Real estate doesn't have a standardized safety score the way some other rankings do, so the honest proxy is what actually shapes day-to-day life there: streetlights, sidewalks and park maintenance the City of Saskatoon budgets for, plus a newer subdivision layout that keeps through-traffic on collector roads rather than cutting through residential streets.
Willowgrove sits next to University Heights, and the pair share the same family-suburb character: schools within walking distance, parks built alongside the housing rather than added later, and a buyer pool that skews toward move-up families rather than investors, which tends to keep turnover lower than in an older core neighbourhood.
None of that replaces walking the specific street yourself before you buy or list there, since block-to-block differences exist even in a newer, planned subdivision, and only a real comparison against the city's $444,700 tells you what a specific house is worth. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.