Photo: Erj1211 · CC BY-SA 3.0Crime per resident in Eel River Crossing runs higher than in 73% of Canadian towns
By 2025 the index had climbed to 98.2, up from 90.2 in 2023. The Safety Grade comes out at C, drawn from crime the police covering Eel River Crossing reported through 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 100 and 85.4. Annual rates stand at 19.7 violent incidents and 33.0 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Campbellton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Eel River Crossing
Mischief: high for a town its size
Eel River Crossing 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 ↓
A low clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Eel River Crossing’s police clear 17%, 29% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Questions ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 89.1 in Eel River Crossing. 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.
The grade: C for Eel River Crossing
How sure: Less sure, as Eel River Crossing has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 16 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.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What police record in Eel River Crossing, by type
Against the typical town its size, Eel River Crossing runs highest on mischief (10.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (3.4 per 1,000 against 2.5). 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.
Eel River Crossing, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 98.2, and 2024 lowest at 78.8. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Eel River Crossing | 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 Eel River Crossing, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Eel River Crossing, 11,000 residents, recorded about 250 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 420 a year and other violations 190 (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 Eel River Crossing
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “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 Eel River Crossing
Is Eel River Crossing safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Eel River Crossing comes to 89.1. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 19.7 violent incidents and 33 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Eel River Crossing?
Police record mischief most, 10.4 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (8.3) and assault (7).
Is crime going up in Eel River Crossing?
It went up 9% between 2023 and 2025, from 90.2 to 98.2.
How much of Eel River Crossing’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 17% of crime (29% of violent crime, 12% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Eel River Crossing 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).