Table 13
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by relationship of accused to victim and region, Canada, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020


Table 13
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by relationship of accused to victim and region, Canada, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020, calculated using average rate, percent, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics 2009 to 2014 2015 to 2020 2019 2020
average rateTable 13 Note 1 percentTable 13 Note 2 average rateTable 13 Note 1 percentTable 13 Note 2 number rateTable 13 Note 3 percentTable 13 Note 2 number rateTable 13 Note 3 percentTable 13 Note 2
Canada
Male victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 0.2 1 0.2 1 27 0.2 0 33 0.3 1
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.1 0 0.1 0 10 0.1 0 7 0.1 0
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 1.3 4 1.6 4 215 1.5 4 290 2.0 5
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 0.3 1 0.4 1 75 0.6 1 85 0.7 2
Friend or casual acquaintance 7.9 26 9.3 25 1,363 9.5 24 1,575 10.9 28
Stranger 19.1 62 22.4 61 3,413 23.9 60 3,072 21.3 55
Other relationship 1.3 4 2.3 6 417 2.9 7 396 2.7 7
Unknown relationship 0.4 1 0.7 2 122 0.9 2 113 0.8 2
Female victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 1.5 9 1.7 8 211 1.7 8 240 1.9 9
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.4 2 0.4 2 52 0.4 2 52 0.4 2
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 0.9 6 1.2 7 172 1.2 7 187 1.3 7
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 1.2 7 2.2 11 329 2.6 13 393 3.0 14
Friend or casual acquaintance 2.6 18 3.3 19 519 3.6 20 626 4.3 23
Stranger 8.1 55 8.4 49 1,195 8.2 46 1,125 7.7 41
Other relationship 0.4 3 0.6 4 93 0.6 4 108 0.7 4
Unknown relationship 0.0 0 0.1 0 7 0.0 0 13 0.1 0
Urban
Male victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 0.1 0 0.2 0 18 0.2 0 19 0.2 0
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.1 0 0.1 0 7 0.1 0 6 0.1 0
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 0.8 3 1.0 3 111 0.9 2 162 1.3 4
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 0.2 1 0.4 1 56 0.5 1 69 0.6 2
Friend or casual acquaintance 6.5 21 7.8 21 978 8.1 21 1,102 9.0 24
Stranger 21.3 69 24.4 67 3,146 26.0 67 2,778 22.7 61
Other relationship 1.2 4 2.0 5 279 2.3 6 289 2.4 6
Unknown relationship 0.5 2 0.8 2 111 0.9 2 99 0.8 2
Female victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 1.0 6 1.2 6 112 1.1 6 147 1.4 7
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.3 2 0.3 2 35 0.3 2 35 0.3 2
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 0.6 4 0.8 5 105 0.8 5 112 0.9 5
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 1.0 6 1.7 10 220 2.0 11 270 2.5 13
Friend or casual acquaintance 2.0 15 2.6 16 330 2.7 17 416 3.3 20
Stranger 8.9 65 8.9 57 1,094 8.9 56 1,000 8.0 48
Other relationship 0.3 2 0.5 3 67 0.5 3 78 0.6 4
Unknown relationship 0.0 0 0.1 0 7 0.1 0 10 0.1 0
Rural South
Male victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 0.5 2 0.5 1 6 0.4 1 10 0.7 2
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.1 0 0.1 0 2 0.1 0 1 0.1 0
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 2.3 11 3.1 11 52 2.9 10 69 3.9 11
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 0.3 1 0.5 1 10 0.6 2 10 0.6 2
Friend or casual acquaintance 10.2 49 11.5 43 209 11.8 39 278 15.6 46
Stranger 6.0 29 8.6 32 179 10.1 33 191 10.7 31
Other relationship 1.3 6 2.4 9 76 4.3 14 38 2.1 6
Unknown relationship 0.2 1 0.3 1 7 0.4 1 11 0.6 2
Female victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 3.3 20 3.5 16 57 3.9 17 52 3.5 13
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.6 4 0.7 3 10 0.7 3 10 0.7 3
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 1.7 12 2.0 11 33 1.9 10 32 1.8 8
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 1.9 12 3.0 14 54 3.5 16 63 4.1 16
Friend or casual acquaintance 3.6 27 4.8 26 90 5.2 27 131 7.5 34
Stranger 3.0 22 4.5 25 72 4.1 22 84 4.8 22
Other relationship 0.4 3 0.8 4 15 0.9 5 16 0.9 4
Unknown relationship 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 2 0.1 1
Rural North
Male victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 2.0 2 1.9 2 3 0.9 1 4 1.2 1
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 0.4 0 0.1 0 1 0.3 0 0 0.0 0
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 9.1 14 11.6 13 52 12.0 13 59 13.7 13
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 0.8 1 1.6 2 9 2.5 2 6 1.7 1
Friend or casual acquaintance 33.8 53 40.1 46 176 40.8 45 195 45.2 44
Stranger 13.4 21 22.1 25 88 20.4 22 103 23.9 23
Other relationship 5.2 8 10.8 12 62 14.4 16 69 16.0 16
Unknown relationship 0.0 0 0.5 1 4 0.9 1 3 0.7 1
Female victimsTable 13 Note 4
SpouseTable 13 Note 5 9.4 18 11.2 14 42 12.9 15 41 12.5 14
Ex-spouseTable 13 Note 6 1.3 3 1.6 2 7 2.1 3 7 2.1 2
Other family memberTable 13 Note 7 7.2 17 9.6 16 34 8.2 12 43 10.4 15
Other intimate partnerTable 13 Note 8 5.3 11 13.8 19 55 16.0 20 60 17.4 21
Friend or casual acquaintance 14.4 34 18.7 30 99 24.0 36 79 19.1 28
Stranger 6.2 15 9.5 15 29 7.0 10 41 9.9 14
Other relationship 1.2 3 2.2 4 11 2.7 4 14 3.4 5
Unknown relationship 0.0 0 0.1 0 0 0.0 0 1 0.2 0
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Average rates are calculated per 100,000 population and are based on the total count of victims over the time period divided by the sum of the populations for each year in the six–year time period.

