Table 7
Canadians' perceptions of the prevalence of crime in their neighbourhood compared to other neighbourhoods, by census metropolitan area, 2009

Table 7
Canadians' perceptions of the prevalence of crime in their neighbourhood compared to other neighbourhoods, by census metropolitan area, 2009
Census metropolitan areaNote 1 Compared to other areas in Canada,
the amount of crime in your neighbourhood is…
Lower About the same Higher
number (thousands) percent number (thousands) percent number (thousands) percent
St. John's 133 84Note * 20 13Note * 4 2Note ENote *
Guelph 118 84Note * 18Note E 13Note ENote * F F
Moncton 93 76Note * 23 19Note * F F
Saint John 74 74Note * 22 22Note * F F
Saguenay 94 73Note * 28Note E 22Note E F F
St. Catharines–Niagara 229 70Note * 79 24 F F
Brantford 81 68 31Note E 26Note E F F
Peterborough 60 68 11Note E 13Note ENote * F F
Victoria 226 68Note * 82 25 14 4Note ENote *
Kingston 119 67 50Note E 28Note E F F
Hamilton 401 67 125 21Note * 55 9Note E
London 257 67 94 25 F F
Ottawa–Gatineau 634 65 263 27 55 6Note E
Thunder Bay 66 63 24Note E 23Note E F F
Oshawa 194 63 90Note E 29Note E F F
Greater Sudbury 79 63 36Note E 29Note E F F
Québec 394 63 206 33 F F
Kitchener–Cambridge–
Waterloo		 223 62 91 25 34 9Note E
Toronto 2,776 60 1,213 26Note * 497 11Note *
Sherbrooke 84 59 49 34 F F
Barrie 76 59 47Note E 36Note E F F
Calgary 551 57 281 29 101 10
Saskatoon 112 57 62 31 21 11Note E
Kelowna 79 56 44Note E 32Note E F F
Trois-Rivières 68 56 46 38 F F
Regina 88 56 49 31 16 10Note E
Edmonton 482 53Note * 315 35Note * 98 11
Halifax 172 53Note * 117 36Note * 35 11
Windsor 127 52 104 43Note * F F
Winnipeg 304 51Note * 203 34Note * 74 12Note *
Vancouver 966 49Note * 650 33Note * 330 17Note *
Montréal 1,424 46Note * 1,302 42Note * 244 8
Abbotsford–Mission 35 36Note ENote * 38 39 22 23Note ENote *
Total - Canada's provincesNote † 16,853 61 7,901 29 2,155 8
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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