Table 3
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2012

Table 3
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by census
metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), total crime
(crime rate), total violent crime, total property crime, total other criminal code offences and total drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 and percent change 2007 to 2012 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3		 Total crime
(crime rate)Note 4		 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 percent change 2007 to 2012 rate percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 rate percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 rate percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 rate percent change in rate 2011 to 2012
St. John’s 7,056 -3 -4 1,710 8 4,450 -7 896 1 334 -21
Halifax 5,810 -10 -27 1,148 -16 3,765 -11 896 0 339 -6
Moncton 7,039 17 5 1,623 3 4,253 21 1,163 26 270 2
Saint JohnNote 5 5,646 1 -19 1,532 -4 3,236 1 878 7 252 -8
Saguenay 4,101 -3 -7 1,178 12 2,168 -12 755 10 182 -24
Québec 3,216 -11 -27 876 5 2,099 -16 241 -3 229 -15
Sherbrooke 3,925 3 -18 767 3 2,382 1 776 11 398 13
Trois-Rivières 4,192 -6 -6 803 -6 2,686 -5 703 -7 346 -39
MontréalNote 6 4,541 -5 -19 959 -6 3,041 -5 541 2 210 -6
GatineauNote 7 4,621 0 -19 1,267 -4 2,704 1 650 6 394 -9
OttawaNote 8, Note 9 4,102 -1 -23 644 -2 2,959 0 498 -2 184 -6
Kingston 5,166 3 -11 1,092 5 3,528 0 546 21 170 0
Peterborough 4,648 2 -9 812 -3 3,151 2 684 8 203 -30
Toronto 3,131 -7 -27 809 -7 2,067 -7 254 -8 214 -2
Hamilton 4,241 -7 -22 857 -19 2,989 -4 396 -2 288 4
St. Catharines–Niagara 4,490 3 -18 814 8 3,228 2 448 7 174 -5
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4,524 -4 -12 912 -7 3,016 -3 597 0 313 0
Brantford 6,921 1 -15 1,321 -8 4,842 7 757 -10 329 -5
Guelph 4,084 3 -15 875 7 2,725 3 484 -2 254 20
London 5,639 -3 -20 890 -7 3,620 -5 1,129 9 264 12
Windsor 4,768 4 -22 970 7 3,245 5 553 -10 200 0
Barrie 4,555 -5 -23 797 -2 2,934 -6 824 -3 255 8
Greater Sudbury 5,061 -6 -8 1,031 -4 3,262 -9 768 1 284 -5
Thunder Bay 7,050 -15 -18 1,467 -11 4,104 -19 1,479 -6 127 -46
WinnipegNote 5 6,222 -3 -35 1,265 -5 4,243 -4 714 5 127 -14
Regina 8,755 -10 -26 1,367 -9 4,988 -12 2,400 -7 459 24
Saskatoon 8,512 -10 -29 1,472 -11 4,684 -14 2,355 0 242 -5
Calgary 4,330 -6 -29 735 -9 3,177 -5 418 -9 141 -6
Edmonton 6,796 -2 -27 1,210 -2 3,955 -3 1,631 -1 244 -2
Kelowna 8,875 6 -21 1,527 -3 5,640 14 1,708 -8 628 2
Abbotsford–Mission 6,148 -7 -40 1,125 -6 4,058 -7 964 -6 464 6
Vancouver 6,958 -2 -25 1,125 -6 4,682 3 1,152 -14 432 -11
Victoria 5,958 -7 -34 1,119 -10 4,082 -2 757 -24 446 -6
Canada 5,588 -3 -19 1,190 -3 3,414 -3 984 -2 314 -5
Note 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. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

Note 2.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

Note 3.

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

Note 4.

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.

Note 5.

With the release of 2012 data, revised population estimates at the respondent level were applied back to and including 2004. This resulted in boundary changes for the CMA of Saint John for 2005 to 2011 and for Winnipeg for 2011. Crime data for these years for these respondents have therefore been revised.

Note 6.

In 2012, it was discovered that the Montréal Police Service had been incorrectly applying the agreed upon definition for reporting child pornography incidents to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. As such, the number of violations has been revised for the years 2008 to 2011.

Note 7.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

Note 8.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

Note 9.

Ottawa numbers also include child pornography incidents reported by the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre of the RCMP which is located in the City of Ottawa. The Centre responds to Internet-facilitated sexual abuse cases nationally. Therefore, while the incidents are detected by the RCMP Centre located in Ottawa and appear in Ottawa’s crime statistics, the incidents themselves or the offenders are not limited to the city of Ottawa.

Note: Police reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with minor offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might chose to deal with some minor offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. 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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