Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Kedgwick is close to typical for Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 71.2 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Kedgwick grades C+ for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 16.4 violent incidents and 26.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 Saint Quentin detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Kedgwick
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Kedgwick stood at 86.6, by 2025 at 59. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Kedgwick records 8.4 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 ↓
Below-typical clearance
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Kedgwick’s police clear 20%, 39% of violent crime and 11% of the rest. Questions ↓
Much like New Brunswick’s towns
Kedgwick’s index of 71.2 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. 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 Kedgwick’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 16 km off, which covers its own area rather than Kedgwick.
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, Kedgwick’s index dropped 32%
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 86.6, and 2025 the lightest at 59. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Kedgwick | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 67.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 86.6 | 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 Kedgwick, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Kedgwick, by type
Against the typical town its size, Kedgwick runs highest on mischief (8.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (4.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.7 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 29.3 | 4.4 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 7.3 | 1.1 | 23% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 27.7 | 4.1 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 16 | 2.4 | 6% |
| Mischief | 56 | 8.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 2.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 17.7 | 2.6 | 38% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 12 | 1.8 | 14% |
| Drug violations | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.3 | 1.4 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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 nearest Kedgwick, 6,750 residents: around 110 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 180 a year and other violations 72 (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 Kedgwick
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kedgwick | 2,051 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin | 1,588 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin | 2,294 | 71.2 | 83.8 | C+ |
The comparison skips 2 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Kedgwick
Is Kedgwick safe?
The short answer is an index of 71.2 for Kedgwick (2023–2025), built from 16.4 violent incidents and 26.4 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Kedgwick?
Mischief is the most common, at 8.4 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (7.6) and assault (5.3).
Is crime going up in Kedgwick?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 32%, to 59 from 86.6.
How much of Kedgwick’s crime do police solve?
About 20% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 39% of violent and 11% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Kedgwick 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).