Photo: Jay Woodworth from Brooklyn, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Saint Martins than in 88% of Canadian towns
In a usual year, 7.8 violent incidents and 15.3 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 12.0 and 31.2. It grades A for safety on crime the police covering Saint Martins reported from 2023 to 2025. Of the two halves, violence comes to 35.6 and other offences to 38.9, beside norms 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. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts for the Hampton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint Martins
Below New Brunswick’s typical town
Saint Martins’s index of 37.7 compares with 72.8 for the typical town in New Brunswick. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Saint Martins’s two halves part ways: 35.6 for violence (typical 86.4) and 38.9 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Police clear less here
Police cleared 22% of Saint Martins’s crime, weighted by seriousness (49% of violent crime, 12% of the rest), against 34% across 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 sits behind Saint Martins’s A
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 24 km from Saint Martins, not to the town.
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.
About 130 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Saint Martins (16,000 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 250 a year and other violations 160 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Saint Martins’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Saint Martins runs highest on mischief (5.1 per 1,000 against 4.2).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.7 | 0.04 | — |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 25 | 1.5 | 8% |
| Possession of stolen property | 6 | 0.4 | 38% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 14 | 0.9 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 44 | 2.7 | 15% |
| Mischief | 84.3 | 5.1 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 42.7 | 2.6 | 55% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 14.3 | 0.9 | 21% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Impaired driving | 35.7 | 2.2 | 48% |
| 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.
Saint Martins’s index held steady from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 44.2 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 24.9 in 2024. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint Martins | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 24.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 44.2 | 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 Martins, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Saint Martins
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 3 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 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. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Saint Martins
Is Saint Martins safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Saint Martins comes to 37.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 7.8 violent incidents and 15.3 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint Martins?
Police record other Criminal Code offences most, 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of mischief (5.1) and Criminal Code traffic offences (4.4).
Is crime going up in Saint Martins?
Hardly at all, from 44.2 in 2023 to 44.1 in 2025.
How much of Saint Martins’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 22% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 49% of violent crime and 12% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint Martins 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).