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Note 2

Percent calculation includes unknown relationship.

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Note 3

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 4

The option for police to code victims as gender diverse in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of victims identified as “gender diverse” may exist, the UCR aggregate data available to the public has been recoded to assign these counts to either “male” or “female”, in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims identified as gender diverse have been assigned to either male or female based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender.

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Note 5

Includes victims aged 15 years and older. Includes current legally married spouses and common-law partners, as well as boyfriends or girlfriends of victims living with the victim at the time of the incident. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category "other family". Rates are calculated on the basis of populations aged 15 years and older.

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Note 6

Includes victims aged 15 years and older. Includes former legally married spouses and common-law partners, as well as former boyfriends or girlfriends of victims living with the victim at the time of the incident. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category "other family." Rates are calculated on the basis of populations aged 15 years and older.

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Note 7

Includes victims of all non-spousal family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include parents, children, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws.

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Note 8

Includes victims aged 12 to 14 years who were victimized by boyfriends and girlfriends of, as well as victims of boyfriends and girlfriends of victims aged 15 years and older not living with the victim at the time of the incident. Also includes victims aged 12 and older who were victims of other persons with whom the victim had a sexual relationships or a mutual sexual attraction but to which none of the other relationship categories apply. Rates are based on populations aged 12 years and older.

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Note: Firearm-related crime is the number of victims reported by police in incidents where a firearm was present. Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Rural police services are those where the majority of the population lives outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). Urban police services are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or CA. See "Data sources and concepts" for further information. Rural North includes all rural police services in the Territories or in the Provincial North. Provincial North encompasses the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Rural South refers to rural police services in the southern regions of these provinces as well as Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey trend file.
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