Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Upham records less crime than 88% of Canadian towns
Violence accounts for an index of 35.6 and other offences for 38.9, against usual levels of 86.4 and 62.8. On the record of crime the police covering Upham reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A for safety. Annual rates stand at 7.8 violent incidents and 15.3 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 12.0 and 31.2 in 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. Data for crime severity, crime rate and incident counts covers the Hampton detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Upham
Under the New Brunswick norm
The typical New Brunswick town scores 72.8; Upham, 37.7. Towns its size ↓
The non-violent half stands out
Violent crime scores 35.6 on Upham’s index against 86.4 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+; non-violent crime, 38.9 against 62.8. By type ↓
Less crime solved
Weighted by seriousness, 22% of crime in Upham ends in a charge or is otherwise solved: 49% of violent crime and 12% of the rest. Across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more the figure is 34%. 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 Upham’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most: the grade leans on the closest detachment, 11 km from Upham, since none reports under the town’s name.
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.
About 130 violent incidents a year in the area of the detachment nearest Upham (16,000 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.
And about 250 property crimes, plus 160 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Which crimes make up Upham’s figures
Against the typical town its size, Upham runs highest on mischief (5.1 per 1,000 against 4.2).
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.
Year by year in Upham: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (44.2); the low point came in 2024, at 24.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Upham | 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 Upham, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
Crime in the places around Upham
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upham | 1,388 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Norton | 1,416 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Hampton | 4,754 | 74.5 | 74.9 | C+ |
| Hampton | 3,268 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Saint Martins | 1,280 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
| Norton | 1,551 | 37.7 | 35.6 | A |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 4 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Upham
Is Upham safe?
Statistics Canada puts Upham at 37.7 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more sit at 67.2 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 7.8 and property crimes at 15.3 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Upham?
Most often it is other Criminal Code offences: 5.2 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come mischief at 5.1 and Criminal Code traffic offences at 4.4.
Is crime going up in Upham?
Barely: 44.2 in 2023, 44.1 in 2025.
How much of Upham’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 22% of crime (49% of violent crime, 12% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Upham 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).