Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Northampton records more crime than 69% of Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Northampton reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety. On top of that, across New Brunswick’s towns, the middle index is 72.8. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 81.7 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. The local count comes to 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, 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. Measured across the Nackawic detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Northampton
More severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Northampton moved from 51.4 to 94.3, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Northampton records 5.5 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
A low clearance rate
Police cleared 20% of Northampton’s crime, weighted by seriousness (48% of violent crime, 9% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Northampton’s two halves part ways: 78.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 83.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The C for Northampton, and how it is built
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 25 km from Northampton, 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.
Northampton’s index rose 83% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 99.3, with 2023 the lightest at 51.4. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Northampton | 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 Northampton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Northampton’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Northampton runs highest on break and enter (5.5 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (8.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and motor vehicle theft (2.8 per 1,000 against 2.4). 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.
Around 100 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Northampton (6,710 residents), 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 Northampton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton | 1,981 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Woodstock | 6,260 | 153.7 | 132.1 | D |
| Woodstock | 2,371 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Wakefield | 2,749 | 109.1 | 122.4 | C− |
| Southampton | 1,616 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Richmond | 1,516 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
Each neighbour with its own figure comes in over Northampton. 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. 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.”
- 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 crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Northampton
Is Northampton safe?
Statistics Canada puts Northampton at 81.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 14.5 and property crimes at 34.1 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Northampton?
Top of the list is mischief (8.3 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 7.7, and other Criminal Code offences, at 6.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Northampton?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 83%, to 94.3 from 51.4.
How much of Northampton’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 20% of crime (48% of violent crime, 9% 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 Northampton 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).