Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNorthesk records more crime per resident than 79% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 100.3 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Add to that, it grades C− for safety on crime the police covering Northesk reported from 2023 to 2025. Behind the grade sit 25.1 violent incidents and 34.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Sunny Corner detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Northesk
Mischief: high for a town its size
Northesk records 16.3 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 ↓
Down since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Northesk moved from 125.9 to 73.9, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 100.3 in Northesk. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 21% for Northesk (33% violent, 14% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
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 Northesk’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.
In Northesk, down 41% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 125.9, against a low of 73.9 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Northesk | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 101.2 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 125.9 | 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 Northesk, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Northesk, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Northesk runs highest on mischief (16.3 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (11.7 per 1,000 against 6.7) and motor vehicle theft (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.4). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.07 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.7 | 0.8 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.7 | 3.6 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 1.1 | 30% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 23.3 | 3.7 | 3% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.5 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23 | 3.7 | 3% |
| Mischief | 101 | 16.3 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 7 | 1.1 | 47% |
| Administration of justice violations | 22.3 | 3.7 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.8 | 7% |
| Drug violations | 11.3 | 1.8 | 24% |
| Impaired driving | 23.7 | 3.9 | 37% |
| 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 160 violent incidents a year in the 6,840-resident police area around Northesk, 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 220 property crimes, plus 100 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 Northesk
Sharing its police with 2 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
- A wider policing area. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Northesk is one part.
Questions about safety in Northesk
Is Northesk safe?
Its police recorded 25.1 violent incidents and 34.8 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives Northesk a Crime Severity Index of 100.3. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Northesk?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 16.3, assault at 11.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 8.5, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Northesk?
It went down 41% between 2023 and 2025, from 125.9 to 73.9.
How much of Northesk’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 21% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 33% of violent and 14% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Northesk 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).