Photo: ...some guy · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Tracadie records more crime than 78% of Canadian towns
Against usual levels of 89.4 and 56, violent and non-violent offences here reach 118.2 and 89.5. On the record of crime the police covering Tracadie reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes C− for safety: #47 of 59 in New Brunswick. Annual rates stand at 23.5 violent incidents and 32.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 30.5 in the typical town its size. Even so, the index fell from 100.7 in 2023 to 91.5 in 2025.
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 Tracadie Sheila detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Tracadie
Mischief: high for a town its size
Tracadie records 12.2 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.7 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. By type ↓
A higher index than most towns its size
Counting up from the lowest index, Tracadie is 34th of the 40 Canadian towns closest in population. Towns its size ↓
Above New Brunswick’s typical town
Set among New Brunswick’s towns, whose median is 72.8, Tracadie scores 97.1. Towns its size ↓
Less crime solved
Police cleared 23% of Tracadie’s crime, weighted by seriousness (36% of violent crime, 16% of the rest), against 33% across Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people. Questions ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Tracadie
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: #47 of 59 in New Brunswick and #1,926 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Tracadie’s crime by kind
Against the typical town its size, Tracadie runs highest on mischief (12.2 per 1,000 against 3.7), drug offences (1.6 per 1,000 against 0.8) and sexual assault (1.2 per 1,000 against 0.8). 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 | 14.3 | 0.8 | 30% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 8.3 | 0.5 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1 | 0.06 | — |
| Robbery | 1 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 9 | 0.5 | 22% |
| Breaking and entering | 49.3 | 2.7 | 19% |
| Possession of stolen property | 10.3 | 0.6 | 17% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 40.3 | 2.2 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 5 | 0.3 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 123 | 6.8 | 14% |
| Mischief | 220 | 12.2 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.3 | 19% |
| Administration of justice violations | 79.7 | 4.4 | 58% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 57.3 | 3.2 | 32% |
| Drug violations | 28.7 | 1.6 | 7% |
| Impaired driving | 62.3 | 3.5 | 51% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.7 | 0.09 | — |
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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Tracadie comes 34th of the 40 towns nearest in size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester Ontario | 15,475 | 28.2 | 19.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 31 | Sooke British Columbia | 17,248 | 81.4 | 79.8 | C |
| 32 | Whistler British Columbia | 15,090 | 83.8 | 82.3 | C |
| 33 | Brooks Alberta | 17,537 | 91.9 | 120.8 | C |
| 34 | Tracadie New Brunswick | 16,453 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| 35 | Parksville British Columbia | 15,371 | 107.4 | 88.3 | C− |
| 36 | Pembroke Ontario | 15,479 | 112.1 | 153.4 | C− |
| 37 | Kenora Ontario | 15,892 | 127.1 | 186.8 | D |
| … | |||||
| 40 | Cold Lake Alberta | 17,798 | 204.1 | 204.7 | 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 Tracadie in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Tracadie, year by year
Crime Severity Index
From 100.7 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 91.5 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 69.5 to 60.
Every year as a table
| Year | Tracadie | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91.5 | 60 |
| 2024 | 99 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 100.7 | 69.5 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Tracadie, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Around 420 violent incidents a year in the 18,600-resident police area around Tracadie, 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 580 a year and other violations 390 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Tracadie
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracadie | 16,453 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Saint-Isidore | 1,372 | 97.1 | 118.2 | C− |
| Inkerman | 2,462 | 67.1 | 81.5 | B− |
Its police also cover one neighbouring place, which carries the same index and is left out above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Shared with the countryside. The detachment counts crime across its whole territory, of which Tracadie is one part.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Tracadie
Is Tracadie safe?
Statistics Canada puts Tracadie at 97.1 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people sit at 66 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 23.5 and property crimes at 32.2 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Tracadie?
Most often it is mischief: 12.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 12 and assault at 8.1.
Is crime going up in Tracadie?
The reverse: 100.7 in 2023 came down to 91.5 by 2025, 9% lower.
How much of Tracadie’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 23% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (33% for the typical Canadian town its size); split up, that is 36% of violent and 16% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Tracadie 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).