Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Moncton sees more crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
Measured on crime the police covering Moncton reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C−: #51 of 59 in New Brunswick. Add to that, the yearly rates were 20.8 violent incidents and 49.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical town its size. Split in two, the index gives 113.3 for violence and 113.9 for everything else (normally 75.2 and 54.2). Each of the two towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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. Measured across the Codiac Regional service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Moncton
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Moncton records 6.4 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. By type ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 113.1 in Moncton. Towns its size ↓
Higher than many towns its size
Line up the 40 Canadian towns nearest in size by their index and Moncton stands 31st, the lowest first. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 23% for Moncton (41% violent, 16% non-violent), beside 38% for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more. 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 Moncton’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.
Its place: #51 of 59 in New Brunswick and #2,208 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crime in Moncton, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Moncton runs highest on break and enter (6.4 per 1,000 against 2.2), mischief (9.8 per 1,000 against 3.8) and drug offences (2.2 per 1,000 against 0.9).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 1.7 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 53 | 0.3 | 43% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 75.3 | 0.5 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 31 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Robbery | 70 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 18 | 0.1 | 54% |
| Other violent violations | 43.7 | 0.3 | 29% |
| Breaking and entering | 979.3 | 6.4 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 201 | 1.3 | 43% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 513.3 | 3.3 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 77 | 0.5 | 13% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 3,211.7 | 21 | 10% |
| Mischief | 1,500 | 9.8 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 111 | 0.7 | 50% |
| Administration of justice violations | 906.7 | 5.9 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 305.7 | 2 | 28% |
| Drug violations | 341 | 2.2 | 30% |
| Impaired driving | 481.3 | 3.1 | 46% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 14.3 | 0.09 | 12% |
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 50,000 people or more.
By its index, Moncton stands 31st of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Repentigny Quebec | 91,290 | 28.1 | 48.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 26 | Saint John New Brunswick | 79,371 | 81.5 | 114.2 | C |
| … | |||||
| 28 | New Westminster British Columbia | 92,124 | 87.9 | 94.6 | C |
| 29 | Fredericton New Brunswick | 74,655 | 92.3 | 101.9 | C |
| 30 | Sault Ste. Marie Ontario | 81,182 | 109.6 | 137 | C− |
| 31 | Moncton New Brunswick | 102,378 | 113.1 | 113.3 | C− |
| 32 | Thunder Bay Ontario | 117,671 | 113.6 | 209.7 | C− |
| 33 | Nanaimo British Columbia | 111,845 | 121.6 | 127.7 | D |
| 34 | Fort McMurray Alberta | 81,611 | 124.5 | 117.5 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Prince George British Columbia | 85,944 | 209.1 | 239.6 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Moncton in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Moncton is part of, 161,000 residents, recorded about 3,200 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 7,620 property crimes, plus 3,580 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Moncton’s index held steady
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (117); the low point came in 2024, at 106.1. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town its size, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Moncton | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116.1 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 106.1 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 117 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Moncton, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Moncton
Moncton has the highest index of the places around it. Just 8.1 km away, Moncton comes to 72.8, against 113.1. 2 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One service, several municipalities. Moncton is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- What 100 means. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Moncton
Is Moncton safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 113.1 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Moncton stands, with 20.8 violent and 49.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Moncton?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (21 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 15.6, and assault, at 10.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Moncton?
Hardly at all, from 117 in 2023 to 116.1 in 2025.
How much of Moncton’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 41% of violent crime and 16% of everything else, 23% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Moncton 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).