Photo: Cernavoda · CC BY-SA 2.0For recorded crime, Saint Andrews sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Year on year, 11.0 violent incidents and 33.6 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 71.8 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2. On top of that, its Safety Grade, C+, rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. Neither of the two towns next door with figures records less crime per resident.
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.
What stands out about safety in Saint Andrews
Break and enter: high for a town its size
Saint Andrews records 7.7 incidents of break and enter per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.5 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Police clear less here
Weighted by seriousness, 9% of crime in Saint Andrews ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 17% of violent crime and 7% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 53.1 on Saint Andrews’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 79.9 against 62.8. By type ↓
Much like New Brunswick’s towns
Saint Andrews’s index of 71.8 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. 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.
The grade: C+ for Saint Andrews
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.
Which crimes make up Saint Andrews’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Saint Andrews runs highest on break and enter (7.7 per 1,000 against 2.5), mischief (7.6 per 1,000 against 4.2) and fraud (7.2 per 1,000 against 5.1). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 0 | 0 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0 | 0 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.3 | 7.7 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1 | 0.4 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4.3 | 1.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 23.7 | 8.4 | 10% |
| Mischief | 21.7 | 7.6 | 3% |
| Weapons violations | 1 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 2 | 0.6 | — |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 2.7 | 1 | — |
| Drug violations | 1.3 | 0.4 | — |
| Impaired driving | 5.3 | 1.7 | 43% |
| 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 31 violent incidents a year on Saint Andrews’s police records (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.
Property crime adds about 96 a year and other violations 25 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint Andrews’s index, one year at a time
Crime Severity Index
2024 stands out as the heaviest year at 97, with 2025 the lightest at 43. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint Andrews | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 97 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 75.3 | 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 Saint Andrews, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint Andrews
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Andrews | 2,167 | 71.8 | 53.1 | C+ |
| Saint George | 2,675 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
| St. George | 1,757 | 88.2 | 105.8 | C |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a higher index than Saint Andrews.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- A small police area. About 3,304 people live in the area these figures cover; at that size one bad year shows up large. Statistics Canada says: “Data for police services or detachments with populations less than 5,000 should be used with caution.”
- 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.
- 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. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint Andrews
Is Saint Andrews safe?
Statistics Canada puts Saint Andrews at 71.8 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 11 and property crimes at 33.6 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint Andrews?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 8.4, break and enter at 7.7 and mischief at 7.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint Andrews?
No: the index fell 43%, from 75.3 in 2023 to 43 in 2025. With few people or missing years behind it, the change is a rough one.
How much of Saint Andrews’s crime do police solve?
About 9% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 17% of violent and 7% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
They are Saint Andrews’s own: its police cover the town and no other.
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).