Table 5
Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes, by census metropolitan area and Canadian Forces Military Police, 2021 to 2023
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | number | number | rate in % per 100,000 population | rate in % per 100,000 population | rate in % per 100,000 population | |
| Canada | 3,355 | 3,612 | 4,777 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 12.0 |
| Census metropolitan area1 | ||||||
| Abbotsford–Mission | 16 | 24 | 26 | 7.8 | 11.6 | 12.2 |
| Barrie | 17 | 12 | 16 | 6.4 | 4.4 | 5.6 |
| Belleville–Quinte West | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
| Brantford | 7 | 27 | 24 | 4.7 | 17.4 | 14.9 |
| Calgary | 139 | 139 | 151 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 9.0 |
| Chilliwack2 | 22 | 13 | 17 | 18.4 | 10.6 | 13.5 |
| Drummondville2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5.5 | 3.6 | 6.2 |
| Edmonton | 116 | 87 | 137 | 7.8 | 5.8 | 8.7 |
| Fredericton2 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 5.0 | 12.2 | 10.3 |
| Gatineau3 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 6.6 | 7.7 | 8.4 |
| Greater Sudbury | 10 | 32 | 31 | 5.5 | 17.3 | 16.4 |
| Guelph | 7 | 10 | 16 | 4.7 | 6.5 | 10.2 |
| Halifax | 19 | 72 | 121 | 3.9 | 14.4 | 23.3 |
| Hamilton4 | 90 | 124 | 121 | 15.1 | 20.6 | 19.7 |
| Kamloops2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| Kelowna | 25 | 11 | 13 | 10.8 | 4.6 | 5.3 |
| Kingston | 32 | 41 | 44 | 18.0 | 22.5 | 23.6 |
| Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo | 77 | 146 | 229 | 12.5 | 22.9 | 33.9 |
| Lethbridge | 10 | 11 | 12 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.9 |
| London | 82 | 80 | 113 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 18.5 |
| Moncton | 6 | 7 | 21 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 11.2 |
| Montréal | 263 | 243 | 482 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 10.6 |
| Nanaimo2 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 7.5 | 13.0 | 8.8 |
| Ottawa5 | 261 | 324 | 379 | 22.2 | 27.0 | 30.5 |
| Peterborough | 21 | 19 | 47 | 15.9 | 14.0 | 33.5 |
| Québec | 74 | 59 | 109 | 8.9 | 7.0 | 12.6 |
| Red Deer2 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 13.4 | 12.4 | 8.2 |
| Regina | 10 | 18 | 21 | 3.9 | 6.9 | 7.7 |
| Saguenay | 6 | 14 | 8 | 3.6 | 8.2 | 4.6 |
| Saint John | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 6.3 |
| Saskatoon | 22 | 46 | 66 | 6.6 | 13.5 | 18.5 |
| Sherbrooke | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 4.1 |
| St. Catharines–Niagara | 23 | 33 | 34 | 4.6 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| St. John's | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Thunder Bay | 10 | 14 | 14 | 7.9 | 10.9 | 10.8 |
| Toronto6 | 780 | 872 | 1,082 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 17.8 |
| Trois-Rivières | 18 | 11 | 16 | 11.2 | 6.7 | 9.6 |
| Vancouver | 439 | 370 | 483 | 15.8 | 13.0 | 16.3 |
| Victoria | 43 | 39 | 52 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 12.0 |
| Windsor | 33 | 22 | 36 | 8.1 | 4.9 | 7.7 |
| Winnipeg | 39 | 32 | 51 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 5.8 |
| Total CMA7 | 2,875 | 3,130 | 4,184 | 10.2 | 10.8 | 14.0 |
| Total non-CMA | 470 | 471 | 581 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.7 |
| Canadian Forces Military Police | 10 | 11 | 12 | ... | ... | ... |
...
not applicable
Note(s):
CMA refers to a census metropolitan area. Hate crime counts from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate crime incidents. The table information reflects data reported by police services covering over 99% 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.
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. Coverage for each CMA is virtually 100%, except in Toronto (approximately 90%) and Hamilton (approximately 76%). Coverage for Saint John CMA is virtually 100% for all years, except 2023 (approximately 46%) due to the exclusion of hate crime data for Saint John Police Force.
Table note 2
As of the 2021 Census, Fredericton, Drummondville, Red Deer, Kamloops, Chilliwack and Nanaimo 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.
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