Photo: outofthought · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Discovery Ridge records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Weighing it all, Discovery Ridge earns B− for safety (#33 of 474 in Alberta), with close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported over 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. By contrast, 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. Data for crime severity and crime rate covers the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Discovery Ridge
Less severe than in 2023
From 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025: that is Discovery Ridge’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.
Discovery Ridge: B− for safety, and why
How sure: Less sure, since one city-wide figure stands behind it, and Discovery Ridge can differ a long way from its city’s average.
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 Discovery Ridge: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
2023 opened the run as its heaviest year (74.3); 2025 was the lightest, at 62.9. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Discovery 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 Discovery Ridge, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
What Calgary’s police record, 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 Discovery Ridge
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Ridge | 4,256 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Springbank Hill | 9,913 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Glamorgan | 6,479 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- How serious, not how safe. 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.”
- One figure for the city. Calgary’s community crime statistics sit behind a sign-in, so Discovery Ridge’s figures are the whole city’s.
- Reading the number. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- Solved cases. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
Questions about safety in Discovery Ridge
Is Discovery Ridge safe?
The short answer is an index of 67.2 for Discovery Ridge (2023–2025), built from 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Discovery Ridge?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 15.7 per 1,000 residents a year, then other Criminal Code offences (9.2) and assault (6.7).
Is crime going up in Discovery Ridge?
The reverse: 74.3 in 2023 came down to 62.9 by 2025, 15% lower.
How much of Discovery Ridge’s crime do police solve?
Police solve 49% of violent crime and 28% of everything else, 35% overall once each crime is weighted by seriousness, against 38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers 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).