Table 8
Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada, by same-/opposite-sex status, census metropolitan area and urban or rural police services, 2009 to 2017


Table 8
Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada, by same-/opposite-sex status, census metropolitan area and urban or rural police services, 2009 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Same-sex, Opposite-sex and Same-sex IPV incidents, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 8 Note 1 Same-sex Opposite-sex Same-sex IPV incidentsTable 8 Note 2
number percent
Abbotsford–Mission 41 3,713 1.1
Barrie 137 1,914 6.7
Brantford 78 2,958 2.6
Calgary 377 17,578 2.1
Edmonton 493 22,115 2.2
Greater Sudbury 53 3,204 1.6
Guelph 60 2,214 2.6
Halifax 285 7,216 3.8
HamiltonTable 8 Note 3 224 7,943 2.7
Kelowna 65 4,344 1.5
Kingston 79 2,336 3.3
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 187 6,980 2.6
London 285 8,768 3.1
Moncton 71 2,357 2.9
Montréal 2,858 70,448 3.9
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario part) 234 7,221 3.1
Ottawa–Gatineau (Quebec part) 290 7,081 3.9
Peterborough 58 1,875 3.0
Québec 339 8,776 3.7
Regina 150 6,518 2.2
Saguenay 91 1,854 4.7
Saint JohnTable 8 Note 4 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saskatoon 198 5,728 3.3
Sherbrooke 94 2,013 4.5
St. John's 304 2,320 11.6
St. Catharines–Niagara 103 5,268 1.9
Thunder Bay 88 4,448 1.9
TorontoTable 8 Note 5 2,744 64,228 4.1
Trois-Rivières 179 2,385 7.0
Vancouver 862 31,318 2.7
Victoria 175 5,688 3.0
Windsor 141 5,568 2.5
Winnipeg 596 17,291 3.3
Total CMATable 8 Note 6 12,203 355,866 3.3
Total non-CMA 10,120 273,295 3.6
Total Canada 22,323 629,161 3.4
Urban/rural areaTable 8 Note 7
Urban 16,502 470,014 3.4
Rural 5,821 159,147 3.5
Total Canada 22,323 629,161 3.4
.. 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. 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 2

IPV refers to intimate partner violence. Percentage of all IPV incidents within the CMA that involved same-sex partners.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

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 5

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

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Note 6

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 Force due to data quality concerns. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total may not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note 7

Urban areas are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or Census Agglomeration (CA). Rural areas are those where the majority of the population lives outside of a CMA or CA. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core as measured by commuting flows derived from previous census place of work data, where 50% or more of the population commutes into the core. The populations for CMAs and CAs have been adjusted to reflect the actual policing boundaries within the CMA or CA and do not reflect the official Statistics Canada population for these CMAs and CAs.

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Note: Intimate partner violence refers to police-reported incidents of violent Criminal Code offences committed among individuals in current or former legally married or common-law partnerships, boyfriend or girlfriend relationships, or other intimate relationships. Same-/opposite-sex status was derived from the relationship variable, and the sex of the victim and of the accused. Only incidents which involved one victim and one accused person are included. Excludes incidents where the sex or the age of the victim or the accused were unknown, or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Incidents involving victims and accused individuals aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Incidents involving children under 15 years are excluded from the analysis. In order to support more detailed analysis on same-sex intimate partner violence, data have been pooled from 2009 to 2017.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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