Table 1 
Police-reported total arson, by census metropolitan area (CMA),1,2,3 2012 to 2021 

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Police-reported total arson, by census metropolitan area (CMA),,, 2012 to 2021
  2021 2021 2012 to 2021
  number rate average rate
CMA      
St. John's 19 9 8
Halifax 74 16 16
Moncton 44 26 39
Saint John 19 14 17
Saguenay 44 26 32
Québec 172 21 20
Sherbrooke 34 16 22
Trois–Rivières 45 28 33
Montréal 872 20 22
Gatineau4 78 23 25
Ottawa5 130 12 12
Kingston 27 16 15
Belleville6 15 13 12
Peterborough 9 7 9
Toronto 431 7 7
Hamilton 186 24 22
St. Catharines–Niagara 46 9 18
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 113 18 19
Brantford 43 28 81
Guelph 15 10 15
London 183 33 21
Windsor 98 28 20
Barrie 14 5 6
Greater Sudbury 42 25 20
Thunder Bay 29 23 22
Winnipeg 569 68 55
Regina 327 124 64
Saskatoon 107 31 33
Lethbridge6 49 38 18
Calgary 193 12 16
Edmonton 745 50 35
Kelowna 150 66 49
Abbotsford–Mission 93 45 29
Vancouver 1,029 37 31
Victoria 138 33 24
Canada 10,692 28 26
Note(s):
Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada's Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).

Table note 1

A 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.

Table note 2

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

Table note 3

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

Table note 4

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

Table note 5

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

Table note 6

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became CMAs. Therefore, the average rate of arson is calculated from 2016 to 2021.
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