Table 4
Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes, by Census metropolitan area, 2011 and 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Census Metropolitan Area (appearing as row headers), 2011 and 2012, calculated using number and rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census Metropolitan AreaNote 1 2011 2012 2011 2012
number rate per 100,000 population
Abbotsford–Mission 8 12 4.5 6.7
Barrie 7 6 5.0 3.0
Brantford 7 4 5.3 3.0
Calgary 65 64 5.1 4.9
Edmonton 16 34 1.3 2.8
GatineauNote 2 15 15 4.8 4.7
Greater Sudbury 7 3 4.3 1.8
Guelph 8 5 6.3 3.9
Halifax 24 17 5.9 4.1
HamiltonNote 3 86 126 15.9 23.2
Kelowna 5 3 2.7 1.7
Kingston 6 14 3.7 8.6
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 41 30 7.7 5.6
London 22 28 4.4 5.6
Moncton 6 10 4.3 7.1
Montréal 100 95 2.6 2.4
OttawaNote 4 82 100 8.7 10.5
Peterborough 22 16 17.9 13.2
Québec 21 28 2.8 3.7
Regina 5 5 2.3 2.2
Saguenay 0 1 0.0 0.7
Saint John 0 1 0.0 0.7
Saskatoon 10 4 3.6 1.4
Sherbrooke 9 11 4.7 5.7
St. Catharines–Niagara 19 13 4.3 2.9
St. John's 2 3 1.1 1.6
Thunder Bay 1 20 0.8 16.6
TorontoNote 5 267 277 5.1 5.2
Trois-Rivières 2 1 1.3 0.7
Vancouver 142 123 5.9 5.0
Victoria 12 24 3.3 6.6
Windsor 8 14 2.6 4.6
Winnipeg 27 17 3.5 2.1
Total CMANote 6 1,081 1,155 4.5 4.8
Total Non-CMA 251 259 2.4 2.5
Canada 1,332 1,414 3.9 4.1
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 core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries. In 2012, coverage for each CMA was virtually 100%, with the exception of Saskatoon (99%), Kelowna (97%), Brantford (95%), Windsor (92%), Toronto (91%), and Hamilton (73%).

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Note 2.

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

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Note 3.

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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Note 4.

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

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Note 5.

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 6.

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as 6% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside the boundaries of a CMA.

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Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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