Photo: Not specified · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Richmond than in 69% of Canadian towns
Across New Brunswick’s towns, the middle index is 72.8. Counting crime the police covering Richmond reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C for safety. The yearly rates were 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Nackawic detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Richmond
Rising since 2023
In 2023 the index in Richmond stood at 51.4, by 2025 at 94.3. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Mischief: high for a town its size
Richmond 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 ↓
Below-typical clearance
Weighted by seriousness, 20% of crime in Richmond 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 ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Violent crime scores 78.9 on Richmond’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.
The C for Richmond, and how it is built
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 38 km from Richmond, not to the town.
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.
Year by year in Richmond: up 83%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 99.3, with 2023 the lightest at 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 | Richmond | 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 Richmond, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Which crimes make up Richmond’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Richmond 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.
Around 100 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Richmond (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.
And about 240 property crimes, plus 75 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Richmond
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond | 1,516 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Woodstock | 2,371 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Woodstock | 6,260 | 153.7 | 132.1 | D |
| Northampton | 1,981 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 2 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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 Richmond
Is Richmond safe?
Richmond’s Crime Severity Index is 81.7 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 67.2, the median for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Richmond?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 8.3, theft under $5,000 at 7.7 and other Criminal Code offences at 6.9, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Richmond?
It went up 83% between 2023 and 2025, from 51.4 to 94.3.
How much of Richmond’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 20% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 48% of violent and 9% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Richmond 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).