Table 1.8
Child and youth victims of police-reported family violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2017

Table 1.8
Child and youth victims of police-reported family violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth 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 1.8 Note 1 Table 1.8 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 36 195 37 193 73 194
Halifax 132 370 105 276 237 322
Moncton 39 272 28 183 67 226
Saint JohnTable 1.8 Note 3 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saguenay 66 481 59 412 125 445
Québec 208 304 144 203 352 253
Sherbrooke 71 407 35 188 106 294
Trois-Rivières 58 476 50 382 108 427
Montréal 1,267 329 884 219 2,151 273
GatineauTable 1.8 Note 4 139 417 81 230 220 321
OttawaTable 1.8 Note 5 126 129 86 86 212 107
Kingston 39 288 26 177 65 230
Peterborough 27 258 24 220 51 239
TorontoTable 1.8 Note 6 911 175 745 136 1,656 155
HamiltonTable 1.8 Note 7 141 273 108 196 249 234
St. Catharines–Niagara 63 162 43 104 106 132
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 165 293 109 184 274 237
Brantford 37 265 24 164 61 213
Guelph 28 217 11 81 39 147
London 101 207 55 107 156 156
Windsor 54 183 27 86 81 133
Barrie 32 141 27 113 59 127
Greater Sudbury 38 267 16 104 54 182
Thunder Bay 32 318 13 124 45 219
Winnipeg 191 242 93 112 284 175
Regina 80 304 62 223 142 262
Saskatoon 100 295 54 151 154 221
Calgary 346 226 271 168 617 196
Edmonton 406 287 242 163 648 223
Kelowna 31 190 11 64 42 126
Abbotsford–Mission 51 256 31 145 82 198
Vancouver 337 155 255 110 592 132
Victoria 76 267 52 179 128 222
CMA totalTable 1.8 Note 8 5,600 234 3,920 156 9,520 194
Non-CMA total 4,913 482 3,080 287 7,993 382
Canada 10,513 308 7,000 195 17,513 250
.. not available for a specific reference period
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, 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

Data for the CMA of Saint John are excluded due to data quality concerns associated with the Saint John Police Service.

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Note 4

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

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note 8

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. Also includes the CMA of Saint John, excluding the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns. 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 aged 17 years and younger. 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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