Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Per resident, Crescent Heights records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Taking everything together, Crescent Heights scores B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Still, for every 1,000 residents, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, the figures are 10.8 and 25.1. Its Crime Severity Index averaged 67.2 over 2023–2025, against 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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: one figure for all of the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Crescent Heights
Easing since 2023
In 2023 the index in Crescent Heights stood at 74.3, by 2025 at 62.9. Over the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 to 59.2. Year by year ↓
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 Crescent Heights’s grade
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Crescent Heights itself compares.
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: #33 of 474 in Alberta and #1,144 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.
Year by year in Crescent Heights: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (74.3); the low point came in 2025, at 62.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Crescent Heights | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.9 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 64.3 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 74.3 | 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 Crescent Heights, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Calgary’s crime, type by type
These are Calgary’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Calgary runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 1.7), break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.2) and theft under $5,000 (15.7 per 1,000 against 11.5). Fraud sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 20 | 0.01 | 70% |
| Sexual violations against children | 274.7 | 0.2 | 39% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 445.3 | 0.3 | 96% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 138.3 | 0.09 | 40% |
| Robbery | 1,191.7 | 0.8 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 128.3 | 0.08 | 75% |
| Other violent violations | 241.3 | 0.2 | 59% |
| Breaking and entering | 5,706.7 | 3.7 | 15% |
| Possession of stolen property | 620 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 4,568.7 | 3 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 1,197.7 | 0.8 | 6% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 24,502.7 | 15.7 | 11% |
| Mischief | 5,863 | 3.8 | 13% |
| Weapons violations | 862.7 | 0.6 | 93% |
| Administration of justice violations | 12,562 | 8.1 | 99% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 554 | 0.4 | 68% |
| Drug violations | 1,387 | 0.9 | 92% |
| Impaired driving | 106 | 0.07 | 94% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 124.3 | 0.08 | 41% |
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.
Crime in the places around Crescent Heights
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Heights | 6,411 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Renfrew | 6,685 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Eau Claire | 3,733 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Bridgeland/Riverside | 6,860 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Sunnyside | 2,976 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Downtown East Village | 3,524 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Rosedale | 2,507 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The whole city’s numbers. Calgary publishes its community crime counts only to signed-in users, not as open data; Crescent Heights carries the city-wide figures.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Cleared, not convicted. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- What the index measures. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
Questions about safety in Crescent Heights
Is Crescent Heights safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 67.2 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Crescent Heights stands, with 10.6 violent and 31.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Crescent Heights?
The three biggest groups are theft under $5,000 at 15.7, other Criminal Code offences at 9.2 and assault at 6.7, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Crescent Heights?
The reverse: 74.3 in 2023 came down to 62.9 by 2025, 15% lower.
How much of Crescent Heights’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 35%: 49% for violent crime and 28% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
Whose figures are these?
The city force’s, one set of figures for the 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).