Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime per resident in Rexton runs higher than in 82% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Rexton reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C− for safety. Year on year, 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Violence accounts for an index of 149.1 and other offences for 95.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. In 2023 the index stood at 111.1; it rose to 124.3 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. Source area for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: the Richibucto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rexton
Mischief: high for a town its size
Rexton records 10.5 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 ↓
Heavier than New Brunswick’s middle
Rexton’s index of 110.5 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. 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 Rexton’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 6 km from Rexton, 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.
Which crimes make up Rexton’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Rexton runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.4) and assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.4 | 45% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.7 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.4 | 20% |
| Breaking and entering | 62 | 4.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 29 | 2.1 | 31% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 65.7 | 4.7 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.8 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.7 | 4.4 | 12% |
| Mischief | 146.3 | 10.5 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.7 | 4.4 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 17 | 1.2 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 3.5 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3 | 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.
Rexton, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (124.3); the lightest was 2024 (95.9). For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rexton | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 95.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 111.1 | 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 Rexton, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Rexton, 14,200 residents: around 340 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 470 property crimes and 300 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 Rexton
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rexton | 1,059 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto | 1,745 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto | 2,457 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Charles | 2,189 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto 15 | 2,126 | — | — | — |
| Saint-Louis de Kent | 1,026 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Louis | 1,830 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
5 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
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- Reading the number. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Rexton
Is Rexton safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Rexton comes to 110.5. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes. In the middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Rexton?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 13 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (10.5) and assault (10).
Is crime going up in Rexton?
Yes: the index rose 12%, from 111.1 in 2023 to 124.3 in 2025.
How much of Rexton’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 33%: 61% for violent crime and 15% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Rexton 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).