Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFewer crimes per resident are recorded in Rogersville than in 78% of Canadian towns
Its violent half comes to 56.2 and its non-violent half to 40.2, where the norm is 86.4 and 62.8. Measured on crime the police covering Rogersville reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of A−. For every 1,000 residents, 11.6 violent incidents and 17.4 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, the figures are 12.0 and 31.2. From 2023 to 2025 its Crime Severity Index stayed steady, 41 then 42.2.
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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts published for the Rogersville detachment area, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Rogersville
Lower than most of New Brunswick
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Rogersville scores 44.5. Towns its size ↓
A low clearance rate
For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the typical clearance rate is 34%; Rogersville’s police clear 25%, 53% of violent crime and 9% of the rest. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Rogersville: A− for safety, and why
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.
8,160 residents, about 94 violent incidents a year: the police area Rogersville belongs to, 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 140 property crimes and 31 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Rogersville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 50.4, 2024 topped the three years, and 2023 was lowest at 41. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rogersville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 50.4 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 41 | 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 Rogersville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Rogersville, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.7 | 0.08 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 18.3 | 2.3 | 7% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6.7 | 0.8 | 19% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 16 | 2 | 11% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 3 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 21.7 | 2.7 | 8% |
| Mischief | 37 | 4.6 | 2% |
| Weapons violations | 1.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8.3 | 1 | 33% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.3 | 0.5 | — |
| Drug violations | 2.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Impaired driving | 4 | 0.5 | — |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.04 | — |
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.
Crime in the places around Rogersville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogersville | 1,131 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Rogersville | 1,288 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Nelson | 1,014 | 100.3 | 142.4 | C− |
The comparison skips one neighbour reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Rogersville together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Rogersville
Is Rogersville safe?
With 11.6 violent incidents and 17.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Rogersville comes to 44.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Rogersville?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 4.6, assault at 4.2 and fraud at 4.2, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Rogersville?
Barely: 41 in 2023, 42.2 in 2025.
How much of Rogersville’s crime do police solve?
About 25% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 53% of violent and 9% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Rogersville 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).