Table 5.6
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016

Table 5.6
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and census metropolitan area, 2016
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 victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 5.6 Note 1 Table 5.6 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 7 43 11 83 18 61
Halifax 13 39 7 25 20 33
Moncton 10 72 12 103 22 86
Saint John 12 103 3 31 15 71
Saguenay 10 56 7 45 17 51
Québec 56 69 22 34 78 53
Sherbrooke 10 49 7 42 17 46
Trois-Rivières 9 49 5 33 14 42
Montréal 272 79 206 74 478 77
GatineauTable 5.6 Note 3 14 59 8 40 22 50
OttawaTable 5.6 Note 4 19 24 24 37 43 30
Kingston 8 51 4 31 12 42
Peterborough 5 36 4 35 9 36
TorontoTable 5.6 Note 5 252 60 161 46 413 54
HamiltonTable 5.6 Note 6 21 43 13 33 34 39
St. Catharines–Niagara 12 24 9 22 21 23
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 20 49 9 26 29 39
Brantford 7 58 8 79 15 67
Guelph 5 49 1 13 6 33
London 18 40 11 30 29 36
Windsor 11 41 5 22 16 32
Barrie 6 38 5 40 11 39
Greater Sudbury 4 26 4 31 8 28
Thunder Bay 5 42 2 20 7 32
Winnipeg 21 34 20 40 41 37
Regina 7 41 3 22 10 33
Saskatoon 11 55 6 37 17 47
Calgary 60 74 43 61 103 68
Edmonton 60 70 40 55 100 63
Kelowna 13 63 5 27 18 46
Abbotsford–Mission 11 76 4 31 15 54
Vancouver 118 59 82 47 200 54
Victoria 31 81 12 36 43 60
CMA totalTable 5.6 Note 7 1,174 58 783 47 1,957 53
Non-CMA total 862 83 692 73 1,554 78
Canada 2,036 67 1,475 56 3,511 62
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: 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), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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