Table 8
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2017


Table 8
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), Robbery, Breaking and entering and Motor vehicle theft, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2016 to 2017 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 8 Note 1 Table 8 Note 2 Table 8 Note 3 HomicideTable 8 Note 4 Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) Robbery Breaking and entering Motor vehicle theft
number rate 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 3 1.44 67 -4 63 -27 381 -37 116 -1
Halifax 8 1.85 95 20 54 17 264 10 78 -13
Moncton 1 0.63 55 28 40 -37 682 21 222 50
Saint John 1 0.78 94 5 51 1 252 9 71 23
Saguenay 0 0.00 59 9 22 34 347 2 154 31
Québec 10 1.24 55 17 23 24 286 -10 66 -6
Sherbrooke 1 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 72 21 20 7 318 11 65 22
Trois-Rivières 1 0.63 58 9 20 54 352 5 117 37
Montréal 46 1.11 58 26 70 -6 363 -6 184 10
GatineauTable 8 Note 5 1 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 58 26 30 -5 279 -13 64 -10
OttawaTable 8 Note 6 14 1.35 64 8 58 15 246 -9 93 6
Kingston 1 0.59 97 56 22 18 336 -15 82 14
Peterborough 1 0.80 99 3 42 1 285 -5 79 40
Toronto 92 1.47 48 7 89 7 215 4 128 12
Hamilton 11 1.43 74 17 88 27 321 4 271 25
St. Catharines–Niagara 3 0.65 59 11 35 12 405 9 168 5
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5 0.89 74 44 62 24 427 20 170 24
Brantford 5 3.36 104 56 63 -7 574 -2 431 -6
Guelph 1 0.74 92 43 31 42 443 26 128 9
London 7 1.33 66 42 53 -4 407 5 286 47
Windsor 3 0.89 62 20 76 23 521 3 226 13
Barrie 5 2.25 55 -3 37 22 197 -1 67 -1
Greater Sudbury 1 0.61 77 24 51 6 573 26 136 36
Thunder Bay 7 5.80 93 6 127 7 414 -16 155 -1
Winnipeg 24 2.96 98 -1 258 13 665 -3 308 -2
Regina 8 3.15 69 7 83 -34 704 -8 442 -15
Saskatoon 5 1.52 94 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 132 14 822 4 389 -14
Calgary 31 2.07 55 13 77 17 660 10 531 -5
Edmonton 49 3.49 80 10 104 1 639 9 499 3
Kelowna 6 2.99 36 8 31 -24 591 -4 356 13
Abbotsford–Mission 9 4.72 55 31 44 -30 527 -7 469 -4
Vancouver 52 2.02 49 17 66 -16 582 -15 315 1
Victoria 5 1.32 79 28 29 -22 292 -11 126 18
Canada 660 1.80 67 13 62 2 434 -2 232 6
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

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of homicide are not calculated.

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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: Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan areas are available beginning in 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. 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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