Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Inkerman records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 61.2 then 64.2. Both towns on its borders with figures record more crime per resident. Inkerman’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, recorded violent incidents ran at 17.1 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 23.0, 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. Shared with the rest of the Caraquet detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Inkerman
Mischief: high for a town its size
Inkerman records 7.3 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 ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 20% of crime in Inkerman ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 32% of violent crime and 13% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Near the New Brunswick middle
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 67.1 in Inkerman. 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.
What’s behind Inkerman’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Inkerman has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 13 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 Inkerman’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Inkerman runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (6.4 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 | 8 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 0.5 | 19% |
| Breaking and entering | 28.3 | 1.9 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 1.8 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.3 | 4.1 | 11% |
| Mischief | 109.7 | 7.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.3 | 3.2 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 1.9 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 18 | 1.2 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 46 | 3.1 | 52% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 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.
Inkerman, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 75.9; 2023 was lightest, at 61.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Inkerman | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 75.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.2 | 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 Inkerman, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 250 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Inkerman (14,500 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 340 a year and other violations 220 (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 Inkerman
Inkerman has the lowest index of the places around it. 4 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
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. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
Questions about safety in Inkerman
Is Inkerman safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Inkerman comes to 67.1. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 17.1 violent incidents and 23 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 Inkerman?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 7.3, other Criminal Code offences at 7.2 and fraud at 6.4, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Inkerman?
Barely: 61.2 in 2023, 64.2 in 2025.
How much of Inkerman’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 20%: 32% for violent crime and 13% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Inkerman 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).