Crime in Deer Ridge sits close to the middle of Canadian towns
Its Crime Severity Index averaged 67.2 over 2023–2025, against 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Deer Ridge at B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Still, typical years here bring 10.6 violent incidents plus 31.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 10.8 plus 25.1 in 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. Source area for crime severity and crime rate: the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Deer Ridge
Easing since 2023
Deer Ridge’s index went from 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved 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 Deer Ridge’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Deer Ridge’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: #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.
From 2023 to 2025, Deer Ridge’s index dropped 15%
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (74.3); the low point came in 2025, at 62.9. In the same years the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ read 64.3 (2023), then 59.2 (2025).
Every year as a table
| Year | Deer Ridge | 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 Deer Ridge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Which crimes make up Calgary’s figures
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 Deer Ridge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Ridge | 4,454 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Deer Run | 3,652 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Parkland | 3,652 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Queensland | 4,452 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| McKenzie Lake | 11,966 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Douglasdale/Glen | 13,333 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Lake Bonavista | 11,154 | 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
- City-wide figures. Without open access to Calgary’s community statistics, the figures here are the city’s, not Deer Ridge’s own.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. Cleared means solved by police, charged or not; it says nothing about what courts decide.
- An index, not a verdict. 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 Deer Ridge
Is Deer Ridge safe?
Statistics Canada puts Deer Ridge at 67.2 on its Crime Severity Index over 2023–2025; Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more sit at 60.3 in the middle. Violent incidents run at 10.6 and property crimes at 31.9 per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Deer Ridge?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 15.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 9.2 and assault at 6.7.
Is crime going up in Deer Ridge?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 74.3 to 62.9.
How much of Deer Ridge’s crime do police solve?
Police cleared 35% of crime once each incident is weighted by seriousness: 49% of violent crime and 28% of the rest, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
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).