Table 14
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, and province or territory, Canada, 2009 and 2017

Table 14
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, and province or territory, Canada, 2009 and 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Victim age group and sex, 24 and younger, 25 and older, Female and Male, calculated using rate and percent change in rate from 2009 to 2017 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Victim age group and sex
24 and younger 25 and olderTable 14 Note 1
Female Male Female Male
rate percent change in rate from 2009 to 2017 rate percent change in rate from 2009 to 2017 rate percent change in rate from 2009 to 2017 rate percent change in rate from 2009 to 2017
Newfoundland and Labrador 1,680 -21 1,162 -32 915 -5 908 -8
Prince Edward Island 1,155 -35 993 -29 710 -13 675 -22
Nova Scotia 1,778 -20 1,178 -43 849 -27 828 -27
New BrunswickTable 14 Note 2 1,730 -13 1,224 -32 958 -6 951 -8
Quebec 1,433 1 1,054 -24 824 -0.2 827 -10
Ontario 1,073 -18 872 -31 663 -14 657 -12
Manitoba 2,575 -13 1,635 -31 1,763 8 1,605 0.1
Saskatchewan 2,781 -25 1,752 -36 1,764 -16 1,504 -13
Alberta 1,390 -19 1,049 -32 1,098 -8 1,034 -9
British Columbia 1,117 -42 864 -53 805 -39 912 -38
Yukon 4,356 -10 1,884 -35 3,493 -6 2,945 -16
Northwest Territories 8,909 -14 4,077 -22 9,398 3 6,672 -0.4
Nunavut 7,491 -30 3,438 -22 10,942 -9 6,777 -10
Canada 1,381 -18 1,023 -34 872 -14 862 -16
Note 1

Includes victims aged 25 to 89. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.

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Note 2

Excludes Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Excludes victims where the age or the sex was unknown. Where applicable, excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. The Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database—as of 2009—represents 99% of the population in Canada. As a result, numbers may not match those presented elsewhere.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.
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