Photo: Jonathan Schilling · CC BY-SA 4.0Per resident, West Springs records about as much crime as the typical place among Canadian towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. In sum, crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put West Springs at B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 67.2 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 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. Source area for crime severity and crime rate: the Calgary service area.
What stands out about safety in West Springs
Less severe than in 2023
West Springs’s index went from 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025; the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved 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.
Inside West Springs’s B− for safety
How sure: A less certain grade than most: it reads the city’s overall figure, which can hide how West Springs 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.
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 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.
West Springs’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 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 | West Springs | 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 West Springs, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around West Springs
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Springs | 11,632 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Aspen Woods | 9,606 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Coach Hill | 3,383 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Strathcona Park | 8,680 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Cougar Ridge | 7,101 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Patterson | 4,169 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Montgomery | 4,456 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 6 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- An index, not a verdict. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Calgary publishes its community crime counts only to signed-in users, not as open data; West Springs carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. 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.
- What clearance means. 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 West Springs
Is West Springs safe?
Its police recorded 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes a year per 1,000 residents over 2023–2025, which gives West Springs a Crime Severity Index of 67.2. Set that beside 60.3, the median for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
What is the most common crime in West Springs?
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 West Springs?
It went down 15% between 2023 and 2025, from 74.3 to 62.9.
How much of West Springs’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?
The city police’s, as reported for 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).