Table 5
Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes, by census metropolitan area and Canadian Forces Military Police, 2020 to 2022
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | number | number | rate per 100,000 population | rate per 100,000 population | rate per 100,000 population | |
| Canada | 2,646 | 3,355 | 3,576 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 9.2 |
| Census metropolitan area1 | ||||||
| Abbotsford–Mission | 8 | 16 | 24 | 3.9 | 7.7 | 11.3 |
| Barrie | 12 | 17 | 11 | 4.6 | 6.4 | 4.0 |
| Belleville2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Brantford | 7 | 7 | 25 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 16.4 |
| Calgary | 144 | 139 | 138 | 9.4 | 8.9 | 8.6 |
| Edmonton | 79 | 116 | 87 | 5.4 | 7.8 | 5.7 |
| Gatineau3 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 7.8 |
| Greater Sudbury | 4 | 10 | 32 | 2.4 | 5.9 | 18.7 |
| Guelph | 22 | 7 | 10 | 15.1 | 4.8 | 6.7 |
| Halifax | 17 | 16 | 72 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 15.0 |
| Hamilton4 | 58 | 90 | 123 | 9.9 | 15.3 | 20.6 |
| Kelowna | 6 | 25 | 11 | 2.7 | 11.0 | 4.7 |
| Kingston | 23 | 32 | 41 | 13.2 | 18.3 | 23.1 |
| Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo | 54 | 77 | 144 | 8.9 | 12.6 | 22.7 |
| Lethbridge2 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 8.4 |
| London | 45 | 82 | 81 | 8.1 | 14.7 | 14.1 |
| Moncton | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| Montréal | 299 | 260 | 238 | 6.9 | 6.0 | 5.5 |
| Ottawa5 | 185 | 261 | 322 | 16.7 | 23.3 | 28.3 |
| Peterborough | 25 | 21 | 18 | 19.4 | 16.3 | 13.7 |
| Québec | 67 | 74 | 66 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 7.9 |
| Regina | 4 | 10 | 18 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 6.7 |
| Saguenay | 0 | 6 | 23 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 13.3 |
| Saint John | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2.3 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| Saskatoon | 18 | 22 | 44 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 12.6 |
| Sherbrooke | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
| St. Catharines–Niagara | 10 | 23 | 33 | 2.1 | 4.7 | 6.7 |
| St. John's | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Thunder Bay | 14 | 10 | 14 | 11.1 | 8.0 | 11.2 |
| Toronto6 | 549 | 780 | 847 | 9.4 | 13.3 | 14.2 |
| Trois-Rivières | 7 | 18 | 11 | 4.3 | 11.1 | 6.7 |
| Vancouver | 372 | 439 | 368 | 13.6 | 15.9 | 12.9 |
| Victoria | 35 | 43 | 35 | 8.6 | 10.4 | 8.4 |
| Windsor | 10 | 33 | 19 | 3.1 | 10.4 | 5.8 |
| Winnipeg | 31 | 39 | 27 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 3.2 |
| Total CMA7 | 2,217 | 2,809 | 3,027 | 8.1 | 10.3 | 10.8 |
| Total non-CMA | 428 | 536 | 537 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Canadian Forces Military Police | 1 | 10 | 12 | ... | ... | ... |
...
not applicable
Note(s):
Hate crime counts from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate-motivated crime incidents. The table information reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada. It includes incidents where hate motivation was unknown. Under the authority of the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal (CFPM), the Canadian Forces Military Police Group is now reporting incidents to the UCR Survey. It has provided incidents going back to January 2020. Data from the Office of the CFPM are aggregated at the national level to account for small counts and to protect confidentiality. Currently, the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics is developing the methodology for determining the population counts for the Canadian Armed Forces. Therefore, rates are not available for this release. The 2022 counts for some police services in the province of Quebec may be an undercount due to a system upgrade issue that impacted complete reporting for hate crime, cybercrime and firearm-related incidents. Corrections will be applied to the revised 2022 data, planned for release in July 2024.
Source(s):
Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).
Table 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 core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this analysis owing to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries. In 2022, coverage for each CMA was virtually 100%, except in Toronto (90%) and Hamilton (75%). The 2021 Census of Population boundary changes have not yet been incorporated in police-reported crime statistics. The geographic boundaries from the 2016 Census are still being used as the base geography and changes for the 2021 Census, including new census metropolitan areas, are expected to be available in 2024.
Table note 2
As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs.
Table note 3
Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.
Table note 4
Excludes the portion of the Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.
Table note 5
Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.
Table note 6
Excludes the portions of the Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.
Table note 7
Includes the Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside a CMA, as 4% of the population policed by the Durham Regional Police Service fell outside the boundaries of a CMA in 2022.
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