Table 5
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2012

Table 5
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by census
metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), homicide, sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), robbery, break and enter and motor vehicle theft, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2011 to 2012 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3		 HomicideNote 4 Sexual assault (Levels 1, 2 and 3) Robbery Break and enter Motor vehicle theft
number rate 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 0 0.0 66 24 60 47 717 -8 135 -15
Halifax 12 2.9 83 -4 79 -16 369 -21 133 -14
Moncton 0 0.0 69 -2 37 20 524 17 166 -1
Saint JohnNote 5 2 1.4 50 -35 30 -8 412 8 110 -5
Saguenay 4 2.7 79 74 25 28 529 -17 144 -25
Québec 6 0.8 48 1 39 5 399 -20 130 -8
Sherbrooke 1 0.5 64 22 35 32 442 -6 122 -2
Trois-Rivières 2 1.3 48 -5 36 11 599 -20 178 -20
Montréal 47 1.2 43 -2 119 -18 561 -9 312 -7
GatineauNote 6 6 1.9 56 15 38 -12 578 2 118 -10
OttawaNote 7 7 0.7 42 7 81 -8 295 1 135 9
Kingston 0 0.0 97 34 22 8 378 -19 81 2
Peterborough 2 1.6 68 1 55 6 484 -8 98 14
Toronto 80 1.4 47 1 118 -7 256 -7 130 -13
Hamilton 7 0.9 56 -8 72 -14 394 3 318 -5
St. Catharines–Niagara 3 0.7 65 30 52 6 539 7 186 0
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4 0.7 57 -12 60 -18 368 -1 111 -17
Brantford 0 0.0 72 -25 49 -20 743 21 423 -19
Guelph 0 0.0 79 4 41 51 333 10 82 -23
London 8 1.6 55 3 63 -20 589 -10 211 1
Windsor 3 0.9 59 -1 71 2 506 5 185 30
Barrie 2 1.0 68 33 25 -38 305 -3 84 -18
Greater Sudbury 1 0.6 76 -4 65 -36 596 -21 165 12
Thunder Bay 7 5.8 77 0 100 -30 545 -30 122 -31
WinnipegNote 5 33 4.1 91 -4 240 -7 644 -3 301 -5
Regina 7 3.1 61 -4 124 -17 679 -11 473 -4
Saskatoon 6 2.1 79 -1 162 -4 657 -2 364 -37
Calgary 19 1.4 51 -3 71 -23 429 -3 323 1
Edmonton 33 2.7 85 0 96 -7 470 6 326 -11
Kelowna 3 1.6 63 -21 84 8 724 14 433 -2
Abbotsford–Mission 4 2.2 33 -11 88 14 564 -12 269 -38
Vancouver 37 1.5 43 0 132 -2 696 1 294 0
Victoria 4 1.1 37 -22 68 10 434 9 114 1
Canada 543 1.6 63 -1 79 -8 504 -4 223 -7
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.

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of homicide are not calculated.

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.

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

Note 7.

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

Note: 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 areas are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percentage change 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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