Photo: A Disappearing Act · CC BY-SA 2.0Per resident, Fairview records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
For solved cases, the weighted rate is 31%, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Across all the graded crimes, Fairview lands on C+ (#17 of 88 in Nova Scotia): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Recorded violent incidents ran at 13.8 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 37.3, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 94.3 and 62.8.
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 and crime rate for the Halifax Metropolitan Area service area.
What sits behind Fairview’s C+
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Fairview’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
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: #17 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,398 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Halifax Metropolitan Area’s crime, type by type
These are Halifax Metropolitan Area’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Halifax Metropolitan Area runs highest on theft under $5,000 (24 per 1,000 against 11.5), robbery (0.6 per 1,000 against 0.4) and assault (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.9). Drug offences and motor vehicle theft sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 9.7 | 0.02 | 65% |
| Sexual violations against children | 124.7 | 0.2 | 34% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 232.7 | 0.5 | 94% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 44.7 | 0.09 | 51% |
| Robbery | 289.7 | 0.6 | 48% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 59 | 0.1 | 92% |
| Other violent violations | 151.3 | 0.3 | 48% |
| Breaking and entering | 920.7 | 1.8 | 20% |
| Possession of stolen property | 123 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 462.3 | 0.9 | 14% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 200.3 | 0.4 | 17% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 12,134 | 24 | 12% |
| Mischief | 2,574 | 5.1 | 12% |
| Weapons violations | 299.3 | 0.6 | 44% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,638.3 | 5.2 | 81% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 437.3 | 0.9 | 43% |
| Drug violations | 335.7 | 0.7 | 37% |
| Impaired driving | 773.7 | 1.5 | 88% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 36 | 0.07 | 24% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. 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 50,000 people or more.
In Fairview, steady between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
2024 was the peak (73.5) and 2025 the trough (68.7). For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Fairview | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68.7 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 73.5 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 71.9 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Fairview, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Fairview
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 16,296 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Mount Royale | 9,340 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Windsor Park | 13,044 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Westmount | 23,207 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Clayton Park West | 34,404 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| North End | 19,733 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
| Schmidtville | 18,105 | 71.4 | 94.3 | C+ |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 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. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole city’s numbers. The figures for Fairview are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. The index is scaled so that Canada as a whole scored 100 in its base year, 2006: a town at 50 has half that severity per resident.
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
Questions about safety in Fairview
Is Fairview safe?
The short answer is an index of 71.4 for Fairview (2023–2025), built from 13.8 violent incidents and 37.3 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Across Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the median is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Fairview?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 24 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 8 and assault at 6.7.
Is crime going up in Fairview?
It held about level between 2023 and 2025, 71.9 to 68.7.
How much of Fairview’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 31% of crime (49% of violent crime, 20% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city police’s, as reported for the whole city.
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).