Photo: Mykola Swarnyk · CC BY-SA 4.0Plaster Rock has more crime per resident than 92% of Canadian towns
Its letter for safety is D, worked out from crime the police covering Plaster Rock reported over 2023 to 2025. Add to that, typical years here bring 28.2 violent incidents plus 55.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 12.0 plus 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 160.4 for violence and 166.4 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8). In 2023 the index stood at 151.6; it rose 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. Shared with the rest of the Perth Andover detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Plaster Rock
Mischief: high for a town its size
Plaster Rock 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 ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
Plaster Rock’s index of 163.7 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Plaster Rock’s two halves part ways: 160.4 for violence (typical 86.4) and 166.4 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Less crime solved
Police cleared 25% of Plaster Rock’s crime, weighted by seriousness (51% of violent crime, 15% of the rest), against 34% across 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 Plaster Rock’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Plaster Rock has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 30 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.
Plaster Rock’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Plaster Rock 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.
Plaster Rock, year by year
Crime Severity Index
2025, the last year shown, came out highest at 174, and 2023 lowest at 151.6. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Plaster Rock | 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 Plaster Rock, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment closest to Plaster Rock, 6,950 residents, recorded about 200 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.
Add about 380 property crimes and 240 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 Plaster Rock
The table leaves out 2 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Plaster Rock
Is Plaster Rock safe?
Plaster Rock scores 163.7 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 28.2 violent incidents and 55.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Plaster Rock?
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 Plaster Rock?
It has: 151.6 in 2023 became 174 by 2025, a rise of 15%.
How much of Plaster Rock’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 25% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 51% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Plaster Rock and other places, so the figures are shared.
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).