Photo: Earl Andrew · CC BY-SA 4.0Carson Grove - Carson Meadows sees more crime per resident than 87% of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 55.8 to 52.2. By contrast, the grade is D, built on crime the police covering Carson Grove - Carson Meadows reported from 2023 to 2025: #833 of 862 in Ontario. Property crime ran at 95.5 per 1,000 residents a year (20.6 in the typical Ottawa neighbourhood). On Statistics Canada’s Crime Severity Index, the 2023–2025 average is 54.7, where the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ sits at 60.3.
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.
Carson Grove - Carson Meadows: D for safety, and why
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: #833 of 862 in Ontario and #2,296 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.
How Carson Grove - Carson Meadows compares across Ottawa
Violent crime per 1,000 a year
Property crime per 1,000 a year
Ranked from the lowest rate, Carson Grove - Carson Meadows is 81st of Ottawa’s 103 neighbourhoods, past 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 |
| … | |||
| 79 | Bells Corners East | 9.1 | 47.4 |
| 80 | City View | 9.2 | 64.1 |
| 81 | Carson Grove - Carson Meadows | 9.7 | 95.5 |
| 82 | Hintonburg-Mechanicsville | 9.8 | 55.9 |
| 83 | Hawthorn Meadows - Sheffield Glen | 10.3 | 34 |
| … | |||
| 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.
What Ottawa’s police record, 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.
Carson Grove - Carson Meadows, year by year
Crime Severity Index
It rose to 56 in 2024 before easing, with the low of 52.2 in 2025. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ moved from 64.3 to 59.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Carson Grove - Carson Meadows | 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 Carson Grove - Carson Meadows, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Carson Grove - Carson Meadows
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carson Grove - Carson Meadows | 11,290 | 54.7 | 66 | D |
| Overbrook | 19,953 | 54.7 | 66 | C− |
| Waterridge Village | 2,737 | 54.7 | 66 | C |
| Vanier South | 7,259 | 54.7 | 66 | D |
| Beacon Hill South - Cardinal Heights | 7,746 | 54.7 | 66 | A− |
| Pineview | 6,346 | 54.7 | 66 | A− |
| Manor Park | 9,491 | 54.7 | 66 | A |
The table leaves out 6 neighbours whose figure is this one, reported by the same police.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. Police clear an incident by charging someone, recommending a charge, or closing it another way. The rate weighs serious crimes more, as the index does.
- What the index measures. 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.”
- 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.
Questions about safety in Carson Grove - Carson Meadows
Is Carson Grove - Carson Meadows safe?
Averaged over 2023–2025, the Crime Severity Index for Carson Grove - Carson Meadows comes to 54.7. Per 1,000 residents a year, police logged 8 violent incidents and 30.5 property crimes. For Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, the typical index is 60.3.
What is the most common crime in Carson Grove - Carson Meadows?
Top of the list is theft under $5,000 (16.9 per 1,000 residents a year); fraud, at 6, and other Criminal Code offences, at 5.9, follow.
Is crime going up in Carson Grove - Carson Meadows?
Down 6%: 55.8 in 2023, 52.2 in 2025.
How much of Carson Grove - Carson Meadows’s crime do police solve?
About 32% of crime is cleared, weighted by seriousness, with 49% of violent and 23% of other crime; the figure for the typical Canadian town of 50,000+ is 38%.
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).