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B−Safety Grade
Safety in Currie Barracks · Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025

Currie Barracks sits near the middle of Canadian towns for recorded crime

The index that weighs each crime by its seriousness comes to 67.2 here (2023–2025 mean), and to 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Currie Barracks grades B− for safety overall (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.

Crime Severity Index
67.2
2023–2025 mean · Canada in 2006 = 100
Violent crime index
79.4
homicide, assault, robbery and other violence
Non-violent crime index
62.8
property, drugs, traffic and the rest
All recorded crime
53.1
incidents per 1,000 a year · violent 10.6, property 31.9

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. Measured across the Calgary service area: crime severity and crime rate.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Currie Barracks

Less severe than in 2023

From 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025: that is Currie Barracks’s index, against 64.3 and 59.2 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. 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.

Safety Grade

Inside Currie Barracks’s B− for safety

Crime Severity Index (67.2, 2023–25 mean)Less of it than 47% of Canadian towns

How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Currie Barracks 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.

By type

Calgary’s crime, type by type

Theft under $5,00015.7
Other Criminal Code offences9.2
Assault6.7
Fraud4.3
Mischief3.8
Break and enter3.7
Motor vehicle theft3
Drug offences0.9
Robbery0.8
Sexual assault0.6
Criminal Code traffic offences0.4
Homicide0.01
Cannabis Act offences0.01
ViolentPropertyOtherTypical town of 50,000+

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 robbery (0.8 per 1,000 against 0.4), motor vehicle theft (3 per 1,000 against 1.7) and break and enter (3.7 per 1,000 against 2.2). Fraud sits below it.

Every Statistics Canada violation line
ViolationIncidents a yearPer 1,000Cleared
Homicide200.0170%
Sexual violations against children274.70.239%
Assaults against a peace officer445.30.396%
Firearms: use, discharge, pointing138.30.0940%
Robbery1,191.70.836%
Forcible confinement or kidnapping128.30.0875%
Other violent violations241.30.259%
Breaking and entering5,706.73.715%
Possession of stolen property6200.486%
Theft of a motor vehicle4,568.737%
Theft over $5,0001,197.70.86%
Theft under $5,00024,502.715.711%
Mischief5,8633.813%
Weapons violations862.70.693%
Administration of justice violations12,5628.199%
Other Criminal Code violations5540.468%
Drug violations1,3870.992%
Impaired driving1060.0794%
Failing to stop or remain124.30.0841%

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.

Year by year

Currie Barracks’s index fell 15% from 2023 to 2025

Crime Severity Index Canada in 2006 = 100
Currie BarracksTypical town
050202320242025Typical town, 2023: 64.3 Canada in 2006 = 100Typical town, 2024: 59.9 Canada in 2006 = 100Typical town, 2025: 59.2 Canada in 2006 = 100Currie Barracks, 2023: 74.3 Canada in 2006 = 100Currie Barracks, 2024: 64.3 Canada in 2006 = 100Currie Barracks, 2025: 62.9 Canada in 2006 = 100Typical town 59.2Currie Barracks 62.9

Crime Severity Index

202374.3
202464.3
202562.9

The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 74.3, and 2025 the lightest at 62.9. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.

Every year as a table
YearCurrie BarracksTypical town of 50,000+
202562.959.2
202464.359.9
202374.364.3

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 Currie Barracks, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.

What isn’t published

Where Currie Barracks’s figures fall short

Most crime never reaches the police: in Statistics Canada’s 2019 victimization survey, people reported 29% of the incidents they had suffered (24% of violent ones, 35% of household ones, 6% of sexual assaults), so Currie Barracks’s figures count only that share.

Statistics Canada’s count stops at the Criminal Code and other federal statutes; minor offences dealt with under by-laws or provincial laws, as some police services and municipalities choose, are missing from Currie Barracks’s figures.

For fraud the gap is wide: Statistics Canada’s 2019 survey found that 11% of victims told the police, so the counted rate is a fraction of it.

Offence groupOn this pagePer 1,000, Calgary
Violent Criminal Code violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index10.6
Property crime violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index31.9
Other Criminal Code violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index9.2
Criminal Code traffic violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index0.4
Drug violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index0.9
Cannabis Act violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index0.01
Other federal statute violationsCounted: in the Crime Severity Index0.04
By-law and provincial offencesNot in the survey—
Crime never reported to policeNever counted—
Incidents police find unfoundedKept out of the figures—

Statistics Canada: incident-based crime statistics by police service, 2023–2025 means (tables 35-10-0178 to 0185); General Social Survey on Canadians’ Safety (Victimization), 2019 (Juristat, “Criminal victimization in Canada, 2019”); Self-reported fraud in Canada, 2019.

What the police survey covers, at the 2023–2025 rate of each group, what it leaves outside, and how much crime never reaches the police.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Currie Barracks

ABCD
TownPeopleSeverity indexViolent indexSafety
Currie Barracks7,34267.279.4B−
Garrison Woods3,13867.279.4B−
Glamorgan6,47967.279.4B−
Lakeview12,79967.279.4B−
Altadore7,67567.279.4B−
Glenbrook10,18567.279.4B−
Richmond4,81167.279.4B−

6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.

Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • How serious, not how safe. The Crime Severity Index adds up police-reported crime, each kind weighted by the sentences courts give it, so one robbery counts for more than many thefts. In Statistics Canada’s words, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
  • The whole city’s numbers. Without open access to Calgary’s community statistics, the figures here are the city’s, not Currie Barracks’s own.
  • Reading the number. 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.
  • Solved cases. 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.

Questions about safety in Currie Barracks

Is Currie Barracks safe?

The short answer is an index of 67.2 for Currie Barracks (2023–2025), built from 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. The typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3.

What is the most common crime in Currie Barracks?

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 Currie Barracks?

Down 15%: 74.3 in 2023, 62.9 in 2025.

How much of Currie Barracks’s crime do police solve?

Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 35% of crime (49% of violent crime, 28% 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).