Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Quispamsis records less crime than almost every Canadian town
Measured on crime the police covering Quispamsis reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A+: #1 of 59 in New Brunswick. None of the 5 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Quispamsis’s violent half comes to 27.9 and its non-violent half to 17.1, where the norm is 89.4 and 56. Behind the grade sit 3.9 violent incidents and 7.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size.
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 Kennebecasis Region service area.
What stands out about safety in Quispamsis
Under the New Brunswick norm
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Quispamsis scores 20. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Quispamsis is 1st of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
Police cleared 47% of Quispamsis’s crime, weighted by seriousness (63% of violent crime, 36% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. 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 Quispamsis’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.
Its place: #1 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Quispamsis’s crime by kind
Fraud and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 13 | 0.4 | 41% |
| Possession of stolen property | 3 | 0.09 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 13 | 0.4 | 52% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 17.7 | 0.5 | 41% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 97.3 | 3 | 47% |
| Mischief | 57 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Weapons violations | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 31.3 | 1 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14 | 0.4 | 71% |
| Drug violations | 3.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Impaired driving | 39.7 | 1.2 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3.3 | 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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Quispamsis comes 1st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quispamsis New Brunswick | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Bridgenorth Ontario | 20,628 | 21.2 | 23.1 | A+ |
| 3 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 25.7 | 29 | A+ |
| 4 | Oak Bay British Columbia | 18,626 | 26.7 | 23.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 32 | Miramichi New Brunswick | 19,402 | 82.1 | 89.1 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Lloydminster (Part) Alberta | 21,267 | 211.6 | 177.2 | D |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Quispamsis in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Quispamsis is part of, 32,900 residents, recorded about 130 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 250 a year and other violations 110 (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, Quispamsis’s index dropped 10%
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 24.9, with 2025 the lightest at 16.7. In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 69.5 (2023), then 60 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Quispamsis | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.7 | 60 |
| 2024 | 24.9 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 18.5 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Quispamsis, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Quispamsis
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Quispamsis. One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- Shared policing. A regional or shared police service reports one set of figures for every municipality it covers, Quispamsis included.
- 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. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
Questions about safety in Quispamsis
Is Quispamsis safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Quispamsis comes to 20. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 3.9 violent incidents and 7.6 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in Quispamsis?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 3, assault at 1.9 and other Criminal Code offences at 1.8, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Quispamsis?
No: the index fell 10%, from 18.5 in 2023 to 16.7 in 2025.
How much of Quispamsis’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 63% of violent crime and 36% of everything else, 47% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 33% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Quispamsis 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).