Table 2.13
Accused of police-reported family violence, by sex of accused and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 2.13
Accused of police-reported family violence, by sex of accused and census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Accused of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Female accused, Male accused and Total accused, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2.13 Note 1 Table 2.13 Note 2 Female accused Male accused Total accused
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 50 48 118 116 168 81
Halifax 82 38 256 123 338 80
Moncton 28 36 99 127 127 81
Saint John 52 80 161 259 213 168
Saguenay 61 74 245 294 306 185
Québec 248 62 994 253 1,242 157
Sherbrooke 21 21 149 153 170 86
Trois-Rivières 68 87 280 367 348 225
Montréal 1,776 87 5,860 291 7,636 188
GatineauTable 2.13 Note 3 189 114 580 355 769 233
OttawaTable 2.13 Note 4 66 13 358 72 424 42
Kingston 35 42 124 150 159 96
Peterborough 20 32 78 132 98 80
TorontoTable 2.13 Note 5 1,106 39 4,510 165 5,616 101
HamiltonTable 2.13 Note 6 104 37 373 136 477 86
St. Catharines–Niagara 76 33 301 137 377 84
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 126 46 331 122 457 84
Brantford 80 115 237 349 317 230
Guelph 17 25 94 146 111 84
London 80 31 369 147 449 88
Windsor 64 42 226 151 290 96
Barrie 26 24 114 107 140 65
Greater Sudbury 46 55 164 202 210 128
Thunder Bay 58 96 227 387 285 240
Winnipeg 151 38 620 158 771 98
Regina 55 45 226 183 281 114
Saskatoon 62 40 264 165 326 103
Calgary 603 83 1,578 212 2,181 149
Edmonton 414 61 1,566 224 1,980 144
Kelowna 68 69 200 208 268 138
Abbotsford–Mission 47 51 239 257 286 155
Vancouver 398 31 1,646 131 2,044 81
Victoria 78 42 280 156 358 98
CMA totalTable 2.13 Note 7 6,562 51 23,556 188 30,118 119
Non-CMA total 6,365 121 19,593 369 25,958 246
Canada 12,927 72 43,149 242 56,076 156
Note 1

A 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

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

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Note 4

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the 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

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: Includes incidents with a single accused and a single victim. In 2016, 74% of family violence incidents involved a single accused and a single victim, compared to 62% of non‑family violence incidents. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common‑law), parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in‑laws). Accused refers to those aged 89 years and younger. Accused and victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes accused and victims of spousal violence under the age of 15 years. Excludes accused and victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused‑victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of accused and victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident‑based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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