Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Shediac records more crime than 60% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Shediac reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C+ for safety: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick. Out of every 1,000 residents, 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 72.8, where the typical Canadian town its size sits at 68.5.
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: one figure for all of the Shediac detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Shediac
Higher than many towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Shediac comes 28th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
More severe than in 2023
From 66.4 in 2023 to 77.9 in 2025: that is Shediac’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 25% for Shediac (49% violent, 16% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Shediac scores 74.8 for violence and 72.6 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
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 Shediac’s C+
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.
Its place: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1,528 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Shediac’s index rose 17% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (77.9); the lightest was 2023 (66.4). In the same years the typical Canadian town its size read 74.3 (2023), then 64.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Shediac | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 74 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 66.4 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Shediac, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Shediac, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Shediac runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.6), mischief (6.6 per 1,000 against 4.9) and break and enter (3.6 per 1,000 against 2.8). Assault and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6.3 | 0.2 | 48% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 17.7 | 0.6 | 90% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.7 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 5.3 | 0.2 | 57% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1.3 | 0.04 | — |
| Other violent violations | 7.3 | 0.3 | 37% |
| Breaking and entering | 104.7 | 3.6 | 9% |
| Possession of stolen property | 53 | 1.8 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 106.3 | 3.6 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 16.3 | 0.6 | 4% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 265.7 | 9 | 20% |
| Mischief | 193.7 | 6.6 | 8% |
| Weapons violations | 6.3 | 0.2 | 43% |
| Administration of justice violations | 54.7 | 1.9 | 74% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 43.7 | 1.5 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 24 | 0.8 | 29% |
| Impaired driving | 76 | 2.6 | 46% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 6 | 0.2 | 5% |
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 to 10,000 people.
Among 40 towns its size, Shediac places 28th
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Ferris Ontario | 5,835 | 17.7 | 27.2 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 19 | Memramcook New Brunswick | 5,616 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| … | |||||
| 21 | Saint Marys New Brunswick | 5,701 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| … | |||||
| 24 | Grand Falls / Grand-Sault New Brunswick | 5,465 | 65.6 | 72.4 | B− |
| 25 | Stonewall Manitoba | 5,443 | 66.3 | 59.7 | B− |
| 26 | Redcliff Alberta | 5,916 | 66.7 | 63.8 | B− |
| 27 | Wolfville Nova Scotia | 5,587 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| 28 | Shediac New Brunswick | 5,699 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 29 | Armstrong British Columbia | 5,643 | 73.6 | 83.6 | C+ |
| 30 | Sainte-Martine Quebec | 5,884 | 75.4 | 130.4 | C+ |
| 31 | Electoral Area B, Peace River British Columbia | 5,814 | 81.8 | 82.5 | C |
| … | |||||
| 40 | The Pas Manitoba | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Shediac in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
About 390 violent incidents a year across the police area of 30,400 residents that includes Shediac, 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 910 property crimes and 370 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 Shediac
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shediac | 5,699 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Shediac | 9,849 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Dundas | 4,733 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est | 8,138 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Dieppe | 35,986 | 113.1 | 113.3 | C− |
1 of the 2 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Shediac. Cocagne, 15.7 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 34.5 to 72.8. 3 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
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Shediac together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
Questions about safety in Shediac
Is Shediac safe?
The short answer is an index of 72.8 for Shediac (2023–2025), built from 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. For Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, the typical index is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Shediac?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 9, other Criminal Code offences at 6.9 and mischief at 6.6, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Shediac?
It has: 66.4 in 2023 became 77.9 by 2025, a rise of 17%.
How much of Shediac’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 49% of violent crime and 16% of everything else, 25% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Shediac 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).