Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainCrime per resident in Queensbury runs higher than in 69% of Canadian towns
Violence and property crime split as 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. What’s more, across New Brunswick’s towns, the middle index is 72.8. Its Safety Grade is C, on crime the police covering Queensbury reported from 2023 to 2025. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 81.7, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ sits at 67.2.
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 Nackawic detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Queensbury
More severe than in 2023
From 51.4 in 2023 to 94.3 in 2025: that is Queensbury’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Queensbury records 8.3 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 ↓
A low clearance rate
Weighted by seriousness, 20% of crime in Queensbury ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 48% of violent crime and 9% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Violent crime scores 78.9 on Queensbury’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 83.5 against 62.8. By type ↓
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 Queensbury’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 15 km off, which covers its own area rather than Queensbury.
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Queensbury’s index climbed 83%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (99.3) and 2023 the trough (51.4). For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Queensbury | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.4 | 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 Queensbury, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Queensbury’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Queensbury runs highest on break and enter (5.5 per 1,000 against 2.5) and mischief (8.3 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 38.7 | 5.5 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.7 | 1.4 | 24% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.8 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 2.3 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 54.7 | 7.7 | 8% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 8.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.3 | 2.8 | 48% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 12.3 | 1.7 | 27% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0 | 0 | — |
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.
About 100 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Queensbury (6,710 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 240 a year and other violations 75 (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 Queensbury
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queensbury | 1,421 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Prince William | 1,233 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Bright | 3,648 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Kingsclear | 3,158 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Nackawic | 1,019 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
3 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
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- 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. 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.
Questions about safety in Queensbury
Is Queensbury safe?
The short answer is an index of 81.7 for Queensbury (2023–2025), built from 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Queensbury?
Mischief is the most common, at 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (7.7) and other Criminal Code offences (6.9).
Is crime going up in Queensbury?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 83%, to 94.3 from 51.4.
How much of Queensbury’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 20%: 48% for violent crime and 9% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Queensbury 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).