Photo: Not specified - non spécifié · Public domainRogersville records less crime per resident than 78% of Canadian towns
Of the two halves, violence comes to 56.2 and other offences to 40.2, beside norms of 86.4 and 62.8. Police counts work out at 11.6 violent incidents and 17.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ they are 12.0 and 31.2. Scored on crime the police covering Rogersville reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A− for safety. 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Rogersville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Rogersville
Lower than most of New Brunswick
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Rogersville, 44.5. Towns its size ↓
Below-typical clearance
Police cleared 25% of Rogersville’s crime, weighted by seriousness (53% of violent crime, 9% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Rogersville’s A−
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.
Rogersville’s crime by kind
Fraud and assault sit below it.
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.
Around 94 violent incidents a year in the 8,160-resident police area around Rogersville, 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 140 property crimes, plus 31 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Rogersville, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 50.4 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 41 in 2023. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
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+.
Crime in the places around Rogersville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogersville | 1,288 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Rogersville (6 km) | 1,131 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
| Nelson (23 km) | 1,014 | 100.3 | 142.4 | C− |
| Blackville (27 km) | 2,104 | 139.9 | 194.6 | D |
| Glenelg (28 km) | 1,635 | 44.5 | 56.2 | A− |
Rogersville has the lowest index of the places around it. 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. Rogersville has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 6–28 km out.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Town and surroundings together. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Rogersville is one part.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- 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 Rogersville
Is Rogersville safe?
Rogersville measures 44.5 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 11.6 violent incidents and 17.4 property crimes.
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?
Not much: the index went from 41 in 2023 to 42.2 in 2025.
How much of Rogersville’s crime do police solve?
25%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 53% and non-violent crime at 9%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Rogersville and everywhere else it polices.
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).