Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2017


Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 and percent change in rate 2007 to 2017 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 4 Note 1 Table 4 Note 2 Table 4 Note 3 Total crime (crime rate)Table 4 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 percent change in rate 2007 to 2017 rate percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 rate percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 rate percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 rate percent change in rate 2016 to 2017
St. John's 5,196 -9 -29 1,414 4 2,774 -19 1,008 5 119 -12
Halifax 4,993 7 -37 1,253 22 2,853 1 887 8 260 4
MonctonTable 4 Note 5 7,241 17 Note ...: not applicable 1,363 -3 4,379 22 1,499 25 206 -12
Saint JohnTable 4 Note 5 4,569 4 Note ...: not applicable 1,373 6 2,393 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 803 12 124 -21
Saguenay 3,295 -1 -25 968 -7 1,832 4 495 -6 283 16
Québec 3,193 7 -27 979 6 1,698 1 516 32 244 -9
Sherbrooke 3,347 1 -30 770 6 1,667 -3 910 5 318 -7
Trois-Rivières 3,290 12 -26 919 11 1,748 14 624 6 252 -13
Montréal 3,363 -1 -40 918 2 2,040 -2 406 -2 272 1
GatineauTable 4 Note 6 3,656 -1 -36 1,164 10 1,849 -3 642 -11 357 -13
OttawaTable 4 Note 7 3,555 2 -33 716 16 2,307 -3 532 6 111 -13
Kingston 5,060 7 -12 984 27 3,384 1 693 12 92 -5
Peterborough 4,172 -2 -18 855 4 2,310 -3 1,007 -4 138 -19
Toronto 3,115 5 -27 768 2 2,027 6 320 3 132 -14
Hamilton 3,857 9 -30 821 7 2,532 10 504 8 226 2
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,781 7 -31 592 10 2,664 6 524 11 153 42
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5,205 11 1 1,031 21 3,213 8 962 13 231 -19
Brantford 6,131 -1 -25 1,280 -2 3,912 -2 939 6 236 -6
Guelph 4,942 9 3 827 11 3,221 3 893 31 252 6
London 5,592 2 -21 812 3 3,821 6 959 -14 176 -1
Windsor 4,705 6 -23 709 -2 3,325 7 671 12 206 -10
Barrie 3,501 -2 -40 766 3 1,902 -9 833 14 184 23
Greater Sudbury 5,575 21 1 1,026 6 3,420 29 1,128 15 120 -40
Thunder Bay 6,072 -3 -29 1,505 3 3,165 -7 1,403 2 93 8
Winnipeg 6,991 5 -27 1,328 3 4,894 6 769 1 119 5
Regina 8,681 -7 -26 1,142 -3 5,296 -7 2,243 -9 191 2
Saskatoon 8,694 -3 -27 1,188 -1 5,076 -5 2,430 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 244 -7
Calgary 5,588 2 -9 892 9 4,183 -1 513 23 107 -9
Edmonton 8,614 5 -8 1,194 5 5,167 3 2,253 10 283 -3
Kelowna 8,159 -3 -27 868 -7 5,656 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1,636 -8 713 3
Abbotsford–Mission 6,772 -2 -35 1,074 -5 4,826 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 872 -9 199 -12
Vancouver 6,935 -5 -25 941 -2 4,853 -5 1,141 -7 350 -9
Victoria 5,546 -2 -39 1,196 4 3,558 -3 792 -9 227 -7
Canada 5,334 1 -23 1,098 3 3,245 1 991 1 247 -7
... 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

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 6 for a list of offences included in the total violent crime, total property crime and total other crime categories.

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Note 5

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 6

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

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Note 7

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. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by CMA are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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