Table 7
Gang-related homicides, by selected census metropolitan areas, 2013

Table 7
Gang-related homicides, by selected census metropolitan areas, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Gang-related homicides. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), 2013 and Average 2003 to 2012, calculated using number of victims, rate, percent of total homicides and annual average rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaNote 1 2013 Average 2003 to 2012
number of victims rateNote 2 percent of total homicidesNote 3 number of victims annual average rateNote 2 percent of total homicidesNote 3
KelownaNote 4 2 1.08 66.7 1 0.32 18.2
Regina 2 0.85 22.2 2 0.81 23.6
Vancouver 18 0.74 45.0 14 0.60 30.2
Saskatoon 2 0.67 40.0 2 0.89 31.1
Abbotsford-Mission 1 0.56 33.3 2 1.02 38.6
Winnipeg 4 0.50 15.4 6 0.80 23.0
Montréal 16 0.40 38.1 15 0.40 32.8
Windsor 1 0.30 50.0 0 0.12 9.5
Halifax 1 0.24 20.0 1 0.36 16.9
Toronto 14 0.24 20.9 21 0.39 25.6
Edmonton 3 0.23 12.0 9 0.80 28.6
Calgary 2 0.15 8.7 5 0.40 22.5
CMA totalNote 5 66 0.27 20.5 83 0.37 23.6
Non-CMA total 19 0.18 11.9 20 0.18 10.1
Canada 85 0.24 17.6 103 0.31 18.8
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.

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Note 2.

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 3.

Percent calculations exclude those homicides for which information on gang activity was unknown.

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Note 4.

Kelowna became a CMA in 2006. As such, the average number and rate are calculated from 2006 to 2012.

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Note 5.

Includes each of Canada's CMAs. The CMAs presented in this table are only those which recorded at least one gang-related homicide in 2013.

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Note: A homicide is classified as gang-related when police confirm or suspect that the accused person and/or the victim involved in the homicide was either a member, or a prospective member, of an organized crime group or street gang or was somehow associated with an organized crime group or street gang, and the homicide was carried out as a result of this association. Prior to 2005, police were asked if the homicide was "gang-related". Beginning in 2005, the question was amended to give police the option of specifying whether the homicide was: (a) confirmed as gang-related or (b) suspected as being gang-related. As such, figures may be underestimated prior to 2005 due to suspected gang-related incidents that were excluded from the figures.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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