Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Havelock than in 72% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Havelock reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C for safety. Per 1,000 residents a year, 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Violence accounts for an index of 92.8 and other offences for 84, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Police clear 28% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Sussex detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Havelock
Mischief: high for a town its size
Havelock records 10.1 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 ↓
Much like New Brunswick’s towns
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 86 in Havelock. 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.
Havelock: C for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Havelock itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 30 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.
Which crimes make up Havelock’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Havelock runs highest on mischief (10.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and fraud (6.1 per 1,000 against 5.1). 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 | 11.7 | 0.6 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Breaking and entering | 102 | 5.2 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.3 | 0.9 | 48% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.3 | 2.2 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 212.3 | 10.8 | 28% |
| Mischief | 198 | 10.1 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Administration of justice violations | 73.7 | 3.7 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27 | 1.4 | 17% |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 0.9 | 36% |
| Impaired driving | 58.7 | 3 | 55% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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 Havelock, 20,000 residents, recorded about 330 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.
And about 710 property crimes, plus 320 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Year by year in Havelock: down 6%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (94.8); the low point came in 2024, at 74.1. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Havelock | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 74.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 94.8 | 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 Havelock, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Havelock
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock | 1,105 | 86 | 92.8 | C |
| Salisbury | 3,806 | 86 | 92.8 | C |
| Petitcodiac | 1,610 | 86 | 92.8 | C |
2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. 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.
- What the index measures. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Havelock
Is Havelock safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Havelock comes to 86. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Havelock?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 10.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (10.1) and other Criminal Code offences (10).
Is crime going up in Havelock?
The reverse: 94.8 in 2023 came down to 89.1 by 2025, 6% lower.
How much of Havelock’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 28% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 49% of violent crime and 18% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Havelock 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).