Table 4 
Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2023 

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Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2023
2023 – Crime Severity Index2022 to 2023 – Crime Severity Index2023 – Crime rate2022 to 2023 – Crime rate
  index % change rate % change
Canada 80.5 2 5,843 3
Census metropolitan areas (CMAs)1,2,3        
St. John's 82.5 3 6,408 8
Halifax 72.0 -1 5,665 -2
Moncton 103.3 -5 7,929 -7
Saint John 52.7 1 4,366 5
Fredericton 84.1 0s 6,578 1
Saguenay 51.0 -2 3,305 0s
Québec 52.9 12 3,540 10
Sherbrooke 52.2 3 3,202 -1
Trois-Rivières 60.3 8 3,591 7
Drummondville 74.3 13 4,340 17
Montréal 63.2 2 3,815 6
Gatineau4 61.7 3 3,697 -1
Ottawa5 54.1 4 4,262 8
Kingston 72.2 -3 5,453 -1
Belleville–Quinte West 65.3 -2 5,120 -1
Peterborough 60.2 -4 4,832 -4
Toronto 58.5 11 4,160 15
Hamilton 59.5 5 4,346 6
St. Catharines–Niagara 54.5 -2 4,008 -1
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 75.6 -4 5,470 0s
Brantford 71.2 -5 5,178 -2
Guelph 55.5 -7 4,265 -8
London 64.3 -14 4,970 -9
Windsor 64.2 4 4,625 7
Barrie 48.1 2 3,907 6
Greater Sudbury 74.2 -8 4,990 -2
Thunder Bay 97.8 -4 6,173 8
Winnipeg 129.1 -6 8,193 -6
Regina 111.6 1 7,988 3
Saskatoon 116.3 -1 8,730 5
Lethbridge 129.1 7 9,376 -1
Calgary 71.0 -8 5,470 -7
Red Deer 146.9 -11 12,765 -8
Edmonton 105.0 3 7,463 -6
Kelowna 118.6 -6 9,423 -9
Kamloops 165.3 10 13,116 -2
Chilliwack 156.2 24 11,615 17
Abbotsford–Mission 107.6 23 6,725 15
Vancouver 90.2 -2 5,988 1
Victoria 79.9 7 5,778 2
Nanaimo 125.5 -2 10,200 -9
0
true zero or a value rounded to zero
0s
value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note(s):
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. The crime rate is based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Tables 35-10-0177-01 and 35-10-0026-01.

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 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. The 2021 Census of Population boundary changes have now been incorporated in police-reported crime statistics. Fredericton, New Brunswick; Drummondville, Quebec; Red Deer, Alberta; Kamloops, British Columbia; Chilliwack, British Columbia and Nanaimo, British Columbia became new CMAs as of the 2021 Census. The CMA of Belleville-Quinte West was formerly known as Belleville.

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.
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