Photo: Squelle · Public domainPennfield has more crime per resident than 73% of Canadian towns
Graded on crime the police covering Pennfield reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety. Violence and property crime split as 17.7 violent incidents and 31.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 105.8 and 81.9.
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 St George detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Pennfield
Mischief: high for a town its size
Pennfield records 10.1 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 ↓
Heavier than in 2023
Pennfield’s index went from 83.2 in 2023 to 99.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Pennfield’s index of 88.2 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 25% of crime in Pennfield ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 46% of violent crime and 13% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Pennfield’s C for safety
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Pennfield itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 10 km away.
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.
Pennfield’s index rose 20% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 99.9, and 2024 lowest at 81.6. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Pennfield | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 99.9 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 81.6 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 83.2 | 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 Pennfield, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Pennfield’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Pennfield runs highest on mischief (10.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.5 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (8.1 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 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3 | 0.3 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.07 | — |
| Robbery | 2.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 54.7 | 5.5 | 10% |
| Possession of stolen property | 8.3 | 0.8 | 24% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 21.3 | 2.1 | 13% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9 | 0.9 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61 | 6.1 | 11% |
| Mischief | 100.3 | 10.1 | 9% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.6 | 37% |
| Administration of justice violations | 43 | 4.3 | 47% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 22 | 2.2 | 21% |
| Drug violations | 6.7 | 0.7 | 10% |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 3.6 | 29% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 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.
Around 180 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Pennfield (10,100 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.
Property crime adds about 310 a year and other violations 170 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Pennfield
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennfield | 2,309 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
| St. George | 1,757 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
| Saint George | 2,675 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
2 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
- What clearance means. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- The index’s scale. 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.
Questions about safety in Pennfield
Is Pennfield safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 88.2 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Pennfield stands, with 17.7 violent and 31.4 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Pennfield?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 11.6 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 10.1 and assault at 8.1.
Is crime going up in Pennfield?
Up 20%: 83.2 in 2023, 99.9 in 2025.
How much of Pennfield’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 25% of crime (46% of violent crime, 13% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Pennfield 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).