Table 4.9
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 4.9
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) 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 4.9 Note 1 Table 4.9 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 28 153 29 153 57 153
Halifax 92 258 67 176 159 216
Moncton 59 425 29 192 88 304
Saint John 20 167 22 175 42 171
Saguenay 75 551 43 301 118 423
Québec 207 307 183 261 390 283
Sherbrooke 45 263 28 153 73 206
Trois-Rivières 58 481 57 439 115 459
Montréal 1,134 297 846 212 1,980 254
GatineauTable 4.9 Note 3 110 334 75 217 185 274
OttawaTable 4.9 Note 4 112 116 76 76 188 96
Kingston 39 285 23 159 62 221
Peterborough 18 174 12 111 30 141
TorontoTable 4.9 Note 5 847 162 761 138 1,608 150
HamiltonTable 4.9 Note 6 129 253 83 152 212 200
St. Catharines–Niagara 94 239 35 85 129 160
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 124 223 71 123 195 172
Brantford 30 215 22 152 52 183
Guelph 19 152 22 163 41 158
London 59 123 61 120 120 122
Windsor 52 177 27 87 79 130
Barrie 40 179 34 145 74 162
Greater Sudbury 36 250 19 123 55 184
Thunder Bay 25 247 18 172 43 209
Winnipeg 197 252 145 177 342 214
Regina 66 256 38 140 104 196
Saskatoon 101 308 71 205 172 255
Calgary 245 161 195 122 440 141
Edmonton 285 205 229 157 514 180
Kelowna 34 215 14 83 48 147
Abbotsford–Mission 48 245 21 99 69 169
Vancouver 309 142 227 98 536 119
Victoria 55 196 50 173 105 184
CMAs totalTable 4.9 Note 7 4,968 208 3,741 149 8,709 178
Non-CMAs total 4,551 448 2,988 279 7,539 361
Canada 9,519 280 6,729 188 16,248 233
Note 1

A CMAs consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMAs 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 CMAs, 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 CMAs typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2

CMAs populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. The Oshawa CMAs is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMAs boundaries.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

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

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one CMAs. This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMAs. Because of these inclusions, the CMAs 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 parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. 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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