Photo: massage-techniques · CC BY-SA 2.0Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant records less crime per resident than almost every Canadian town
The grade is A+, built on crime the police covering Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant reported from 2023 to 2025: #1 of 862 in Ontario. Property crime ran at 12.9 per 1,000 residents a year, compared with 20.6 in the typical Ottawa neighbourhood. Weighted by seriousness, its crime scores 54.7 on the index for 2023–2025, beside 60.3 for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Add to that, between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 55.8 to 52.2.
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-wide: crime severity and crime rate, counted over the Ottawa service area.
What’s behind Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant’s grade
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: #1 of 862 in Ontario and #1 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.
Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant against the rest of Ottawa
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Ranked from the lowest rate, Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant is 5th of Ottawa’s 103 neighbourhoods, short of the middle.
Ottawa’s neighbourhoods, lowest rate first
| # | Neighbourhood | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bridlewood - Emerald Meadows | 2 | 8.1 |
| 2 | Kinburn | 2.1 | 7.3 |
| 3 | Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights | 2.2 | 10 |
| 4 | Munster - Ashton | 2.2 | 9.4 |
| 5 | Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant | 2.3 | 12.9 |
| 6 | Carp | 2.5 | 10.3 |
| 7 | Chapel Hill North | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| … | |||
| 99 | Sandy Hill | 21.1 | 77.5 |
| 100 | Waterridge Village | 22.7 | 34.6 |
| 101 | Lowertown East | 24.3 | 189.6 |
| 102 | Greenbelt (east) | 24.5 | 47.5 |
| 103 | Lowertown West | 90.7 | 353.7 |
Ottawa Police Service, Criminal Offences Open Data (Open Data Licence – Ottawa Police Service), 2023–2025, placed in the neighbourhoods and divided by their 2021 census residents. Violent: offences against the person.
Ottawa’s own neighbourhood figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Ottawa’s crime, type by type
These are Ottawa’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Ottawa runs highest on theft under $5,000 (16.9 per 1,000 against 11.5) and fraud (6 per 1,000 against 5). Mischief and sexual assault sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 20.3 | 0.02 | 77% |
| Sexual violations against children | 112.3 | 0.10 | 54% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 182.7 | 0.2 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 98.3 | 0.09 | 33% |
| Robbery | 576 | 0.5 | 45% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 72 | 0.06 | 72% |
| Other violent violations | 231.7 | 0.2 | 45% |
| Breaking and entering | 2,537 | 2.2 | 23% |
| Possession of stolen property | 149.7 | 0.1 | 76% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1,875.7 | 1.6 | 9% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 421.7 | 0.4 | 10% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 19,538.7 | 16.9 | 14% |
| Mischief | 3,556.7 | 3.1 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 238 | 0.2 | 82% |
| Administration of justice violations | 5,803 | 5 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 542.3 | 0.5 | 52% |
| Drug violations | 457 | 0.4 | 90% |
| Impaired driving | 673 | 0.6 | 98% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 31 | 0.03 | 38% |
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.
Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, year by year
Crime Severity Index
At 56, 2024 topped the three years, and 2025 was lowest at 52.2. 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 | Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52.2 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 56 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 55.8 | 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 Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant | 15,509 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Kanata Lakes | 19,861 | 54.7 | 66 | A |
| Beaverbrook | 6,762 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Katimavik-Hazeldean | 11,437 | 54.7 | 66 | A |
| Carp | 5,621 | 54.7 | 66 | A+ |
| Glen Cairn | 14,020 | 54.7 | 66 | B+ |
| Stittsville North | 13,331 | 54.7 | 66 | A |
Same police, same number: 6 neighbours drop out of the comparison for that reason.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. Statistics Canada builds the index from every crime police record, weighted by how seriously the courts treat it, and divides by the population. It adds a warning of its own: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant
Is Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant safe?
Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant scores 54.7 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 8 violent incidents and 30.5 property crimes.
What is the most common crime in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant?
Most often it is theft under $5,000: 16.9 per 1,000 residents a year. Next come fraud at 6 and other Criminal Code offences at 5.9.
Is crime going up in Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant?
It went down 6% between 2023 and 2025, from 55.8 to 52.2.
How much of Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 32% 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 23% of non-violent crime.
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) · Ottawa Police Service, Criminal Offences Open Data · 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).