Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMcAdam sees less crime per resident than 74% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 40.2 and its non-violent half to 51.1, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. The index rose from 50.9 in 2023 to 55.6 in 2025. Scored on crime the police covering McAdam reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety. Annual rates stand at 7.1 violent incidents and 19.5 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the McAdam detachment area.
What stands out about safety in McAdam
Below New Brunswick’s typical town
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; McAdam, 47.7. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
McAdam’s index splits into violent crime, 40.2 here and 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, and everything else, 51.1 against 62.8. By type ↓
Police clear less here
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; McAdam’s police clear 19%, 33% of violent crime and 16% 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 McAdam’s grade
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.
McAdam, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Of the years charted, 2025 weighed most (55.6) and 2024 least (36.5). 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 | McAdam | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55.6 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 36.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 50.9 | 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 McAdam, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in McAdam, by type
Against the typical town its size, McAdam runs highest on mischief (6 per 1,000 against 4.2). Fraud sits 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 | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13.7 | 2.7 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.3 | 1 | 38% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 8.7 | 1.7 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 16.7 | 3.2 | 14% |
| Mischief | 31 | 6 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 7 | 1.4 | 61% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 6.7 | 1.3 | 30% |
| Drug violations | 2.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Impaired driving | 5.7 | 1.1 | 18% |
| 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.
5,170 residents, about 37 violent incidents a year: the police area McAdam belongs to, 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 100 a year and other violations 45 (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 McAdam
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McAdam | 1,274 | 47.7 | 40.2 | B+ |
| Manners Sutton (28 km) | 2,171 | 47.7 | 40.2 | B+ |
| Saint James (30 km) | 1,085 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| Prince William (37 km) | 1,233 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Saint David (39 km) | 1,559 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| Saint Stephen (40 km) | 1,772 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
McAdam has the lowest index of the places around it. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. McAdam has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 28–40 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so McAdam’s are shared with its surroundings.
- 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.
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
Questions about safety in McAdam
Is McAdam safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 47.7 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where McAdam stands, with 7.1 violent and 19.5 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in McAdam?
Most often it is mischief: 6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 5.4 and fraud at 3.9.
Is crime going up in McAdam?
Up 9%: 50.9 in 2023, 55.6 in 2025.
How much of McAdam’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 33% of violent crime and 16% of everything else, 19% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers McAdam 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).