Photo: Ultimograph5 · CC BY-SA 4.0Neguac records more crime per resident than 87% of Canadian towns
Split in two, the index gives 183 for violence and 102.6 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). Graded on crime the police covering Neguac reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety. Add to that, its police logs show 32.5 violent incidents and 43.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. The index fell from 114.7 in 2023 to 104.4 in 2025.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Neguac detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Neguac
Mischief: high for a town its size
Neguac records 19.3 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 ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Neguac, 124.8. 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’s behind Neguac’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.
Neguac’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Neguac runs highest on mischief (19.3 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (7.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (16.8 per 1,000 against 6.7). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 5 | 0.6 | 74% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 6.7 | 0.8 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5.7 | 0.7 | 53% |
| Breaking and entering | 61 | 7.2 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.7 | 1.1 | 21% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 27 | 3.1 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 53 | 6.2 | 6% |
| Mischief | 162 | 19.3 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 4.7 | 0.5 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 53.3 | 6.3 | 65% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 26.3 | 3.1 | 19% |
| Drug violations | 11.3 | 1.4 | 27% |
| Impaired driving | 26.7 | 3.1 | 33% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 2.3 | 0.3 | — |
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.
8,160 residents, about 270 violent incidents a year: the police area Neguac 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.
Add about 360 property crimes and 170 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Neguac, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 155.2, with 2025 the lightest at 104.4. 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 | Neguac | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 155.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 114.7 | 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 Neguac, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Neguac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neguac | 1,733 | 124.8 | 183 | D |
| Alnwick (5 km) | 3,767 | 124.8 | 183 | D |
| Hardwicke (26 km) | 2,286 | 124.8 | 183 | D |
| Tracadie (28 km) | 16,453 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Saint-Isidore (30 km) | 1,372 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in under Neguac. Tracadie, 28 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 97.1 to 124.8. Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Neguac with figures are 5–30 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- How serious, not how safe. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. An RCMP or OPP detachment reports one set of figures for everywhere it polices, so Neguac’s are shared with its surroundings.
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Neguac
Is Neguac safe?
Neguac measures 124.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 32.5 violent incidents and 43.1 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Neguac?
Top of the list is mischief (19.3 per 1,000 residents a year); assault, at 16.8, and other Criminal Code offences, at 12.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Neguac?
No: the index fell 9%, from 114.7 in 2023 to 104.4 in 2025.
How much of Neguac’s crime do police solve?
29%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 48% and non-violent crime at 15%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Neguac 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).