Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAntigonish County, Subdivision B is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Recorded violent incidents ran at 12.9 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 27.5, against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. By contrast, its Safety Grade, B− (#11 of 88 in Nova Scotia), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns. A Crime Severity Index of 66.6, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 68.5 for the typical Canadian town its size.
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. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Antigonish County detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Antigonish County, Subdivision B
Mischief: high for a town its size
Antigonish County, Subdivision B records 9.7 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.9 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. By type ↓
Up since 2023
From 54.6 in 2023 to 67.3 in 2025: that is Antigonish County, Subdivision B’s index, against 74.3 and 64.2 for the typical Canadian town its size. Year by year ↓
In the middle of towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Antigonish County, Subdivision B comes 21st, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Close to Nova Scotia’s typical town
The typical Nova Scotia town scores 71.4; Antigonish County, Subdivision B, 66.6. 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.
The grade: B− for Antigonish County, Subdivision B
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: #11 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,018 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Year by year in Antigonish County, Subdivision B: up 23%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The middle year, 2024, was the heaviest at 77.8; 2023 was lightest, at 54.6. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town its size went from 74.3 in 2023 to 64.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Antigonish County, Subdivision B | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.3 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 77.8 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 54.6 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Antigonish County, Subdivision B, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in Antigonish County, Subdivision B, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Antigonish County, Subdivision B runs highest on mischief (9.7 per 1,000 against 4.9) and drug offences (1 per 1,000 against 0.7). Motor vehicle theft and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 4 | 0.2 | — |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 0.08 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2.3 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 3 | 0.2 | — |
| Breaking and entering | 44 | 2.7 | 24% |
| Possession of stolen property | 5 | 0.3 | 46% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 32.3 | 2 | 26% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 7 | 0.4 | 24% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 137.7 | 8.4 | 20% |
| Mischief | 160 | 9.7 | 17% |
| Weapons violations | 5 | 0.3 | 40% |
| Administration of justice violations | 49.7 | 3 | 54% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 16 | 1 | 27% |
| Drug violations | 16 | 1 | 23% |
| Impaired driving | 76.3 | 4.7 | 35% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 1 | 0.06 | — |
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 to 10,000 people.
Antigonish County, Subdivision B is 21st of 40 towns its size, lowest index first
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beresford New Brunswick | 6,543 | 25 | 35.4 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 18 | Princeville Quebec | 6,400 | 55.6 | 81.9 | B |
| 19 | Oliver Paipoonge Ontario | 6,524 | 62.7 | 107.8 | B− |
| 20 | Electoral Area A, Cariboo British Columbia | 6,172 | 63.3 | 76.4 | B− |
| 21 | Antigonish County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,486 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| 22 | Mont-Joli Quebec | 6,492 | 67.8 | 133.2 | B− |
| 23 | Humboldt Saskatchewan | 6,551 | 71.5 | 72.5 | C+ |
| 24 | Kings County, Subdivision D Nova Scotia | 6,517 | 72.3 | 91.5 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 27 | Barrington Nova Scotia | 6,720 | 76.1 | 96.9 | C+ |
| … | |||||
| 30 | Pictou County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,575 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| 31 | Pictou County, Subdivision B Nova Scotia | 6,482 | 83.9 | 99.7 | C |
| … | |||||
| 35 | Annapolis County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,719 | 96 | 107.6 | C− |
| … | |||||
| 40 | St. Paul Alberta | 6,218 | 364.7 | 364.4 | 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 Antigonish County, Subdivision B in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
16,600 residents, about 210 violent incidents a year: the police area Antigonish County, Subdivision B belongs to, 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 450 property crimes, plus 240 other violations, a year (2023–2025 average). Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot, one incident a year at the area’s rates.
Crime in the places around Antigonish County, Subdivision B
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antigonish County, Subdivision B | 6,486 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| Antigonish (18 km) | 5,175 | 115.4 | 123.5 | C− |
| Antigonish County, Subdivision A (22 km) | 9,682 | 66.6 | 81.7 | B− |
| Port Hawkesbury (32 km) | 3,442 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| Inverness County, Subdivision C (34 km) | 3,314 | 68.4 | 80 | B− |
| Guysborough (46 km) | 4,721 | 52.9 | 57 | B+ |
1 of the 4 neighbours with their own figures score lower than Antigonish County, Subdivision B. Guysborough, 46.1 km away, is the nearest lower one, at 52.9 to 66.6. One place nearby is policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means. Distances here run 18–46 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Antigonish County, Subdivision B.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Town and surroundings together. Detachment figures cover the detachment’s whole area: Antigonish County, Subdivision B together with the countryside and smaller places it polices.
- Reading the number. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Antigonish County, Subdivision B
Is Antigonish County, Subdivision B safe?
Antigonish County, Subdivision B measures 66.6 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, next to 68.5 for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Per 1,000 residents a year, its police record 12.9 violent incidents and 27.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Antigonish County, Subdivision B?
The three biggest groups are mischief at 9.7, theft under $5,000 at 8.4 and other Criminal Code offences at 7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Antigonish County, Subdivision B?
Up 23%: 54.6 in 2023, 67.3 in 2025.
How much of Antigonish County, Subdivision B’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (56% of violent crime, 23% of the rest). The typical Canadian town its size clears 34%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police serving Antigonish County, Subdivision B 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).