Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Sackville sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 58.4 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. On top of that, its letter overall is B: close to the middle of Canadian towns, from crime its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Sackville detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Sackville
Down since 2023
From 84.1 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025: that is Sackville’s index, against 70.6 and 62.9 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Year by year ↓
Much like New Brunswick’s towns
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Sackville scores 58.4. 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 sits behind Sackville’s B
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.
Crime in Sackville, type by type
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 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.7 | 2 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 17 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 2.4 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51 | 4.6 | 18% |
| Mischief | 53 | 4.7 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19 | 1.7 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.9 | 7% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.9 | 23% |
| Impaired driving | 22.3 | 2 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 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 2,500 people or more.
Sackville’s index fell 24% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year came first: 2023, at 84.1, against a low of 26.9 in 2024. 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 | Sackville | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 26.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 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 Sackville, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 120 violent incidents a year across the police area of 11,300 residents that includes Sackville, 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 210 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.
Crime in the places around Sackville
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sackville | 1,286 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| Sackville | 6,572 | 86.9 | 110.4 | C |
| Dorchester | 1,130 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| Amherst | 10,072 | 149.6 | 131.2 | D |
| Memramcook | 5,616 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
Sackville has the lowest index of the places around it. 2 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
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.”
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Sackville together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Sackville
Is Sackville safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Sackville comes to 58.4. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, the typical index is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sackville?
Mischief is the most common, at 4.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then theft under $5,000 (4.6) and other Criminal Code offences (4.5).
Is crime going up in Sackville?
The reverse: 84.1 in 2023 came down to 64.2 by 2025, 24% lower.
How much of Sackville’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 28% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 51% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sackville 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).