Photo: outofthought · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime in Royal Oak 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+. Taking everything together, Royal Oak scores B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. By contrast, each year brought 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (10.8 and 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. Crime severity and crime rate: one figure for all of the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Royal Oak
Lighter than in 2023
From 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025: that is Royal Oak’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.
Royal Oak: B− for safety, and why
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Royal Oak alone.
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.
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 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 and sexual assault sit 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.
Year by year in Royal Oak: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 74.3 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 62.9. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 2023 gave 64.3 and 2025 gave 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Royal Oak | 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 Royal Oak, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Royal Oak
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Oak | 12,343 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Rocky Ridge | 8,419 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Arbour Lake | 10,454 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Tuscany | 19,986 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Citadel | 10,196 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Scenic Acres | 8,026 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Rocky View County | 50,260 | 137 | 122.9 | D |
The table leaves out 5 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
- Solved cases. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- 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.”
- One figure for the city. Calgary’s community crime statistics sit behind a sign-in, so Royal Oak’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.
Questions about safety in Royal Oak
Is Royal Oak safe?
With 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, Royal Oak comes to 67.2 on the Crime Severity Index (2023–2025); Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more have a median of 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Royal Oak?
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 Royal Oak?
Down 15%: 74.3 in 2023, 62.9 in 2025.
How much of Royal Oak’s crime do police solve?
The weighted clearance rate is 35%: 49% for violent crime and 28% for non-violent. For the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ it is 38%.
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).