Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Per resident, Shediac records more crime than 60% of Canadian towns
Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 72.8 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size. Counting crime the police covering Shediac reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades C+ for safety: #23 of 59 in New Brunswick. Police counts work out at 13.3 violent incidents and 30.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the typical town its size they are 12.9 and 31.2.
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-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Shediac detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Shediac
More severe than in 2023
Shediac’s index went from 66.4 in 2023 to 77.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Of the 40 Canadian towns nearest it in size, Shediac places 23rd from the lowest index. Towns its size ↓
Police clear less here
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 ↓
Property and other crime weigh more
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.
In Shediac, up 17% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
It finished on its highest reading, 77.9 in 2025, having been lowest in 2023 at 66.4. The typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 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). Sexual 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.
Shediac comes 23rd of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 20.5 | 25.5 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 20 | Coaldale Alberta | 9,644 | 57.1 | 45.1 | B |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 9,682 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | Notre-Dame-des-Prairies Quebec | 9,622 | 68.5 | 107.8 | B− |
| 23 | Shediac New Brunswick | 9,849 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| 24 | Saint-Félicien Quebec | 10,143 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 25 | Roberval Quebec | 9,828 | 73.3 | 114.4 | C+ |
| 26 | Revelstoke British Columbia | 9,464 | 75.8 | 69 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 36 | Oromocto New Brunswick | 9,451 | 138.7 | 183.5 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Plympton-Wyoming Ontario | 9,548 | 333.9 | 378.3 | 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 | 9,849 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Shediac | 5,699 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Dundas | 4,733 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est | 8,138 | 72.8 | 74.8 | C+ |
| Cocagne | 2,982 | 34.5 | 31.3 | A |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 3 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- Shared with the countryside. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Shediac together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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 Shediac
Is Shediac safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Shediac scores 72.8 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 13.3 violent and 30.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Shediac?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 9 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (6.9) and mischief (6.6).
Is crime going up in Shediac?
Up 17%: 66.4 in 2023, 77.9 in 2025.
How much of Shediac’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 25% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 49% of violent crime and 16% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town its size.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Shediac 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).