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Total motor vehicle thefts
2007 1997 to 2007
number rate 2 % change in rate
Census metropolitan area (CMA)1
Winnipeg
12,548 1,714.1 25.1
Abbotsford3
1,693 1,001.3 -3.3
Edmonton
9,120 832.1 57.1
Regina
1,495 734.8 -50.0
Calgary
7,318 638.6 -15.4
Vancouver
14,411 630.3 -43.8
Saskatoon
1,541 615.7 -1.7
Montréal
22,403 600.6 -38.6
London
2,331 489.0 -31.4
Hamilton
3,400 480.7 -50.8
Trois-Rivières
533 363.2 -31.9
Victoria
1,204 355.4 -6.0
Sherbrooke
524 349.6 -52.5
Gatineau4
860 293.8 -16.9
Toronto
15,392 279.3 -39.9
Halifax
1,035 268.5 -45.7
Saguenay
384 265.0 -53.9
Ottawa5
2,353 264.4 -65.2
St. Catharines–Niagara
1,100 253.5 -51.5
Kitchener
1,186 238.9 -48.6
Thunder Bay
286 233.4 -37.7
Windsor
769 231.1 -29.3
Greater Sudbury
367 225.9 -71.6
Québec
1,585 216.4 -47.4
St. John's
383 209.7 56.4
Kingston3
269 176.0 -51.5
Saint John
170 167.6 8.6
Canada 146,142 443.2 -25.2
1. The CMA of Oshawa is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
2. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population.
3. Abbotsford and Kingston became CMAs in 2001. As such, the percent change in the rate is calculated from 2001 to 2007.
4. Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.
5. Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.
