Photo: Christopherdunlap · Public domainPer resident, Perth-Andover records more crime than nine in ten Canadian towns
Its Safety Grade is D, on crime the police covering Perth-Andover reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence accounts for an index of 160.4 and other offences for 166.4, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Police counts work out at 28.2 violent incidents and 55.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. Add to that, the index rose from 151.6 in 2023 to 174 in 2025.
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 Perth Andover detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Perth-Andover
Mischief: high for a town its size
Perth-Andover records 16.4 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 ↓
Above New Brunswick’s typical town
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Perth-Andover scores 163.7. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 160.4 on Perth-Andover’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 166.4 against 62.8. By type ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 25% of crime in Perth-Andover ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 51% of violent crime and 15% 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.
The grade: D for Perth-Andover
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.
Which crimes make up Perth-Andover’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Perth-Andover runs highest on mischief (16.4 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (9.7 per 1,000 against 2.5) and motor vehicle theft (5.9 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 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 3.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 67 | 9.7 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 31 | 4.5 | 18% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.7 | 5.9 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5.7 | 0.8 | 5% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 68.7 | 9.9 | 12% |
| Mischief | 113.3 | 16.4 | 5% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.8 | 51% |
| Administration of justice violations | 53 | 7.6 | 57% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 20 | 2.9 | 22% |
| Drug violations | 13.7 | 2 | 31% |
| Impaired driving | 26.3 | 3.8 | 42% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
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.
Perth-Andover, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (174); the lightest was 2023 (151.6). Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Perth-Andover | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 165.5 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 151.6 | 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 Perth-Andover, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Around 200 violent incidents a year in the 6,950-resident police area around Perth-Andover, 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 380 a year and other violations 240 (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 Perth-Andover
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth-Andover | 1,609 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Perth (6 km) | 1,113 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Grand Falls (22 km) | 1,114 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Kent (23 km) | 2,028 | 109.1 | 122.4 | C− |
| Gordon (24 km) | 1,576 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
| Denmark (27 km) | 1,412 | 163.7 | 160.4 | D |
4 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Perth-Andover has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 6–27 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. 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.
- How serious, not how safe. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Perth-Andover together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
Questions about safety in Perth-Andover
Is Perth-Andover safe?
The short answer is an index of 163.7 for Perth-Andover (2023–2025), built from 28.2 violent incidents and 55.3 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the median is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Perth-Andover?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 17.4 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 16.4 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 14.8.
Is crime going up in Perth-Andover?
Up 15%: 151.6 in 2023, 174 in 2025.
How much of Perth-Andover’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 25% of crime (51% of violent crime, 15% 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 Perth-Andover 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).