Crime per resident in Sussex Corner runs higher than in 72% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 92.8 and other offences for 84, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. Scored on crime the police covering Sussex Corner reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on C for safety. Year on year, 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. About 28% of crime here is cleared by police, set against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
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 Sussex detachment area: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts.
What stands out about safety in Sussex Corner
Mischief: high for a town its size
Sussex Corner records 10.1 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 86 in Sussex Corner. 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 Sussex Corner’s grade
How sure: Less sure, as Sussex Corner has no detachment of its own in Statistics Canada’s tables and is graded on the closest one’s figures, 3 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.
What police record in Sussex Corner, by type
Against the typical town its size, Sussex Corner runs highest on mischief (10.1 per 1,000 against 4.2), break and enter (5.2 per 1,000 against 2.5) and fraud (6.1 per 1,000 against 5.1). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 11.7 | 0.6 | 60% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 5.3 | 0.3 | 75% |
| Robbery | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Other violent violations | 6.7 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Breaking and entering | 102 | 5.2 | 17% |
| Possession of stolen property | 18.3 | 0.9 | 48% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 43.3 | 2.2 | 15% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 8.7 | 0.4 | 11% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 212.3 | 10.8 | 28% |
| Mischief | 198 | 10.1 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 9.7 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Administration of justice violations | 73.7 | 3.7 | 62% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 27 | 1.4 | 17% |
| Drug violations | 17.7 | 0.9 | 36% |
| Impaired driving | 58.7 | 3 | 55% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
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.
Around 330 violent incidents a year at the detachment nearest Sussex Corner (20,000 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.
Add about 710 property crimes and 320 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
In Sussex Corner, down 6% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its highest year was 2023, at 94.8, and its lowest 2024, at 74.1. 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 | Sussex Corner | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89.1 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 74.1 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 94.8 | 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 Sussex Corner, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Sussex Corner
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
Questions about safety in Sussex Corner
Is Sussex Corner safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Sussex Corner comes to 86. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 16.7 violent incidents and 36.2 property crimes. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Sussex Corner?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 10.8, mischief at 10.1 and other Criminal Code offences at 10, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Sussex Corner?
The reverse: 94.8 in 2023 came down to 89.1 by 2025, 6% lower.
How much of Sussex Corner’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 28% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 49% of violent crime and 18% of the rest, against 34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Sussex Corner 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).