Photo: David Wilson · CC BY 2.0Petit-Rocher sees less crime per resident than almost any other Canadian town
Counting crime the police covering Petit-Rocher reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety. On top of that, its police logs show 9.3 violent incidents and 9.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ the numbers are 12.0 and 31.2. Split in two, the index gives 35.4 for violence and 21 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
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 BNPP Regional service area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Petit-Rocher
Below New Brunswick’s typical town
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 25 in Petit-Rocher. Towns its size ↓
Lighter than in 2023
Petit-Rocher’s index went from 29.3 in 2023 to 23.8 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 47% for Petit-Rocher (65% violent, 34% 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 Petit-Rocher’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.
Crime in Petit-Rocher, type by type
Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13.7 | 1 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 10 | 0.8 | 40% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.3 | 0.8 | 32% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 34.3 | 2.7 | 35% |
| Mischief | 29.3 | 2.4 | 35% |
| Weapons violations | 0 | 0 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 22.7 | 1.9 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 9.7 | 0.8 | 93% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Petit-Rocher’s index dropped 19%
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 29.3 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2024, at 21.8. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Petit-Rocher | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.8 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 21.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 29.3 | 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 Petit-Rocher, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Petit-Rocher is part of, 15,000 residents, recorded about 120 violent incidents a year (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 120 a year and other violations 46 (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 Petit-Rocher
Sharing its police with 3 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
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- A wider service area. The service that polices Petit-Rocher reports once for its whole area, so the figures aren’t the town’s alone.
Questions about safety in Petit-Rocher
Is Petit-Rocher safe?
Police-reported crime in Petit-Rocher scores 25 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), with 9.3 violent incidents and 9.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Petit-Rocher?
Most often it is assault: 3.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come theft under $5,000 at 2.7 and mischief at 2.4.
Is crime going up in Petit-Rocher?
It went down 19% between 2023 and 2025, from 29.3 to 23.8.
How much of Petit-Rocher’s crime do police solve?
About 47% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 65% of violent and 34% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Petit-Rocher 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).