Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainSpringfield has less crime per resident than 88% of Canadian towns
Scored on crime the police covering Springfield reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A for safety. Recorded violent incidents ran at 7.8 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 15.3, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. 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. Not measured by town: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts (the Hampton detachment area).
What stands out about safety in Springfield
Under the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Springfield, 37.7. Towns its size ↓
Non-violent crime leads the index
Springfield scores 35.6 for violence and 38.9 for other crime; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 86.4 and 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 22% for Springfield (49% violent, 12% 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 Springfield’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Springfield itself, so the grade rests on the nearest 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 Springfield, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Springfield runs highest on mischief (5.1 per 1,000 against 4.2). Assault sits below it.
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.
The detachment closest to Springfield, 16,000 residents, recorded about 130 violent incidents a year, 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.
In Springfield, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (44.2); 2024 was the lightest, at 24.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Springfield | 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 Springfield, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Springfield
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 2 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Severity, weighed. One robbery outweighs a run of minor thefts here, since every crime counts by the sentences courts give it. Statistics Canada adds: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- What 100 means. 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.
- 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.
Questions about safety in Springfield
Is Springfield safe?
Springfield measures 37.7 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 7.8 violent incidents and 15.3 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Springfield?
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 Springfield?
Hardly at all, from 44.2 in 2023 to 44.1 in 2025.
How much of Springfield’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 49% of violent crime and 12% of everything else, 22% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Springfield together with its neighbours or the countryside around it.
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).