Photo: JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Recorded crime in Wildwood is close to typical for Canadian towns
Overall, Wildwood 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. On top of that, a Crime Severity Index of 67.2, the 2023–2025 mean, compares with 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Its police logs show 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ the numbers are 10.8 and 25.1.
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 Wildwood
Easing since 2023
Between 2023 and 2025, Wildwood 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.
What’s behind Wildwood’s grade
How sure: Not as firm as most grades, since the figure covers the entire city rather than Wildwood 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.
Year by year in Wildwood: down 15%, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its index has not been as high since 2023 (74.3); the low point came in 2025, at 62.9. Set beside it, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ went from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 in 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Wildwood | 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 Wildwood, 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 Wildwood
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood | 4,177 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Spruce Cliff | 6,691 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Rosscarrock | 3,862 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Westgate | 3,139 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| West Hillhurst | 10,319 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Patterson | 4,169 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| University Heights | 4,031 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
The comparison skips 6 neighbours reported under the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Not the neighbourhood’s own. Calgary publishes its community crime counts only to signed-in users, not as open data; Wildwood carries the city-wide figures.
- What 100 means. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- The clearance rate. A cleared case is one police consider solved. Whether anyone is convicted is a separate matter the rate doesn’t follow.
- Severity, weighed. The index weighs crimes rather than counting them: a serious offence moves it far more than a minor one. Statistics Canada is plain about its limits: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
Questions about safety in Wildwood
Is Wildwood safe?
A Crime Severity Index of 67.2 (2023–2025), set beside a median of 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more: that is where Wildwood stands, with 10.6 violent and 31.9 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Wildwood?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 15.7 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come other Criminal Code offences at 9.2 and assault at 6.7.
Is crime going up in Wildwood?
No: the index fell 15%, from 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
How much of Wildwood’s crime do police solve?
About 35% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 49% of violent and 28% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ 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).