Table 7
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, North/South region and census metropolitan area, Canada, 2017


Table 7
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and sex, North/South region and census metropolitan area, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Young women and girls (aged 0 to 24), Adult women (aged 25 to 89) and Male and female victims overall (aged 0 to 89), calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 10 Note 1 Young women and girls (aged 0 to 24) Adult women (aged 25 to 89) Male and female victims overall (aged 0 to 89)
number rate number rate number rate
Total North 12,036 3,643 18,886 2,521 54,040 2,460
Total CMAs in the North 943 1,670 1,483 880 4,434 990
Greater Sudbury 316 1,482 397 648 1,277 780
Saguenay 283 1,429 525 844 1,568 949
Thunder Bay 344 2,244 561 1,246 1,589 1,333
Non-CMAs in the NorthTable 10 Note 2 11,093 4,050 17,403 2,997 49,606 2,836
Total South 58,022 1,235 96,642 779 296,417 872
Total CMAs in the South 39,320 1,115 66,781 730 206,831 823
St. John's 305 1,113 653 838 1,878 907
Halifax 925 1,668 1,269 787 4,126 962
Moncton 366 1,796 676 1,148 2,003 1,267
Quebec 1,393 1,388 2,295 760 7,333 920
Sherbrooke 368 1,386 398 535 1,456 728
Trois-Rivières 301 1,598 446 744 1,411 907
Montréal 7,104 1,251 12,041 803 35,982 877
GatineauTable 10 Note 3 716 1,490 1,190 993 3,653 1,096
OttawaTable 10 Note 4 1,343 903 2,145 575 6,620 645
Kingston 347 1,644 373 589 1,221 726
Peterborough 242 1,503 297 621 971 783
TorontoTable 10 Note 5 7,301 912 13,343 643 41,748 739
HamiltonTable 10 Note 6 987 1,259 1,403 684 4,897 871
St. Catharines-Niagara 563 951 758 441 2,488 549
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 1,210 1,460 1,735 887 5,489 987
Brantford 318 1,562 492 976 1,459 1,044
Guelph 234 1,182 268 546 886 658
London 866 1,169 1,143 601 3,813 734
Windsor 460 1,024 828 756 2,251 737
Barrie 286 854 443 571 1,349 612
Winnipeg 2,091 1,785 3,202 1,119 10,289 1,282
Regina 637 1,700 886 1,007 2,721 1,081
Saskatoon 741 1,520 992 884 3,396 1,046
Calgary 2,127 983 4,295 828 12,610 848
Edmonton 2,742 1,351 4,587 941 14,202 1,016
Kelowna 244 996 552 726 1,605 809
Abbotsford-Mission 299 1,039 497 764 1,451 769
Vancouver 3,008 877 6,632 702 20,372 798
Victoria 604 1,381 1,086 745 3,452 928
Non-CMAs in the South 18,702 1,599 29,861 917 89,586 1,010
Total CMAs (North and South) 40,263 1,123 68,264 732 211,265 826
Total non-CMAs (North and South) 29,795 2,064 47,264 1,232 139,192 1,310
Canada 70,058 1,394 115,528 878 350,457 968
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, 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. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 2

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 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 CMA.

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Note 6

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

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Note: Victim age group is based on the age of the victim at the time of the incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. The North includes the three territories as well as the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, based on a geographical definition used by the Conference Board of Canada's Centre for the North. The South includes the southern regions of these provinces in addition to all of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Total figures include 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 figures. Excludes victims where sex or age was unknown or older than 89 years.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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