Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of 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 victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2.8 Note 1 Table 2.8 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 181 172 143 141 324 157
Halifax 359 168 190 91 549 130
Moncton 247 317 129 165 376 241
Saint John 222 342 99 160 321 253
Saguenay 366 445 181 217 547 330
Québec 1,711 428 722 184 2,433 307
Sherbrooke 243 244 92 94 335 170
Trois-Rivières 354 452 163 213 517 334
Montréal 7,841 383 3,739 186 11,580 285
GatineauTable 2.8 Note 3 699 421 336 206 1,035 314
OttawaTable 2.8 Note 4 597 117 246 50 843 84
Kingston 171 204 73 88 244 147
Peterborough 97 154 49 83 146 120
TorontoTable 2.8 Note 5 6,043 213 2,564 94 8,607 155
HamiltonTable 2.8 Note 6 532 190 231 84 763 137
St. Catharines–Niagara 390 170 139 63 529 118
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 533 194 285 105 818 150
Brantford 270 386 126 186 396 288
Guelph 115 171 45 70 160 122
London 416 160 199 79 615 120
Windsor 276 180 128 86 404 134
Barrie 155 143 79 74 234 109
Greater Sudbury 206 248 83 102 289 176
Thunder Bay 248 411 89 152 337 283
Winnipeg 869 219 392 100 1,261 160
Regina 322 263 168 136 490 199
Saskatoon 452 289 217 136 669 212
Calgary 2,135 295 1,132 152 3,267 223
Edmonton 2,108 311 917 131 3,025 219
Kelowna 248 252 127 132 375 193
Abbotsford–Mission 304 332 111 119 415 225
Vancouver 2,412 189 1,064 85 3,476 137
Victoria 383 206 197 110 580 159
CMA totalTable 2.8 Note 7 32,390 254 14,825 118 47,215 187
Non-CMA total 25,406 485 13,784 260 39,190 372
Canada 57,796 321 28,609 160 86,405 241
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, 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: 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). Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused‑victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of 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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