Photo: Patrick Emond (mon conjoint) et moi même (Isabelle Provencher). · Public domainCrime per resident in Nigadoo runs lower than in almost every Canadian town
On the record of crime the police covering Nigadoo reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A+ for safety. Of the two halves, violence comes to 35.4 and other offences to 21, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Police counts work out at 9.3 violent incidents and 9.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2.
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 BNPP Regional service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Nigadoo
Below New Brunswick’s typical town
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 25 in Nigadoo. Towns its size ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Nigadoo moved from 29.3 to 23.8, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Nigadoo’s police clear 47%, 65% of violent crime and 34% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The A+ for Nigadoo, and how it is built
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.
Nigadoo’s index fell 19% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 29.3, against a low of 21.8 in 2024. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Nigadoo | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 21.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 29.3 | 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 Nigadoo, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 120 violent incidents a year across the police area of 15,000 residents that includes Nigadoo, 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 120 property crimes and 46 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
What police record in Nigadoo, by type
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 | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13.7 | 1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10 | 0.8 | 40% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.3 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 34.3 | 2.7 | 35% |
| Mischief | 29.3 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 22.7 | 1.9 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.7 | 0.8 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
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.
Crime in the places around Nigadoo
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigadoo | 1,102 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| Beresford | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| Beresford | 4,389 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| Petit-Rocher | 2,019 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| Bathurst | 4,840 | — | — | — |
| Bathurst | 13,331 | 108.4 | 151.1 | C− |
3 neighbours report through the same police, so their figure is this one and they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- One service, several municipalities. Nigadoo is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Nigadoo
Is Nigadoo safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Nigadoo scores 25 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 9.3 violent and 9.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Nigadoo?
Assault is the most common, at 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (2.7) and mischief (2.4).
Is crime going up in Nigadoo?
Over 2023–2025 the index dropped 19%, to 23.8 from 29.3.
How much of Nigadoo’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 47% of crime (65% of violent crime, 34% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Nigadoo 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).