Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2014

Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census
metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change in rate 2013 to 2014 and percent change in rate 2004 to 2014 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan areaNote 1, Note 2, Note 3		 Total crime (crime rate)Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change in rate 2013 to 2014 percent change in rate 2004 to 2014 rate percent change in rate 2013 to 2014 rate percent change in rate 2013 to 2014 rate percent change in rate 2013 to 2014 rate percent change in rate 2013 to 2014
St. John's 5,777 -10 -14 1,298 -13 3,798 -10 680 -8 173 -32
Halifax 5,280 -1 -47 1,179 7 3,276 -3 825 1 323 4
MonctonNote 5 5,649 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 1,282 Note ...: not applicable 3,393 Note ...: not applicable 974 Note ...: not applicable 265 Note ...: not applicable
Saint JohnNote 5 4,773 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 1,412 Note ...: not applicable 2,605 Note ...: not applicable 755 Note ...: not applicable 193 Note ...: not applicable
Saguenay 3,228 -9 -21 1,059 4 1,711 -9 458 -30 258 18
Québec 2,977 -8 -34 870 -4 1,785 -10 322 -9 241 7
Sherbrooke 3,333 -9 -40 730 5 1,866 -14 737 -6 372 -5
Trois-Rivières 3,472 -10 -25 871 3 2,096 -7 504 -34 311 -12
Montréal 3,728 -9 -38 882 -2 2,396 -10 450 -13 211 -3
GatineauNote 6 3,682 -6 -38 1,070 -3 1,932 -13 680 12 482 5
OttawaNote 7 3,424 -4 -39 624 -8 2,351 -4 449 4 160 -13
Kingston 4,987 3 -28 920 -8 3,482 8 586 0 132 -22
PeterboroughNote 8 4,473 0 -30 774 -6 2,971 3 728 -5 159 -9
Toronto 2,844 -3 -38 718 -3 1,860 -3 266 4 194 2
Hamilton 3,531 -7 -37 765 1 2,366 -10 400 -4 277 -1
St. Catharines–Niagara 4,117 3 -25 580 -20 3,115 11 423 -5 146 -17
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4,279 -3 -22 770 -11 2,878 -2 630 6 310 -4
BrantfordNote 8 5,602 -10 -34 1,277 5 3,712 -14 614 -13 297 -8
GuelphNote 8 3,745 4 -16 667 -10 2,570 8 508 8 231 -12
London 5,477 5 -18 775 -4 3,543 6 1,159 7 243 -10
Windsor 4,251 -3 -43 831 -7 2,901 -2 519 -3 130 -30
BarrieNote 8 3,754 1 -41 759 8 2,264 -2 731 4 210 -17
Greater Sudbury 4,525 -3 -23 958 -2 2,861 -3 705 -5 237 -30
Thunder Bay 6,402 -1 -30 1,515 -5 3,695 2 1,191 -5 120 -7
Winnipeg 5,398 0 -56 1,071 -5 3,692 2 636 -6 141 -3
Regina 7,858 -4 -47 1,168 -2 4,652 -2 2,038 -9 214 -34
Saskatoon 8,229 3 -39 1,318 0 4,687 5 2,224 1 208 -18
Calgary 4,205 -2 -38 740 4 3,066 -3 400 -2 131 0
Edmonton 6,783 0 -35 1,090 -4 4,053 -1 1,640 4 278 5
KelownaNote 8 7,374 0 -36 1,038 -8 4,792 1 1,544 3 829 0
Abbotsford–Mission 6,496 7 -49 1,137 6 4,361 7 998 8 313 -24
Vancouver 7,425 8 -35 962 -5 5,242 13 1,221 -1 430 -8
Victoria 5,586 4 -44 1,099 5 3,636 2 851 9 409 -2
Canada 5,046 -3 -34 1,039 -5 3,096 -2 911 -5 292 -6
... not applicable
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.

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4.

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 5 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime, total property crime and total other crime categories.

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Note 5.

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2013 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous or future years. Further, data from 2014 onward are not comparable to years prior to 2014.

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

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

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Note 8.

Peterborough, Brantford, Guelph, Barrie and Kelowna became CMAs in 2006. Therefore, the percent change in total crime rate for these CMAs is calculated from 2006 to 2014.

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Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0051). Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. 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 area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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