Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime per resident in Hartland runs higher than in 82% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 122.4 and its non-violent half to 104.7, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Graded on crime the police covering Hartland reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C− for safety. Out of every 1,000 residents, 19.6 violent incidents and 39.0 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Western Valley Region detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Hartland
Mischief: high for a town its size
Hartland records 12.3 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 ↓
Down since 2023
Hartland’s index went from 136 in 2023 to 100.1 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Hartland’s index of 109.1 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Hartland’s police clear 23%, 46% of violent crime and 13% of the rest. 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 Hartland’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Hartland has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 18 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.
From 2023 to 2025, Hartland’s index dropped 26%
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 136, and its lowest 2024, at 91.2. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hartland | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 91.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 136 | 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 Hartland, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Hartland, by type
Against the typical town its size, Hartland runs highest on mischief (12.3 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.9 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (8.5 per 1,000 against 6.7). 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 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 64% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 11 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 10 | 0.4 | 40% |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 3.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 10 | 0.4 | 27% |
| Breaking and entering | 132.7 | 5.9 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 58.7 | 2.6 | 26% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 86 | 3.8 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15 | 0.7 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 126 | 5.6 | 8% |
| Mischief | 277 | 12.3 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 15.7 | 0.7 | 57% |
| Administration of justice violations | 100.3 | 4.4 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 41.7 | 1.9 | 19% |
| Drug violations | 17 | 0.8 | 41% |
| Impaired driving | 48.7 | 2.2 | 41% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.07 | — |
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.
Around 440 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Hartland (23,100 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.
Property crime adds about 880 a year and other violations 420 (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 Hartland
Its police also cover 5 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
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Hartland
Is Hartland safe?
Its police recorded 19.6 violent incidents and 39 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Hartland a Crime Severity Index of 109.1. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Hartland?
Police record mischief most, 12.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (11.3) and assault (8.5).
Is crime going up in Hartland?
It went down 26% between 2023 and 2025, from 136 to 100.1.
How much of Hartland’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 46% of violent crime and 13% of everything else, 23% 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 Hartland 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).