Photo: P199 · CC0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Stanley than in 69% of Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 81.7 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Annual rates stand at 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Graded on crime the police covering Stanley reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores C for safety.
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. Measured across the Nackawic detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Stanley
Rising since 2023
Stanley’s index went from 51.4 in 2023 to 94.3 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
Police clear less here
Police cleared 20% of Stanley’s crime, weighted by seriousness (48% of violent crime, 9% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Stanley’s two halves part ways: 78.9 for violence (typical 86.4) and 83.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Stanley, 81.7. 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 Stanley’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most, because the figures belong to the nearest detachment, 52 km from Stanley, 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.
In Stanley, up 83% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 99.3; 2023 was the lightest, at 51.4. 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 | Stanley | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 99.3 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 51.4 | 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 Stanley, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Stanley’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Stanley runs highest on break and enter (5.5 per 1,000 against 2.5) and mischief (8.3 per 1,000 against 4.2). 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 | 0.05 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 4.3 | 0.6 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 0 | 0 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.3 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0 | 0 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1.3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 38.7 | 5.5 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 9.7 | 1.4 | 24% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 19.7 | 2.8 | 5% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 15.3 | 2.3 | 0% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 54.7 | 7.7 | 8% |
| Mischief | 59.3 | 8.3 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 2 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19.3 | 2.8 | 48% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10.7 | 1.5 | 9% |
| Drug violations | 4 | 0.6 | — |
| Impaired driving | 12.3 | 1.7 | 27% |
| 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 Stanley, 6,710 residents, recorded about 100 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.
Add about 240 property crimes and 75 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 Stanley
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley | 1,041 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
| Douglas (24 km) | 6,840 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Saint Marys (27 km) | 5,701 | 63.2 | 81.9 | B− |
| Bright (30 km) | 3,648 | 81.7 | 78.9 | C |
Every neighbour with a figure of its own has a lower index than Stanley. Closest is Douglas, 23.7 km away, at 63.2 to 81.7 here. Sharing its police with one neighbour, it shares that neighbour’s figure as well, so the neighbour isn’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. The nearest places to Stanley with figures are 24–30 km away.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The index’s scale. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Stanley
Is Stanley safe?
With 14.5 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Stanley comes to 81.7 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 Stanley?
Police record mischief most, 8.3 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of theft under $5,000 (7.7) and other Criminal Code offences (6.9).
Is crime going up in Stanley?
Over 2023–2025 the index climbed 83%, to 94.3 from 51.4.
How much of Stanley’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 20% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 48% of violent crime and 9% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Stanley 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).