Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPer resident, Westmorland records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 58.4 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 67.2 for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. All told, Westmorland grades B for safety: close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Its weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solved, is 28% (the typical Canadian town of 2,500+: 34%).
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: the Sackville detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Westmorland
Less severe than in 2023
Westmorland’s index went from 84.1 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
About the New Brunswick norm
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 58.4 in Westmorland. 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 sits behind Westmorland’s B
How sure: Less sure than most. No detachment reports for Westmorland itself, so the grade rests on the nearest one’s figures, 16 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.
Westmorland’s index fell 24% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 84.1, and 2024 the lightest at 26.9. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, 2023 gave 70.6 and 2025 gave 62.9.
Every year as a table
| Year | Westmorland | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64.2 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 26.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 84.1 | 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 Westmorland, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
What police record in Westmorland, by type
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 3.3 | 0.3 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Robbery | 1.7 | 0.1 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 0.3 | 0.03 | — |
| Other violent violations | 1 | 0.09 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 22.7 | 2 | 6% |
| Possession of stolen property | 17 | 1.5 | 28% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 26.3 | 2.4 | 4% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 2.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft under $5,000 | 51 | 4.6 | 18% |
| Mischief | 53 | 4.7 | 4% |
| Weapons violations | 3.7 | 0.3 | — |
| Administration of justice violations | 19 | 1.7 | 59% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 10 | 0.9 | 7% |
| Drug violations | 10 | 0.9 | 23% |
| Impaired driving | 22.3 | 2 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1.3 | 0.1 | — |
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 Westmorland, 11,300 residents, recorded about 120 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 210 property crimes and 110 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 Westmorland
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmorland | 1,060 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
| Cumberland County, Subdivision C | 6,040 | 93.1 | 86.7 | C− |
| Botsford | 1,240 | 58.4 | 80 | B |
One nearby place has no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
- What clearance means. 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.
- 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.”
Questions about safety in Westmorland
Is Westmorland safe?
Against a typical 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more, Westmorland’s Crime Severity Index stands at 58.4 for 2023–2025. Its police record 10.8 violent incidents and 19.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Westmorland?
Top of the list is mischief (4.7 per 1,000 residents a year); theft under $5,000, at 4.6, and other Criminal Code offences, at 4.5, follow.
Is crime going up in Westmorland?
The reverse: 84.1 in 2023 came down to 64.2 by 2025, 24% lower.
How much of Westmorland’s crime do police solve?
About 28% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 51% of violent and 15% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Westmorland 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).