Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2017

Table 2.8
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner 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 2.8 Note 1 Table 2.8 Note 2 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 400 445 106 124 506 288
Halifax 845 452 223 124 1,068 291
Moncton 389 579 147 222 536 402
Saint JohnTable 2.8 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 303 430 67 94 370 261
Québec 1,526 444 493 147 2,019 297
Sherbrooke 289 335 68 81 357 210
Trois-Rivières 322 470 76 115 398 296
Montréal 8,301 477 2,575 152 10,876 316
GatineauTable 2.8 Note 4 780 558 262 193 1,042 379
OttawaTable 2.8 Note 5 1,351 307 269 64 1,620 188
Kingston 253 346 56 78 309 213
Peterborough 195 353 55 108 250 235
TorontoTable 2.8 Note 6 7,527 308 1,659 71 9,186 193
HamiltonTable 2.8 Note 7 849 352 206 88 1,055 222
St. Catharines–Niagara 462 232 74 39 536 138
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 1,058 457 300 131 1,358 295
Brantford 313 528 78 137 391 336
Guelph 202 348 39 72 241 214
London 897 400 214 101 1,111 254
Windsor 611 469 88 70 699 273
Barrie 304 330 60 67 364 200
Greater Sudbury 297 419 73 107 370 266
Thunder Bay 356 684 93 185 449 439
Winnipeg 1,916 567 341 103 2,257 338
Regina 706 685 169 164 875 425
Saskatoon 642 486 133 100 775 292
Calgary 2,670 441 915 149 3,585 294
Edmonton 2,848 500 599 103 3,447 300
Kelowna 308 354 95 113 403 236
Abbotsford–Mission 411 531 65 84 476 308
Vancouver 3,775 340 915 85 4,690 215
Victoria 649 391 184 116 833 257
CMA totalTable 2.8 Note 8 42,985 394 11,048 104 54,033 251
Non-CMA total 32,414 732 9,257 208 41,671 469
Canada 75,399 491 20,305 135 95,704 315
.. 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 15 to 89 years. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 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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