Table 4.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total , calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Note 1, Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total
number rateNote 3 number rateNote 3 number rateNote 3
St. John's 9 62.0 14 121.2 23 88.3
GatineauNote 4 20 95.4 9 52.4 29 76.0
Vancouver 114 65.0 89 58.3 203 61.9
Kelowna 14 75.0 7 43.3 21 60.3
Montréal 224 69.6 107 42.5 331 57.7
Saint John 7 56.2 6 59.0 13 57.5
TorontoNote 5 237 63.1 137 44.9 374 55.0
Edmonton 47 61.3 29 45.2 76 54.0
Moncton 6 51.5 5 53.0 11 52.1
Saguenay 9 55.0 6 44.7 15 50.3
Kingston 10 68.4 3 25.1 13 48.9
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 23 63.3 9 29.9 32 48.1
Québec 44 59.6 18 31.5 62 47.3
HamiltonNote 6 28 60.9 10 27.1 38 45.8
Victoria 15 43.7 14 48.2 29 45.8
Calgary 31 43.8 28 46.9 59 45.2
Abbotsford-Mission 7 53.5 4 34.9 11 44.8
Saskatoon 7 38.2 6 41.8 13 39.8
Trois-Rivières 5 29.4 7 52.7 12 39.6
Regina 6 38.2 5 40.7 11 39.3
Windsor 11 44.0 6 29.0 17 37.2
Peterborough 4 31.2 4 38.2 8 34.3
Brantford 3 26.8 4 43.1 7 34.2
Winnipeg 17 28.6 14 29.6 31 29.0
Halifax 9 30.2 6 24.8 15 27.8
St. Catharines-Niagara 20 44.1 2 5.3 22 26.5
OttawaNote 7 21 30.0 12 21.1 33 26.0
London 11 26.8 8 24.5 19 25.8
Thunder Bay 3 26.6 2 21.6 5 24.3
Guelph 4 42.8 0 0.0 4 24.3
Sherbrooke 5 27.0 3 20.5 8 24.2
Barrie 4 28.0 1 9.0 5 19.7
Greater Sudbury 2 13.7 1 8.5 3 11.4
CMA TotalNote 8 1,002 54.8 582 39.1 1,584 47.7
Non-CMA Total 736 78.2 582 68.3 1,318 73.5
Canada 1,738 62.7 1,164 49.7 2,902 56.8
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.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 seniors (65 to 89 years). Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note 4.

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

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Note 5.

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

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

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

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Note 8.

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one CMA. This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMA. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note: Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners), parents (biological, adopted, step, foster), children (biological, adopted, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), and extended family. Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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