Photo: Not specified · Public domainSaint James has more crime per resident than nine in ten Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 115 and other offences for 156.3, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. It grades D for safety on crime the police covering Saint James reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 25.5 violent incidents and 60.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 148.5 to 138.3.
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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the St Stephen detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint James
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint James records 21 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 ↓
Above New Brunswick’s typical town
Saint James’s index of 143.6 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on property and other crime
Saint James scores 115 for violence and 156.3 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
A low clearance rate
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 23% for Saint James (47% violent, 16% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. 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 Saint James’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Saint James has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 18 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.
Crime in Saint James, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint James runs highest on mischief (21 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (11.7 per 1,000 against 2.5) and assault (12.7 per 1,000 against 6.7).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4 | 0.4 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 7.3 | 0.7 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 2 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.5 | 34% |
| Breaking and entering | 127.7 | 11.7 | 12% |
| Possession of stolen property | 15 | 1.4 | 22% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 37.7 | 3.5 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 9.7 | 0.9 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 143.7 | 13.2 | 25% |
| Mischief | 227.7 | 21 | 6% |
| Weapons violations | 12.7 | 1.2 | 45% |
| Administration of justice violations | 68.3 | 6.3 | 61% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 32.7 | 3 | 18% |
| Drug violations | 24.3 | 2.3 | 25% |
| Impaired driving | 51 | 4.8 | 47% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 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.
Around 280 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Saint James (10,500 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.
Property crime adds about 650 a year and other violations 380 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint James, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 148.5 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 138.3 in 2025. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint James | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 144 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 148.5 | 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 James, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint James
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint James | 1,085 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| Saint David | 1,559 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| Saint Stephen | 1,772 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
| St. Stephen | 4,876 | 143.6 | 115 | D |
Its police also cover 3 neighbouring places, which carry the same index and are left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint James
Is Saint James safe?
Saint James scores 143.6 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2; per 1,000 residents a year that is 25.5 violent incidents and 60.2 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Saint James?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 23.8 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 21 and theft under $5,000 at 13.2.
Is crime going up in Saint James?
Down 7%: 148.5 in 2023, 138.3 in 2025.
How much of Saint James’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 23% of crime (47% of violent crime, 16% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint James 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).