Table 4
Rates of selected Criminal Code incidents, by census metropolitan area (CMA),1 Canada, 2007

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  Total Criminal Code offences (excluding traffic) Total violent offences Homicide Robbery Total property offences Break and enter Motor vehicle theft2 Total other Criminal Code
rate percent change 2006 to 2007 rate
500,000 and over population
Winnipeg 9,644 -12.9 1,082 3.6 268 5,090 1,022 1,714 3,471
Edmonton 9,572 -5.4 1,031 3.3 157 5,166 817 832 3,375
Vancouver 9,136 -11.3 989 2.4 155 5,100 995 630 3,047
Calgary 6,202 -8.4 712 3.1 106 3,825 602 639 1,665
Montréal 5,958 -13.8 777 1.6 133 3,282 755 601 1,899
Hamilton 5,511 -2.2 776 1.6 116 2,985 594 481 1,750
Ottawa3 5,457 -5.1 599 1.6 80 2,915 451 264 1,943
Québec 4,524 -8 645 0 54 2,579 716 216 1,301
Toronto 4,461 -11 709 2 113 2,307 362 279 1,445
100,000 to less than 500,000 population
Regina 11,827 -5.5 1,478 2.5 225 5,703 1,618 735 4,646
Saskatoon 11,560 -5.2 1,612 3.6 272 4,520 899 616 5,428
Abbotsford 10,341 -8.2 944 1.2 103 5,868 1,263 1,001 3,529
Victoria 9,335 -8.5 911 1.2 72 4,941 801 355 3,483
Thunder Bay 8,819 -2.8 1,335 1.6 142 3,942 878 233 3,542
Saint John4 8,292 5.4 1,431 2 59 3,441 649 168 3,420
Halifax 7,954 -8.5 1,145 1.8 119 3,774 670 269 3,035
St. John's4 7,325 8.6 926 0.5 62 3,689 1,028 210 2,710
London 7,296 -10.2 730 1.3 61 3,867 667 489 2,699
Windsor 6,138 -9.3 644 1.2 57 3,321 730 231 2,174
Kingston 5,970 -11.7 689 0.7 37 3,001 546 176 2,280
Gatineau5 5,718 1 796 0.7 44 2,902 852 294 2,020
St. Catharines-Niagara 5,711 -4.6 571 0.7 65 3,206 722 253 1,934
Greater Sudbury 5,627 -9.3 888 2.5 72 2,691 580 226 2,048
Kitchener 4,906 -16.8 565 1.4 54 2,721 487 239 1,620
Sherbrooke 4,831 -10 503 1.3 60 2,512 694 350 1,816
Trois-Rivières 4,478 -8.2 599 2.7 33 2,391 636 363 1,488
Saguenay 4,398 8.1 720 0.7 41 2,107 629 265 1,572
Canada 6,984 -7.4 930 1.8 90 3,320 700 443 2,734

0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Note that a CMA typically comprises more than one police service and that populations for all CMAs have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. Also note that the Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
2. It should be noted that approximately half of the vehicle thefts in Winnipeg in 2007 were "attempts", higher than the national average of about 15%. Both the decrease in the number of "completed" vehicle thefts in Winnipeg, as well as the increase in "attempted" thefts, may be attributed to the new provincial requirement for specific high-risk vehicles to be equipped with immobilizers, rendering these vehicles much more difficult to steal.
3. Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
4. Part of the 2007 increase in crime in Saint John and St. John's can be attributed to changes in police reporting practices rather than actual increases in criminal activity.
5. Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa-Gatineau CMA.
Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. The population estimates come from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Percent change based on unrounded rates.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.