Photo: Timepages · CC0Minto records more crime per resident than seven in ten Canadian towns
A Crime Severity Index of 83.2, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Police counts work out at 17.8 violent incidents and 29.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. On top of that, on crime the police covering Minto reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C for safety.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Minto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Minto
Up since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Minto moved from 65.2 to 112.9, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Minto records 10.5 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
Weighted by seriousness, 18% of crime in Minto ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 32% of violent crime and 10% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Close to New Brunswick’s typical town
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Minto, 83.2. 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.
Minto: C for safety, and why
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, Minto’s index climbed 73%
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 112.9, and 2023 lowest at 65.2. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Minto | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 71.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 65.2 | 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 Minto, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Minto’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Minto runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (3.3 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (3.1 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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 | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 27.3 | 3.3 | 5% |
| Possession of stolen property | 12.3 | 1.5 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 25.3 | 3.1 | 8% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 35.7 | 4.3 | 3% |
| Mischief | 85.7 | 10.5 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 21.3 | 2.8 | 46% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 1.8 | 12% |
| Drug violations | 7 | 0.8 | 10% |
| Impaired driving | 15.3 | 1.8 | 20% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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.
6,910 residents, about 140 violent incidents a year: the police area Minto 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.
And about 240 property crimes, plus 120 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Minto
One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The clearance rate. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Minto is one part.
- What 100 means. 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 Minto
Is Minto safe?
Minto scores 83.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 17.8 violent incidents and 29.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Minto?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 10.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 10.5 and assault at 6.5.
Is crime going up in Minto?
It went up 73% between 2023 and 2025, from 65.2 to 112.9.
How much of Minto’s crime do police solve?
About 18% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 32% of violent and 10% 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 Minto 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).