Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Paquetville sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Its violent half comes to 81.5 and its non-violent half to 61.9, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Behind the grade sit 17.1 violent incidents and 23.0 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+. Paquetville’s overall Safety Grade is B−: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Across 2023 to 2025 the index held steady, 61.2 to 64.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Caraquet detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Paquetville
Mischief: high for a town its size
Paquetville records 7.3 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 ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 20% of Paquetville’s crime, weighted by seriousness (32% of violent crime, 13% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
Paquetville’s index of 67.1 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. 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 sits behind Paquetville’s B−
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 20 km from Paquetville, 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.
Paquetville’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Paquetville runs highest on mischief (7.3 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (6.4 per 1,000 against 5.1). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 8 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.09 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7 | 0.5 | 19% |
| Breaking and entering | 28.3 | 1.9 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 11 | 0.7 | 21% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 1.8 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.3 | 4.1 | 11% |
| Mischief | 109.7 | 7.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 47.3 | 3.2 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27.7 | 1.9 | 23% |
| Drug violations | 18 | 1.2 | 17% |
| Impaired driving | 46 | 3.1 | 52% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.07 | — |
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.
Paquetville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 75.9, 2024 topped the three years, and 2023 was lowest at 61.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Paquetville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 75.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 61.2 | 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 Paquetville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 250 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Paquetville (14,500 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 340 property crimes and 220 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 Paquetville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paquetville | 2,225 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Bertrand | 1,209 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| New Bandon | 1,245 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
| Saint-Isidore | 1,372 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Caraquet | 4,572 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
3 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Paquetville
Is Paquetville safe?
Paquetville’s Crime Severity Index is 67.1 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 17.1 violent incidents and 23 property crimes 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 Paquetville?
Top of the list is mischief (7.3 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 7.2, and fraud, at 6.4, follow.
Is crime going up in Paquetville?
Barely: 61.2 in 2023, 64.2 in 2025.
How much of Paquetville’s crime do police solve?
20%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 32% and non-violent crime at 13%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Paquetville 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).