Table 6
Canadians' perceptions of crime in their neighbourhood, by census metropolitan area, 2009

Table 6
Canadians' perceptions of crime in their neighbourhood, by census metropolitan area, 2009
Census metropolitan areaNote 1 During the last 5 years, crime in your neighbourhood has…
Decreased Stayed about
the same		 Increased
number (thousands) percent number (thousands) percent number (thousands) percent
Abbotsford–Mission F F 35 36Note * 54 56Note *
Peterborough F F 48 54 33Note E 37Note E
Edmonton 27 3Note ENote * 475 52Note * 329 36Note *
St. John's 7 4Note E 90 57Note * 56 35Note *
Calgary 27 3Note ENote * 525 55Note * 336 35Note *
Vancouver 104 5 1,101 55Note * 690 35Note *
Kelowna F F 75 54 47Note E 34Note E
Halifax 18 5Note E 179 55Note * 109 33Note *
Thunder Bay F F 67 64 33Note E 32Note E
Barrie F F 77 60 40Note E 31Note E
Toronto 268 6 2,677 58Note * 1,371 30Note *
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 26 7Note E 210 58 104 29
Saint John F F 67 67 28 28
Greater Sudbury F F 77 62 32Note E 26Note E
Saskatoon 14 7Note E 124 63 50 25
Winnipeg 30 5Note E 386 64 151 25
Moncton 5 4Note E 81 66 29 24
Victoria 25 8Note E 210 63 79 24
Montréal 282 9Note * 1,868 60Note * 685 22Note *
Hamilton 38 6Note E 390 65 126 21
Regina 19 12Note ENote * 98 62 32Note E 20Note E
Ottawa–Gatineau 75 8 639 66 191 20Note *
Trois-Rivières F F 89 73 23Note E 19Note E
St. Catharines–Niagara F F 229 69 61Note E 18Note ENote *
London 22 6Note E 258 67 70Note E 18Note ENote *
Guelph F F 110 78Note * 24Note E 17Note E
Saguenay 15 12Note E 92 72 19Note E 15Note ENote *
Oshawa F F 237 77Note * 44Note E 14Note ENote *
Windsor F F 190 78Note * 34Note E 14Note ENote *
Sherbrooke F F 97 69 18Note E 12Note ENote *
Québec 62 10Note ENote * 450 72Note * 74 12Note *
Brantford F F 89 75Note * F F
Kingston F F 147 83Note * F F
Total - Canada's provincesNote † 1,567 6 17,279 62 7,105 26
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
† reference category
* significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)
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.
Note: Data from Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut were collected using a different methodology and are therefore excluded. Responses of "don't know" and "not stated" are included in the total, but are not shown separately.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2009.
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