Photo: Jack Hope from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Strathcona Park is about average among Canadian towns for recorded crime
On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 67.2, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ sits at 60.3. 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+. Overall, Strathcona Park grades B− for safety (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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. Area behind the crime severity and crime rate figures: the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in Strathcona Park
Less severe than in 2023
In 2023 the index in Strathcona Park stood at 74.3, by 2025 at 62.9. Over the same years 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.
The grade: B− for Strathcona Park
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Strathcona Park’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.
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.
Strathcona Park’s index fell 15% from 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
The first year, 2023, was the heaviest at 74.3, and 2025 the lightest at 62.9. The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Strathcona Park | 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 Strathcona Park, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Strathcona Park
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Coach Hill | 3,383 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Patterson | 4,169 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| West Springs | 11,632 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Westgate | 3,139 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Signal Hill | 13,293 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
6 nearby places have no figure apart from this one: they share a police service.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What the index measures. 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 Strathcona Park’s figures are the whole city’s.
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Canada’s own index has been below its 2006 base of 100 for years, so 100 marks a fixed reference, not today’s national average.
- Cleared, not convicted. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
Questions about safety in Strathcona Park
Is Strathcona Park safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Strathcona Park comes to 67.2. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Strathcona Park?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (15.7 per 1,000 residents a year); other Criminal Code offences, at 9.2, and assault, at 6.7, follow.
Is crime going up in Strathcona Park?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 74.3 to 62.9.
How much of Strathcona Park’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?
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).