Table 2
Victims of police-reported sexual assault, by quarterly #MeToo period and census metropolitan area, Canada, 2016 and 2017


Table 2
Victims of police-reported sexual assault, by quarterly #MeToo period and census metropolitan area, Canada, 2016 and 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported sexual assault. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Pre-#MeToo
(Jan. 2016 to Sept. 2017), Post-#MeToo
(Oct. 2017 to Dec. 2017) and Percent change in rate (pre- to post-#MeToo), calculated using number, average rate, rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2 Note 1 Pre-#MeToo
(Jan. 2016 to Sept. 2017)		 Post-#MeToo
(Oct. 2017 to Dec. 2017)		 Percent change in rate (pre- to post-#MeToo)
number average rate number rate percent
Total CMAsTable 2 Note 2 24,298 13.7 4,528 17.7 29
St. John's 234 16.2 43 20.8 28
Halifax 640 21.5 105 24.5 14
Moncton 133 12.1 21 13.3 10
Saguenay 149 12.9 36 21.8 69
Québec 651 11.7 166 20.8 78
Sherbrooke 210 15.1 53 26.5 76
Trois-Rivières 149 13.7 25 16.1 17
Montréal 3,427 12.0 821 20.0 67
GatineauTable 2 Note 3 286 12.3 59 17.7 44
OttawaTable 2 Note 4 1,032 14.5 218 21.2 46
Kingston 216 18.5 50 29.7 61
Peterborough 198 23.0 45 36.3 58
TorontoTable 2 Note 5 4,628 11.8 745 13.2 11
HamiltonTable 2 Note 6 793 20.3 130 23.1 14
St. Catharines–Niagara 441 14.0 69 15.2 9
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 565 14.7 124 22.3 52
Brantford 174 17.0 44 29.9 76
Guelph 175 18.8 35 26.0 39
London 468 13.0 110 21.2 63
Windsor 314 13.5 43 12.8 -5
Barrie 218 14.3 21 9.5 -33
Greater Sudbury 189 16.5 37 22.6 37
Thunder Bay 194 23.2 23 19.3 -17
Winnipeg 1,337 24.0 243 30.3 26
Regina 290 16.7 46 18.3 10
Saskatoon 519 23.0 86 26.3 14
Calgary 1,296 12.6 229 15.4 23
Edmonton 1,822 18.8 292 20.9 11
Kelowna 121 8.8 17 8.6 -2
Abbotsford–Mission 158 12.0 26 13.8 14
Vancouver 1,976 11.1 357 14.0 26
Victoria 455 17.6 71 19.1 8
Total non-CMAsTable 2 Note 7 13,626 18.3 2,238 20.9 15
Urban areas 5,585 17.1 949 20.3 19
Rural and small town 8,041 19.2 1,289 21.5 12
Canada 37,924 15.0 6,766 18.6 24
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. Census metropolitan area (CMA) populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 2

Includes incidents in selected CMAs that are not presented in the table due to the incongruity between the police service boundaries and the CMA boundaries. This includes: Saint John, Oshawa, and the areas of CMAs policed by Durham Regional Police Service and Halton Regional Police Service. As such, the individual CMA incident figures will not add up to the Total CMA figure.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

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

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Note 5

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto census metropolitan area.

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Note 6

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton census metropolitan area.

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Note 7

Non-CMAs consist of all other cities or townships outside of the identified list of CMAs in this table that do not qualify as CMAs based on population size and density. This includes over 900 cities or townships spread out across Canadian provinces and territories.

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Note: Sexual assault offences include sexual assault level 1, level 2, and level 3. Counts are based on the number of victims where the most serious violation in the incident was sexual assault. Rates for the pre-#MeToo period represent the average rate across the seven quarters preceding #MeToo on the basis of 100,000 annual population figures, which means that rates will be lower than overall annual rates and thus are not comparable to annual sexual assault rates reported elsewhere. Populations are based upon July 1st annual estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. The pre-#MeToo period is defined as sexual assaults reported to police and classified as founded between January 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017. The post-#MeToo period includes those reported and founded between October 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. Excludes incidents where the age or sex of the victim was unknown or over 89 years of age (<1%). Exercise caution when interpreting rates and percent change in rates when base figures for incidents are low.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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