Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Rothesay sees less crime per resident than almost any other Canadian town
In 2023 the index stood at 18.5; it fell to 16.7 in 2025. Counting crime the police covering Rothesay reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A+ for safety: #1 of 59 in New Brunswick. 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. Its violent half comes to 27.9 and its non-violent half to 17.1, where the norm is 89.4 and 56.
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 for the Kennebecasis Region service area.
What stands out about safety in Rothesay
Under the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Rothesay, 20. Towns its size ↓
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Rothesay comes 1st, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Police clear more here
Weighted by seriousness, 47% of crime in Rothesay ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 63% of violent crime and 36% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 33%. 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 Rothesay’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.
Which crimes make up Rothesay’s figures
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.
Rothesay comes 1st of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rothesay New Brunswick | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| 2 | Erin Ontario | 12,924 | 29 | 28.2 | A+ |
| 3 | Georgian Bluffs Ontario | 12,061 | 29.2 | 35.4 | A+ |
| 4 | Cantley Quebec | 12,291 | 29.4 | 51.6 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Moncton New Brunswick | 12,238 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Thompson Manitoba | 12,917 | 589.9 | 1,034.6 | 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 Rothesay in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
The police area Rothesay 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.
And about 250 property crimes, plus 110 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Rothesay, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 24.9; 2025 was the lightest, at 16.7. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Rothesay | 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 Rothesay, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Rothesay
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rothesay | 12,626 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| Quispamsis | 20,240 | 20 | 27.9 | A+ |
| Kingston | 3,577 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Saint John | 79,371 | 81.5 | 114.2 | C |
| Simonds | 4,263 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Hampton | 3,268 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Westfield | 2,245 | 58.8 | 54.7 | B− |
Rothesay has the lowest index of the places around it. 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
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- A regional police service. Rothesay is policed by a service that covers other municipalities too, and Statistics Canada reports the service as a whole.
- Reading the number. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Solved cases. 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.
Questions about safety in Rothesay
Is Rothesay safe?
The short answer is an index of 20 for Rothesay (2023–2025), built from 3.9 violent incidents and 7.6 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. In the middle of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people the figure is 66.
What is the most common crime in Rothesay?
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 Rothesay?
It went down 10% between 2023 and 2025, from 18.5 to 16.7.
How much of Rothesay’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 47% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 63% of violent and 36% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Rothesay 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).