Table 1
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2012 to 2022
| Total Crime Severity Index | Total Crime Severity Index | Violent Crime Severity Index | Violent Crime Severity Index | Non-violent Crime Severity Index | Non-violent Crime Severity Index | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| index | % change from previous year | index | % change from previous year | index | % change from previous year | |
| 2012 | 75.5 | -3 | 82.0 | -4 | 73.0 | -2 |
| 2013 | 68.9 | -9 | 74.0 | -10 | 66.9 | -8 |
| 2014 | 66.9 | -3 | 70.7 | -4 | 65.4 | -2 |
| 2015 | 70.4 | 5 | 75.3 | 7 | 68.4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 72.0 | 2 | 76.9 | 2 | 70.1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 73.6 | 2 | 81.3 | 6 | 70.7 | 1 |
| 2018 | 75.6 | 3 | 83.6 | 3 | 72.6 | 3 |
| 2019 | 79.8 | 5 | 90.3 | 8 | 75.8 | 4 |
| 2020 | 74.0 | -7 | 88.0 | -2 | 68.7 | -9 |
| 2021r | 74.9 | 1 | 93.4 | 6 | 68.1 | -1 |
| 2022 | 78.1 | 4 | 97.7 | 5 | 70.9 | 4 |
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Note(s):
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 are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).
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