Photo: jockrutherford from Owen Sound, ON · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime in Queensland is close to typical for Canadian towns
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+. Annual rates stand at 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Still, its Safety Grade, B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta), rests on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of Canadian towns.
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. Shared with the rest of the Calgary service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Queensland
Less severe than in 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Queensland moved from 74.3 to 62.9, while 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.
Queensland: B− for safety, and why
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how Queensland 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 Queensland: 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. 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 | Queensland | 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 Queensland, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime across Calgary, 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 Queensland
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland | 4,452 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Deer Ridge | 4,454 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Lake Bonavista | 11,154 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Douglasdale/Glen | 13,333 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Parkland | 3,652 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Deer Run | 3,652 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Willow Park | 6,891 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What 100 means. A reading of 100 is the whole country in 2006. Half of that, 50, means half the severity per resident.
- The clearance rate. 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.
- Severity, weighed. 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.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Without open access to Calgary’s community statistics, the figures here are the city’s, not Queensland’s own.
Questions about safety in Queensland
Is Queensland safe?
On Statistics Canada’s figures, Queensland scores 67.2 on the Crime Severity Index for 2023–2025, with 10.6 violent and 31.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in Queensland?
Police record theft under $5,000 most, 15.7 per 1,000 residents a year, ahead of other Criminal Code offences (9.2) and assault (6.7).
Is crime going up in Queensland?
The reverse: 74.3 in 2023 came down to 62.9 by 2025, 15% lower.
How much of Queensland’s crime do police solve?
35%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ manages 38%. Violent crime is cleared at 49% and non-violent crime at 28%.
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).