Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Westbury sees less crime per resident than 67% of Canadian towns
Counting crime the police covering Westbury reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades B+ for safety. Behind the grade sit 12.1 violent incidents and 11.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 50.5 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ scores 67.2.
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 published for the Haut-Saint-François MRC, not by town.
What stands out about safety in Westbury
Less severe than in 2023
Westbury’s index went from 55.3 in 2023 to 44.4 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ moved from 70.6 to 62.9. Year by year ↓
More crime solved
Police cleared 47% of Westbury’s crime, weighted by seriousness (60% of violent crime, 35% of the rest), against 34% across Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. Questions ↓
Much like Quebec’s towns
Westbury’s index of 50.5 compares with 56.1 for the typical town in Quebec. Towns its size ↓
Heavier on violence
Set beside the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, Westbury’s two halves part ways: 89.1 for violence (typical 86.4) and 35.5 for the rest (typical 62.8). By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Westbury: B+ for safety, and why
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.
Year by year in Westbury: down 20%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (55.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 44.4. The typical Canadian town of 2,500+ went from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Westbury | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.4 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 51.8 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 55.3 | 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 Westbury, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The police area Westbury is part of, 24,300 residents, recorded about 290 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 280 property crimes and 130 other violations a year (2023–2025 average). The grid is 1,000 residents, a coloured dot for each incident a year at these rates.
Westbury’s crime by kind
Assault sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 25.3 | 1.1 | 38% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 5 | 0.2 | 100% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 0.3 | 0.01 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.03 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.08 | — |
| Other violent violations | 8.7 | 0.4 | 61% |
| Breaking and entering | 49.7 | 2.1 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 29.3 | 1.2 | 19% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 27% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 43.7 | 1.8 | 31% |
| Mischief | 46.7 | 2 | 22% |
| Weapons violations | 5.3 | 0.2 | 70% |
| Administration of justice violations | 33.7 | 1.4 | 85% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 4.7 | 0.2 | — |
| Drug violations | 17.3 | 0.7 | 68% |
| Impaired driving | 34.3 | 1.4 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 20 | 0.8 | 22% |
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.
Crime in the places around Westbury
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westbury | 1,207 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| East Angus | 4,261 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Cookshire-Eaton | 5,491 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Ascot Corner | 3,725 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Bury | 1,243 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| Stoke | 3,272 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| Dudswell | 1,850 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
The comparison skips 5 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- 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.”
- Policed as an MRC. The Sûreté du Québec’s figures are for its MRC as a whole, not for Westbury alone.
- The index’s scale. Statistics Canada set the national index at 100 for 2006; every figure here is read against that.
Questions about safety in Westbury
Is Westbury safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 50.5 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 67.2 for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more: that is where Westbury stands, with 12.1 violent and 11.6 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Westbury?
Police record assault most, 5.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of fraud (3.8) and Criminal Code traffic offences (2.6).
Is crime going up in Westbury?
The reverse: 55.3 in 2023 came down to 44.4 by 2025, 20% lower.
How much of Westbury’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 47%: 60% for violent crime and 35% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 2,500+ it is 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A shared service or detachment’s, reported as one for Westbury and everywhere else it polices.
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).