Police-reported information hub: Preliminary quarterly hate and cybercrime data

Data Visualization: 71-607-X2025006
Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides an overview of preliminary quarterly data on police-reported hate crime and cybercrime in Canada. The dashboard features statistics on the number of hate crimes reported by police by type of motivation, and the number of cybercrimes reported by police by cyber-related violation. This information is presented on a quarterly and year-to-date basis for Canada and by geographic region. These data are intended as a complement to official annual police-reported crime statistics and will not affect the official annual release. This information offers a preliminary look at hate crime and cybercrime coming to the attention of police throughout the year.
Issue Number: 2025006
Frequency: Quarterly
Main Product: Statistics Canada - Data Visualization Products
Format Release date More information
HTML April 16, 2026
  • Correction: January 15, 2026

    On January 15, 2026, a correction was made to the calculation of the "Change from previous year's year to date total" number of police-reported hate crimes and cybercrimes. The correction impacts data as of the October 16, 2025 release of information. Additionally, a structural formatting change was applied to the "Other violations (derived subtotal)" category for police-reported cybercrime. Specifically, violations for Child sexual abuse and exploitation material and Making or distribution of child sexual abuse and exploitation material now appear as distinct violations and are no longer included in the "Other violations (derived subtotal) category.

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  • January 15, 2026 - (HTML)

    On January 15, 2026, a correction was made to the calculation of the "Change from previous year's year to date total" number of police-reported hate crimes and cybercrimes. The correction impacts data as of the October 16, 2025 release of information. Additionally, a structural formatting change was applied to the "Other violations (derived subtotal)" category for police-reported cybercrime. Specifically, violations for Child sexual abuse and exploitation material and Making or distribution of child sexual abuse and exploitation material now appear as distinct violations and are no longer included in the "Other violations (derived subtotal) category.

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