Garrison Woods is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
Statistics Canada puts its Crime Severity Index at 67.2 for 2023–2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ scores 60.3. Even so, in a usual year, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 10.8 and 25.1. Overall, it grades B− for safety (#33 of 474 in Alberta).
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. Not measured by town: crime severity and crime rate (the Calgary service area).
What stands out about safety in Garrison Woods
Lighter than in 2023
From 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025: that is Garrison Woods’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.
The B− for Garrison Woods, and how it is built
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Garrison Woods 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.
In Garrison Woods, down 15% between 2023 and 2025
Crime Severity Index
From 74.3 in 2023, its first and heaviest year, it eased to a low of 62.9 in 2025. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Garrison Woods | 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 Garrison Woods, 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 Garrison Woods
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrison Woods | 3,138 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Altadore | 7,675 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Richmond | 4,811 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| South Calgary | 4,412 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Currie Barracks | 7,342 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Killarney/Glengarry | 7,935 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Bankview | 5,610 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
Where neighbours share its police, they share the figure too: 6 aren’t counted above.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- One figure for the city. Calgary’s community crime statistics sit behind a sign-in, so Garrison Woods’s figures are the whole city’s.
- Reading the number. 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.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. 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 Garrison Woods
Is Garrison Woods safe?
Statistics Canada puts Garrison Woods 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 Garrison Woods?
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 Garrison Woods?
No: the index fell 15%, from 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
How much of Garrison Woods’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 35% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (38% for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+); split up, that is 49% of violent and 28% of non-violent crime.
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).