Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Louis de Kent sees more crime per resident than 82% of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index climbed from 111.1 in 2023 to 124.3 by 2025. Add to that, on the record of crime the police covering Saint-Louis de Kent reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety. Against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8, violent and non-violent offences here reach 149.1 and 95.9. The yearly rates were 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set 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. Area behind the crime severity, crime rate and incident counts figures: the Richibucto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Louis de Kent
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint-Louis de Kent 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 ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Saint-Louis de Kent, 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-Louis de Kent’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Saint-Louis de Kent has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 17 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-Louis de Kent, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Louis de Kent runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), assault (10 per 1,000 against 6.7) and fraud (6.3 per 1,000 against 5.1).
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-Louis de Kent, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 124.3 in 2025, having been lowest in 2024 at 95.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ read 70.6 (2023), then 62.9 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Louis de Kent | 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-Louis de Kent, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
About 340 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Saint-Louis de Kent (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-Louis de Kent
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Louis de Kent | 1,026 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Louis | 1,830 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Charles | 2,189 | 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− |
Same police, same number: 5 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. 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.
- Cleared, not convicted. 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 Saint-Louis de Kent
Is Saint-Louis de Kent safe?
With 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Saint-Louis de Kent comes to 110.5 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more have a median of 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Louis de Kent?
Other Criminal Code offences is the most common, at 13 per 1,000 residents a year, then mischief (10.5) and assault (10).
Is crime going up in Saint-Louis de Kent?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 12%, to 124.3 from 111.1.
How much of Saint-Louis de Kent’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 33% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 61% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Saint-Louis de Kent and everywhere else it polices.
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).