Table 6
Victims of violent crime, by type of weapon, by census metropolitan area, 2012
Census metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3 | Firearm | Other weaponNote 4 | No weaponNote 5 | Unknown | Total | ||||||
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number | percent | rate | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
Halifax | 171 | 4.1 | 41.4 | 647 | 15.4 | 3,377 | 80.5 | 0 | ... | 4,195 | 100 |
Moncton | 54 | 2.6 | 38.5 | 262 | 12.5 | 1,775 | 84.9 | 33 | ... | 2,124 | 100 |
Saskatoon | 109 | 2.8 | 38.0 | 897 | 23.1 | 2,883 | 74.1 | 90 | ... | 3,979 | 100 |
HamiltonNote 6 | 181 | 3.4 | 33.3 | 866 | 16.2 | 4,294 | 80.4 | 32 | ... | 5,373 | 100 |
Winnipeg | 243 | 2.6 | 30.1 | 2,329 | 25.0 | 6,748 | 72.4 | 423 | ... | 9,743 | 100 |
Vancouver | 686 | 2.8 | 27.8 | 5,253 | 21.8 | 18,181 | 75.4 | 449 | ... | 24,569 | 100 |
Edmonton | 270 | 2.0 | 22.0 | 2,490 | 18.5 | 10,712 | 79.5 | 417 | ... | 13,889 | 100 |
Calgary | 273 | 3.2 | 20.8 | 1,700 | 20.2 | 6,458 | 76.6 | 675 | ... | 9,106 | 100 |
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo | 108 | 2.3 | 20.1 | 789 | 17.0 | 3,753 | 80.7 | 109 | ... | 4,759 | 100 |
TorontoNote 7 | 1,057 | 2.5 | 19.7 | 7,715 | 17.9 | 34,368 | 79.7 | 798 | ... | 43,938 | 100 |
Regina | 45 | 1.5 | 19.7 | 734 | 25.1 | 2,144 | 73.3 | 83 | ... | 3,006 | 100 |
Saint John | 28 | 1.5 | 19.0 | 199 | 10.5 | 1,671 | 88.0 | 82 | ... | 1,980 | 100 |
London | 93 | 2.5 | 18.5 | 673 | 18.4 | 2,897 | 79.1 | 74 | ... | 3,737 | 100 |
Abbotsford-Mission | 31 | 2.1 | 17.3 | 294 | 19.8 | 1,161 | 78.1 | 17 | ... | 1,503 | 100 |
Brantford | 23 | 1.6 | 17.1 | 182 | 12.4 | 1,263 | 86.0 | 11 | ... | 1,479 | 100 |
Windsor | 49 | 1.6 | 16.1 | 445 | 14.8 | 2,519 | 83.6 | 5 | ... | 3,018 | 100 |
OttawaNote 8 | 142 | 2.6 | 14.8 | 992 | 17.9 | 4,416 | 79.6 | 34 | ... | 5,584 | 100 |
Peterborough | 18 | 1.9 | 14.8 | 177 | 18.7 | 750 | 79.4 | 12 | ... | 957 | 100 |
Kelowna | 26 | 1.0 | 14.6 | 355 | 14.3 | 2,102 | 84.7 | 31 | ... | 2,514 | 100 |
St. Catharines-Niagara | 59 | 1.8 | 13.2 | 504 | 15.0 | 2,792 | 83.2 | 22 | ... | 3,377 | 100 |
Guelph | 13 | 1.2 | 10.2 | 106 | 9.8 | 960 | 89.0 | 1 | ... | 1,080 | 100 |
Barrie | 17 | 1.7 | 8.4 | 163 | 16.2 | 826 | 82.1 | 20 | ... | 1,026 | 100 |
Victoria | 30 | 0.9 | 8.3 | 484 | 14.7 | 2,783 | 84.4 | 32 | ... | 3,329 | 100 |
Kingston | 12 | 0.9 | 7.4 | 178 | 13.7 | 1,108 | 85.4 | 15 | ... | 1,313 | 100 |
Thunder Bay | 8 | 0.5 | 6.6 | 226 | 13.3 | 1,466 | 86.2 | 26 | ... | 1,726 | 100 |
Greater Sudbury | 10 | 0.7 | 6.1 | 287 | 20.0 | 1,136 | 79.3 | 1 | ... | 1,434 | 100 |
St. John's | 7 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 375 | 16.9 | 1,831 | 82.7 | 102 | ... | 2,315 | 100 |
Total, census metropolitan areasNote 9 | 3,914 | 2.3 | 20.8 | 30,139 | 18.5 | 128,838 | 79.2 | 3,677 | ... | 166,279 | 100 |
Non-census metropolitan areas | 1,661 | 1.4 | 21.0 | 17,450 | 14.7 | 99,302 | 83.7 | 3,950 | ... | 122,652 | 100 |
Total | 5,575 | 1.9 | 20.9 | 47,589 | 16.9 | 228,140 | 81.2 | 7,627 | ... | 288,931 | 100 |
... not applicable
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. |
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