Table 10
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2018


Table 10
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime
Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, index, percent change 2017 to 2018 and percent change 2008 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 10 Note 1 Table 10 Note 2 Table 10 Note 3 Population Total Crime
Severity Index		 Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2017 to 2018 percent change 2008 to 2018 index percent change 2017 to 2018 index percent change 2017 to 2018
St. John's 208,289 75 12 -12 83 -1 72 19
Halifax 430,505 67 2 -30 96 8 57 -1
MonctonTable 10 Note 4 161,122 100 15 Note ...: not applicable 89 21 103 14
Saint JohnTable 10 Note 4 129,790 54 -4 Note ...: not applicable 69 -6 49 -3
Saguenay 168,743 49 -12 -29 63 7 43 -19
Québec 808,905 45 -7 -29 55 -14 41 -4
Sherbrooke 202,593 52 -2 -33 65 10 47 -6
Trois-Rivières 157,208 54 2 -29 69 21 49 -6
Montréal 4,239,709 58 -1 -36 72 -3 53 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
GatineauTable 10 Note 5 333,108 56 -2 -25 73 6 50 -5
OttawaTable 10 Note 6 1,068,569 54 7 -20 68 5 50 8
Kingston 171,043 67 8 -1 66 5 68 10
BellevilleTable 10 Note 7 111,584 61 -20 Note ...: not applicable 69 -42 58 -5
Peterborough 128,932 48 -10 -28 52 -25 47 -2
Toronto 6,274,077 54 8 -20 78 7 45 8
Hamilton 770,987 57 -3 -26 66 -13 54 1
St. Catharines–Niagara 472,448 69 15 -14 53 16 75 15
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 579,145 74 6 7 79 9 72 5
Brantford 148,603 93 6 -11 99 3 90 6
Guelph 140,683 67 1 16 61 2 69 1
London 534,936 76 7 -10 63 1 81 9
Windsor 349,787 85 21 13 74 17 89 23
Barrie 228,602 50 12 -20 53 -2 49 18
Greater Sudbury 168,141 80 5 8 88 15 76 2
Thunder Bay 125,373 94 9 -12 160 12 71 7
Winnipeg 816,741 119 10 -5 161 4 104 14
Regina 258,386 127 10 -23 120 8 129 11
Saskatoon 328,181 118 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -15 109 -2 121 1
LethbridgeTable 10 Note 7 123,335 137 10 Note ...: not applicable 100 14 150 9
Calgary 1,498,941 88 5 4 78 3 92 6
Edmonton 1,425,627 115 1 -6 107 -1 117 2
Kelowna 210,961 101 6 -20 48 -19 119 10
Abbotsford–Mission 195,726 90 2 -37 81 -6 93 5
Vancouver 2,650,798 84 -3 -30 68 -3 90 -3
Victoria 395,651 64 5 -38 60 -4 65 9
Canada 37,058,856 75 2 -17 82 1 72 2
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data for 2014 to 2018 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 5

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 6

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 7

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs.

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Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes by census metropolitan area are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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