Saint-Charles has more crime per resident than 82% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 149.1 and 95.9. From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Charles reported put it at C− for safety. On top of that, recorded violent incidents ran at 24.4 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 34.1, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its Crime Severity Index climbed from 111.1 in 2023 to 124.3 by 2025.
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. The crime severity, crime rate and incident counts numbers here cover the Richibucto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Charles
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint-Charles records 10.5 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Higher than most of New Brunswick
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Saint-Charles, 110.5. 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’s behind Saint-Charles’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Saint-Charles itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 12 km away.
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.
What police record in Saint-Charles, by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Charles runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.4 | 45% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.7 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.4 | 20% |
| Breaking and entering | 62 | 4.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 29 | 2.1 | 31% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 65.7 | 4.7 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.8 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.7 | 4.4 | 12% |
| Mischief | 146.3 | 10.5 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.7 | 4.4 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 17 | 1.2 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 3.5 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3 | 0.2 | — |
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.
Saint-Charles, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its index peaked most recently, in 2025 (124.3); 2024 was the low point, at 95.9. 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 | Saint-Charles | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 95.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 111.1 | 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 Saint-Charles, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 340 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Saint-Charles (14,200 residents), 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 470 property crimes and 300 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Charles
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Charles | 2,189 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Louis de Kent | 1,026 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Louis | 1,830 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto | 1,745 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Rexton | 1,059 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto 15 | 2,126 | — | — | — |
| Richibucto | 2,457 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
5 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
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- Severity, weighed. 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 Saint-Charles
Is Saint-Charles safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Saint-Charles’s Crime Severity Index stands at 110.5 for 2023–2025. Its police record 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Charles?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 13 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (10.5) and assault (10).
Is crime going up in Saint-Charles?
It has: 111.1 in 2023 became 124.3 by 2025, a rise of 12%.
How much of Saint-Charles’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 61% of violent crime and 15% of everything else, 33% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Charles 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).