Table 5.7
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2014

Table 5.7
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2014
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 59.7 5 41.5 14 51.6
Halifax 13 41.9 8 31.6 21 37.3
Moncton 6 45.9 4 37.1 10 41.9
Saint John 8 73.1 3 33.6 11 55.3
Saguenay 8 47.6 5 35.6 13 42.2
Québec 60 78.5 24 40.0 84 61.5
Sherbrooke 5 26.2 3 19.6 8 23.2
Trois-Rivières 5 28.6 4 28.8 9 28.7
Montréal 233 70.4 162 61.9 395 66.7
GatineauNote 4 13 59.4 12 66.3 25 62.5
OttawaNote 5 19 26.2 17 28.5 36 27.3
Kingston 9 60.0 3 24.4 12 44.0
Peterborough 5 37.9 4 37.0 9 37.5
TorontoNote 6 254 65.0 137 42.9 391 55.1
HamiltonNote 7 22 46.8 18 47.0 40 46.9
St.Catharines-Niagara 16 34.5 7 18.0 23 27.0
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 29 76.9 18 57.4 47 68.1
Brantford 7 61.9 2 21.0 9 43.2
Guelph 3 31.4 2 27.2 5 29.6
London 11 26.0 9 26.6 20 26.3
Windsor 12 46.7 9 42.0 21 44.6
Barrie 11 74.4 6 51.4 17 64.2
Greater Sudbury 3 20.3 4 32.9 7 26.0
Thunder Bay 9 77.1 3 31.0 12 56.2
Winnipeg 24 40.6 12 25.4 36 33.8
Regina 6 37.4 3 23.7 9 31.4
Saskatoon 6 31.7 7 47.1 13 38.5
Calgary 40 53.8 32 50.8 72 52.4
Edmonton 64 80.5 36 53.6 100 68.2
Kelowna 17 87.3 8 47.0 25 68.5
Abbotsford-Mission 12 88.9 6 50.6 18 71.0
Vancouver 105 57.5 71 44.4 176 51.4
Victoria 15 42.7 15 49.7 30 45.9
CMA TotalNote 8 1,085 57.4 672 43.3 1,757 51.1
Non-CMA Total 788 80.8 616 69.2 1,404 75.3
Canada 1,873 65.4 1,288 52.8 3,161 59.6
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. 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 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.

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

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Note 6.

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

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Note 7.

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

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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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