Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Nackawic records more crime than seven in ten Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 81.7 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Nackawic reported put it at C for safety. Year on year, 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Nackawic detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Nackawic
Heavier than in 2023
Nackawic’s index went from 51.4 in 2023 to 94.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 20% of crime in Nackawic ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 48% of violent crime and 9% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 78.9 on Nackawic’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 83.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
Near the New Brunswick middle
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Nackawic, 81.7. 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.
Inside Nackawic’s C for safety
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.
Nackawic’s index rose 83% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 99.3; 2023 was lightest, at 51.4. 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 | Nackawic | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.4 | 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 Nackawic, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Nackawic’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Nackawic runs highest on break and enter (5.5 per 1,000 against 2.5) and mischief (8.3 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 | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 38.7 | 5.5 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.7 | 1.4 | 24% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.8 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 2.3 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 54.7 | 7.7 | 8% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 8.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.3 | 2.8 | 48% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 12.3 | 1.7 | 27% |
| 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.
About 100 violent incidents a year across the police area of 6,710 residents that includes Nackawic, 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.
Add about 240 property crimes and 75 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Nackawic
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nackawic | 1,019 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Southampton | 1,616 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Queensbury | 1,421 | 81.7 | 78.9 | 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
- The index’s scale. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Nackawic together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
Questions about safety in Nackawic
Is Nackawic safe?
Its police recorded 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Nackawic a Crime Severity Index of 81.7. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Nackawic?
Mischief is the most common, at 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (7.7) and other Criminal Code offences (6.9).
Is crime going up in Nackawic?
It went up 83% between 2023 and 2025, from 51.4 to 94.3.
How much of Nackawic’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 48% of violent crime and 9% of everything else, 20% 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 Nackawic 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).