 | 9 | 20% |
| Mischief | 193.7 | 6.6 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.7 | 1.9 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 43.7 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 24 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 76 | 2.6 | 46% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.2 | 5% |
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.
Dundas comes 24th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Valley Ontario | 4,759 | 26.4 | 20.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Caraquet New Brunswick | 4,572 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| 21 | Electoral Area D, Fraser-Fort George British Columbia | 4,802 | 67.3 | 98.3 | B− |
| 22 | Jasper Alberta | 4,627 | 67.7 | 60.8 | B− |
| 23 | Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare Quebec | 4,615 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 24 | Dundas New Brunswick | 4,733 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 25 | Sutton Quebec | 4,775 | 72.8 | 96 | C+ |
| 26 | Rivière-Rouge Quebec | 4,882 | 73.1 | 131 | C+ |
| 27 | Hampton New Brunswick | 4,754 | 74.5 | 74.9 | C+ |
| 28 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 4,721 | 80.3 | 100.6 | C |
| … | |||||
| 37 | St. Stephen New Brunswick | 4,876 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| … | |||||
| 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 Dundas in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 390 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Dundas (30,400 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 910 property crimes, plus 370 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 Dundas
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dundas | 4,733 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
| Shediac | 5,699 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Shediac | 9,849 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Saint-Antoine | 1,880 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Dundas. Cocagne, 6.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 34.5 to 72.8. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
Questions about safety in Dundas
Is Dundas safe?
Dundas scores 72.8 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5; per 1,000 residents a year that is 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Dundas?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 9, other Criminal Code offences at 6.9 and mischief at 6.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Dundas?
It went up 17% between 2023 and 2025, from 66.4 to 77.9.
How much of Dundas’s crime do police solve?
25%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 49% and non-violent crime at 16%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Dundas 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).