Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Musquash records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 54.7 and other offences for 61, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. In a usual year, 11.5 violent incidents and 24.7 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Musquash grades B− for safety overall: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Still, by 2025 the index had climbed to 65.7, up from 59.8 in 2023.
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 Grand Bay Westfield detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Musquash
Mischief: high for a town its size
Musquash records 8.2 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 Musquash ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 42% of violent crime and 13% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 54.7 on Musquash’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 61 against 62.8. By type ↓
Close to New Brunswick’s typical town
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Musquash scores 58.8. 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 sits behind Musquash’s B−
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 23 km from Musquash, not to the town.
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 Musquash’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Musquash runs highest on mischief (8.2 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.10 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 24.3 | 2.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5.7 | 0.6 | 47% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 20 | 2 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 49 | 4.9 | 22% |
| Mischief | 83.7 | 8.2 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 18.3 | 1.8 | 56% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 9.3 | 0.9 | 8% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 38 | 3.7 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
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.
Musquash, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It closed on its heaviest year, 2025, at 65.7; the lightest was 2024, at 50.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Musquash | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 59.8 | 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 Musquash, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Musquash, 10,700 residents: around 120 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 250 property crimes, plus 130 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 Musquash
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musquash | 1,378 | 58.8 | 54.7 | B− |
| Grand Bay-Westfield (26 km) | 5,202 | 58.8 | 54.7 | B− |
| Pennfield (29 km) | 2,309 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
| Saint John (30 km) | 79,371 | 81.5 | 114.2 | C |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Musquash. The table leaves out one neighbour whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 26–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Musquash.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
Questions about safety in Musquash
Is Musquash safe?
Musquash scores 58.8 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 11.5 violent incidents and 24.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Musquash?
Mischief is the most common, at 8.2 per 1,000 residents a year, then Criminal Code traffic offences (7.2) and fraud (5.6).
Is crime going up in Musquash?
It has: 59.8 in 2023 became 65.7 by 2025, a rise of 10%.
How much of Musquash’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 20%: 42% for violent crime and 13% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Musquash together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).