Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainSaint-Jacques has less crime per resident than 91% of Canadian towns
Police clear 28% of crime, weighted by seriousness; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%. Recorded violent incidents ran at 9.3 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 13.7, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. On the record of crime the police covering Saint-Jacques reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety. Violence accounts for an index of 44.6 and other offences for 33.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8.
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. Measured across the Clair detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Jacques
Under the New Brunswick norm
Saint-Jacques’s index of 36.3 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Saint-Jacques moved from 40.2 to 27.7, while the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
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-Jacques’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 26 km from Saint-Jacques, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
From 2023 to 2025, Saint-Jacques’s index dropped 31%
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (41.1) and 2025 the trough (27.7). 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-Jacques | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.7 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 41.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 40.2 | 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-Jacques, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in Saint-Jacques, type by type
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.7 | 0.6 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.2 | — |
| Other violent violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 9.3 | 1.4 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Theft over $5,000 | 0.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 10 | 1.5 | 10% |
| Mischief | 28.3 | 4.3 | 10% |
| Weapons violations | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 8 | 1.2 | 29% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 5 | 0.8 | 6% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 6.3 | 1 | 63% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
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.
The detachment nearest Saint-Jacques, 6,610 residents: around 60 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 89 property crimes, plus 30 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 Saint-Jacques
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Jacques | 1,763 | 36.3 | 44.6 | A |
| Saint-Joseph | 1,641 | 36.3 | 44.6 | A |
| Edmundston | 18,174 | 85 | 102.4 | C |
One neighbour reports through the same police, so its figure is this one and it isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. 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.
- The clearance rate. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- Severity, weighed. Each incident counts by its seriousness, judged from court sentences, and the total is set per resident. As Statistics Canada puts it, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Saint-Jacques
Is Saint-Jacques safe?
Saint-Jacques measures 36.3 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 9.3 violent incidents and 13.7 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Jacques?
Top of the list is fraud (5 per 1,000 residents a year); mischief, at 4.3, and assault, at 3.2, follow.
Is crime going up in Saint-Jacques?
It went down 31% between 2023 and 2025, from 40.2 to 27.7.
How much of Saint-Jacques’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 53% of violent crime and 13% of everything else, 28% 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-Jacques 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).