Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2016
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 2015 to 2016 and percent change in rate 2006 to 2016 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 4 Note 1 Table 4 Note 2 Table 4 Note 3 Total crime (crime rate)Table 4 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 percent change in rate 2006 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016 rate percent change in rate 2015 to 2016
St. John's 5,721 -3 -15 1,356 -3 3,414 -6 951 11 134 -11
Halifax 4,663 -4 -46 1,016 -9 2,825 -4 822 4 249 -4
MonctonTable 4 Note 5 6,196 -9 Note ...: not applicable 1,410 3 3,584 -16 1,201 6 231 19
Saint JohnTable 4 Note 5 4,305 -8 Note ...: not applicable 1,207 -16 2,386 -5 713 -1 153 -18
Saguenay 3,319 4 -17 1,033 3 1,756 -3 530 42 241 -2
Québec 3,000 1 -36 932 5 1,675 -5 393 24 269 26
Sherbrooke 3,297 2 -36 714 12 1,718 -6 864 13 342 6
Trois-Rivières 2,946 -13 -37 830 -12 1,529 -20 587 9 289 -6
Montréal 3,389 -5 -44 894 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2,085 -8 411 -3 269 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
GatineauTable 4 Note 6 3,688 -1 -34 1,058 -4 1,915 -1 715 3 413 -8
OttawaTable 4 Note 7 3,492 5 -37 614 -1 2,378 5 501 13 127 -15
Kingston 4,743 -1 -27 770 -6 3,358 -2 615 13 95 7
Peterborough 4,286 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -33 828 10 2,401 -12 1,057 33 171 9
Toronto 2,954 2 -34 745 2 1,899 2 310 10 152 -14
Hamilton 3,502 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -37 767 9 2,302 -4 433 3 220 -6
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,519 -1 -39 535 -5 2,510 -3 474 22 108 -16
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 4,697 2 -17 854 5 2,989 -4 855 25 286 3
Brantford 6,138 7 -28 1,310 4 4,011 5 816 25 250 4
Guelph 4,496 13 1 735 5 3,080 16 682 9 236 7
London 5,503 4 -30 786 2 3,598 6 1,120 -2 179 -14
Windsor 4,425 -1 -33 722 -18 3,104 2 598 12 228 10
Barrie 3,567 -1 -44 741 3 2,094 -4 732 6 149 -13
Greater Sudbury 4,532 5 -23 951 1 2,647 3 935 17 201 -14
Thunder Bay 6,259 2 -29 1,464 3 3,413 -4 1,382 20 85 -19
Winnipeg 6,653 13 -40 1,291 11 4,599 13 763 14 112 -17
Regina 9,253 11 -25 1,137 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 5,697 14 2,418 10 185 -5
Saskatoon 8,942 6 -26 1,193 -4 5,323 6 2,425 11 263 12
Calgary 5,260 -1 -20 764 -3 4,093 -2 403 12 109 -6
Edmonton 8,131 6 -16 1,128 -5 4,962 5 2,042 14 290 7
Kelowna 8,445 2 -27 941 -14 5,718 6 1,786 1 691 -2
Abbotsford–Mission 7,009 -6 -35 1,146 -6 4,896 -6 967 -6 224 -9
Vancouver 7,282 -1 -28 958 -8 5,092 1 1,232 -4 381 -7
Victoria 5,689 -6 -42 1,153 -4 3,663 -6 873 -7 248 -29
Canada 5,224 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -28 1,052 -1 3,207 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 965 4 263 -6
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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 6 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 CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2014, 2015 and 2016 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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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: 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 CMA 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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