Table 2a
Police-reported crime rate, by province and territory, 2012
| Province or territory |
Total crime (crime rate) |
Violent crime | Property crime | Other Criminal Code offences | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | rate | percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 | number | rate | percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 | number | rate | percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 | number | rate | percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 | |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 31,766 | 6,196 | -3 | 7,888 | 1,539 | 1 | 18,836 | 3,674 | -6 | 5,042 | 983 | -1 |
| Prince Edward Island | 9,532 | 6,524 | 4 | 1,707 | 1,168 | 2 | 6,700 | 4,586 | 5 | 1,125 | 770 | -1 |
| Nova Scotia | 60,042 | 6,329 | -2 | 12,954 | 1,365 | -6 | 37,307 | 3,932 | -2 | 9,781 | 1,031 | 1 |
| New Brunswick | 41,723 | 5,519 | 4 | 11,155 | 1,476 | -1 | 24,413 | 3,229 | 6 | 6,155 | 814 | 7 |
| Quebec | 347,650 | 4,316 | -3 | 84,352 | 1,047 | 0 | 217,744 | 2,703 | -6 | 45,554 | 566 | 5 |
| Ontario | 542,445 | 4,016 | -4 | 121,725 | 901 | -5 | 354,166 | 2,622 | -4 | 66,554 | 493 | -3 |
| Manitoba | 111,614 | 8,809 | -2 | 25,858 | 2,041 | -1 | 61,726 | 4,872 | -1 | 24,030 | 1,897 | -4 |
| Saskatchewan | 124,339 | 11,513 | -7 | 23,767 | 2,201 | -8 | 66,849 | 6,190 | -9 | 33,723 | 3,123 | 0 |
| Alberta | 281,329 | 7,262 | -2 | 53,535 | 1,382 | -2 | 166,334 | 4,294 | -2 | 61,460 | 1,587 | -4 |
| British Columbia | 357,192 | 7,727 | -2 | 63,885 | 1,382 | -5 | 217,767 | 4,711 | 0 | 75,540 | 1,634 | -6 |
| Yukon | 7,479 | 20,717 | 1 | 1,457 | 4,036 | -3 | 3,129 | 8,667 | -4 | 2,893 | 8,014 | 8 |
| Northwest Territories | 20,830 | 48,052 | 1 | 3,465 | 7,993 | -5 | 10,414 | 24,024 | 5 | 6,951 | 16,035 | -1 |
| Nunavut | 13,219 | 39,229 | 3 | 3,371 | 10,004 | 2 | 5,587 | 16,580 | 0 | 4,261 | 12,645 | 6 |
| Canada | 1,949,160 | 5,588 | -3 | 415,119 | 1,190 | -3 | 1,190,972 | 3,414 | -3 | 343,069 | 984 | -2 |
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Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 6 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime, total property crime and total crime categories. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for the rates of total, violent, property and other crime categories are available from 1962. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percentage changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. |
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