Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2017


Table 3
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime
Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, index, percent change 2016 to 2017 and percent change 2007 to 2017 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 3 Note 1 Table 3 Note 2 Table 3 Note 3 Population Total Crime
Severity Index		 Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2016 to 2017 percent change 2007 to 2017 index percent change 2016 to 2017 index percent change 2016 to 2017
St. John's 208,192 66.8 -15 -33 84.1 -6 60.5 -19
Halifax 431,721 64.4 4 -39 86.7 9 56.3 2
MonctonTable 3 Note 4 159,464 85.8 15 Note ...: not applicable 72.8 -5 90.3 22
Saint JohnTable 3 Note 4 128,726 56.5 3 Note ...: not applicable 71.9 -4 50.8 6
Saguenay 166,715 55.4 -2 -16 59.2 -13 53.9 3
Québec 805,502 48.5 8 -26 63.9 24 42.8 1
Sherbrooke 202,158 51.9 3 -30 59.5 3 49.0 2
Trois-Rivières 157,622 53.1 10 -22 56.8 22 51.7 6
Montréal 4,148,023 58.2 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -39 73.7 3 52.5 -1
GatineauTable 3 Note 5 335,028 56.7 1 -30 68.3 7 52.4 -2
OttawaTable 3 Note 6 1,034,893 50.8 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -33 64.4 2 45.7 -1
Kingston 169,901 61.2 11 -13 61.6 53 60.9 1
Peterborough 125,666 53.4 -3 -14 69.3 -1 47.6 -4
Toronto 6,273,778 48.7 3 -31 71.6 3 40.3 3
Hamilton 771,489 58.4 9 -31 74.7 13 52.4 7
St. Catharines–Niagara 458,986 56.2 12 -30 46.2 20 59.6 10
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 559,714 69.9 14 -2 73.7 23 68.3 11
Brantford 148,605 86.3 -1 -22 94.0 7 83.3 -3
Guelph 135,474 64.3 15 8 58.5 14 66.2 15
London 524,581 69.9 3 -22 60.4 2 73.1 4
Windsor 338,403 71.7 7 -13 64.9 12 74.0 5
Barrie 221,854 45.3 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -33 54.0 15 42.1 -5
Greater Sudbury 164,926 83.5 25 6 75.7 20 86.1 26
Thunder Bay 120,693 85.7 1 -22 140.7 12 65.7 -6
Winnipeg 810,099 106.9 4 -29 153.5 7 89.9 3
Regina 253,630 111.9 -11 -40 104.5 -18 114.3 -9
Saskatoon 328,835 115.0 -1 -27 107.9 -2 117.2 -1
Calgary 1,494,086 81.8 6 -11 73.5 15 84.5 3
Edmonton 1,405,619 112.3 5 -13 107.0 5 114.0 6
Kelowna 200,908 98.2 -2 -24 61.4 -5 111.3 -2
Abbotsford–Mission 190,730 88.8 -1 -39 86.7 7 89.3 -4
Vancouver 2,572,179 88.2 -6 -33 70.4 -2 94.4 -8
Victoria 377,551 62.4 -3 -42 64.8 12 61.4 -7
Canada 36,708,083 72.9 2 -24 80.3 5 70.0 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
... 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

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 census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data for 2014 to 2017 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note: 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. Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes by census metropolitan area are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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