Recorded crime in Willow Park is close to typical for Canadian towns
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. Taking everything together, Willow Park scores B− (#33 of 474 in Alberta): close to the middle of Canadian towns, measured on crime its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Even so, in a usual year, 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, 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. Shared with the rest of the Calgary service area: crime severity and crime rate.
What stands out about safety in Willow Park
Less severe than in 2023
Willow Park’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.
What’s behind Willow Park’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Willow 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.
Calgary’s crime, type 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 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.
Year by year in Willow Park: 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. 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 | Willow 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 Willow Park, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Willow Park
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Park | 6,891 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Acadia | 9,950 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Lake Bonavista | 11,154 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Haysboro | 7,222 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Southwood | 6,092 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Fairview | 3,909 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
| Canyon Meadows | 6,751 | 67.2 | 79.4 | B− |
6 places nearby are policed together with it and reported as one, so there is nothing to compare.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. Weighted like the index, so solving one assault counts for more than solving a mischief; a charge laid, recommended or otherwise resolved all count.
- An index, not a verdict. 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.”
- The whole city’s numbers. Calgary publishes its community crime counts only to signed-in users, not as open data; Willow Park carries the city-wide figures.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Willow Park
Is Willow Park safe?
Willow Park scores 67.2 on Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index (2023–2025 mean), where the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more is 60.3; per 1,000 residents a year that is 10.6 violent incidents and 31.9 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Willow Park?
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 Willow Park?
No: the index fell 15%, from 74.3 in 2023 to 62.9 in 2025.
How much of Willow Park’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).