Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Per resident, Petitcodiac records more crime than 72% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 92.8 and other offences for 84, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. In a usual year, 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. Measured on crime the police covering Petitcodiac reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C. About 28% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for 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. Measured across the Sussex detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Petitcodiac
Mischief: high for a town its size
Petitcodiac 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 ↓
Close to New Brunswick’s typical town
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 86 in Petitcodiac. 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’s behind Petitcodiac’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 35 km from Petitcodiac, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
Petitcodiac’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Petitcodiac runs highest on mischief (10.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and fraud (6.1 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 | 11.7 | 0.6 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Breaking and entering | 102 | 5.2 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.3 | 0.9 | 48% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.3 | 2.2 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 212.3 | 10.8 | 28% |
| Mischief | 198 | 10.1 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Administration of justice violations | 73.7 | 3.7 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27 | 1.4 | 17% |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 0.9 | 36% |
| Impaired driving | 58.7 | 3 | 55% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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.
The detachment closest to Petitcodiac, 20,000 residents, recorded about 330 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 710 a year and other violations 320 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
From 2023 to 2025, Petitcodiac’s index dropped 6%
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 94.8, and its lowest 2024, at 74.1. 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 | Petitcodiac | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 74.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 94.8 | 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 Petitcodiac, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Petitcodiac
The comparison skips 3 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.”
- What 100 means. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Petitcodiac
Is Petitcodiac safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Petitcodiac’s Crime Severity Index stands at 86 for 2023–2025. Its police record 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Petitcodiac?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 10.8 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (10.1) and other Criminal Code offences (10).
Is crime going up in Petitcodiac?
Down 6%: 94.8 in 2023, 89.1 in 2025.
How much of Petitcodiac’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 28% of crime (49% of violent crime, 18% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Petitcodiac 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).