Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainGlenelg has less crime per resident than 78% of Canadian towns
It grades A− for safety on crime the police covering Glenelg reported from 2023 to 2025. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 56.2 and 40.2. The local count comes to 11.6 violent incidents and 17.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Steady over the three years, the index read 41 in 2023 and 42.2 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. Measured across the Rogersville detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Glenelg
Lower than most of New Brunswick
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Glenelg, 44.5. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 25% for Glenelg (53% violent, 9% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Glenelg’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 28 km from Glenelg, 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.
Crime in Glenelg, type by type
Fraud and assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18.3 | 2.3 | 7% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16 | 2 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 2.7 | 8% |
| Mischief | 37 | 4.6 | 2% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8.3 | 1 | 33% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
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.
The detachment closest to Glenelg, 8,160 residents, recorded about 94 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 140 a year and other violations 31 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Glenelg, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (50.4) and 2023 the trough (41). In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Glenelg | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 41 | 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 Glenelg, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Glenelg
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenelg | 1,635 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Miramichi (20 km) | 19,402 | 82.1 | 89.1 | C |
| Hardwicke (22 km) | 2,286 | 124.8 | 183 | D |
| Rogersville (24 km) | 1,131 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Rogersville (28 km) | 1,288 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Glenelg. Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 20–28 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Glenelg.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Glenelg
Is Glenelg safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 44.5 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Glenelg stands, with 11.6 violent and 17.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Glenelg?
Most often it is mischief: 4.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come assault at 4.2 and fraud at 4.2.
Is crime going up in Glenelg?
Not much: the index went from 41 in 2023 to 42.2 in 2025.
How much of Glenelg’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 53% of violent crime and 9% of everything else, 25% 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 Glenelg 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).