Table 12
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2018


Table 12
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change 2017 to 2018 and percent change 2008 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 12 Note 1Table 12 Note 2Table 12 Note 3 Total crime (crime rate)Table 12 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change 2017 to 2018 percent change 2008 to 2018 rate percent change 2017 to 2018 rate percent change 2017 to 2018 rate percent change 2017 to 2018 rate percent change 2017 to 2018
St. John's 5,508 6 -18 1,434 1 2,949 7 1,125 11 96 -20
Halifax 5,264 3 -28 1,373 7 2,960 1 930 2 210 -21
MonctonTable 12 Note 5 8,220 13 Note ...: not applicable 1,596 16 5,021 15 1,604 5 197 -8
Saint JohnTable 12 Note 5 4,215 -6 Note ...: not applicable 1,264 -10 2,419 1 532 -24 98 -22
Saguenay 2,997 -8 -27 987 3 1,462 -19 548 11 201 -29
Québec 3,075 -3 -28 993 2 1,639 -3 442 -14 215 -12
Sherbrooke 3,221 -5 -31 800 3 1,523 -10 898 -2 282 -13
Trois-Rivières 3,191 -4 -33 998 9 1,723 -3 469 -25 194 -23
Montréal 3,275 -4 -41 933 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1,954 -5 388 -5 292 2
GatineauTable 12 Note 6 3,580 -3 -34 1,162 -1 1,797 -4 621 -4 312 -14
OttawaTable 12 Note 7 3,898 10 -18 764 6 2,566 11 568 7 83 -25
Kingston 5,354 4 -5 975 -2 3,691 8 688 -2 75 -19
BellevilleTable 12 Note 8 4,980 -11 Note ...: not applicable 1,137 -19 2,596 -10 1,247 -3 222 -9
Peterborough 4,246 2 -21 839 -2 2,186 -5 1,220 21 109 -22
Toronto 3,428 8 -15 818 4 2,282 10 327 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 107 -21
Hamilton 3,953 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -26 807 -3 2,639 3 507 -6 224 -2
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,996 7 -29 673 15 2,755 5 569 10 332 19
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5,493 6 6 1,181 15 3,398 6 913 -4 160 -30
Brantford 6,533 5 -16 1,335 3 4,157 4 1,041 8 222 -7
Guelph 5,079 1 5 844 1 3,200 -3 1,034 17 178 -29
London 5,963 6 -14 874 6 4,198 9 890 -8 167 -14
Windsor 5,427 17 1 783 11 3,913 19 731 11 224 11
Barrie 3,970 14 -28 764 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2,188 15 1,018 23 132 -27
Greater Sudbury 5,677 5 6 1,205 18 3,251 -4 1,221 25 102 -14
Thunder Bay 5,778 -6 -33 1,545 -1 3,321 4 912 -35 117 24
Winnipeg 7,863 11 -5 1,358 1 5,751 17 755 -3 100 -19
Regina 9,521 8 -14 1,228 3 5,984 12 2,309 1 138 -29
Saskatoon 8,795 -1 -19 1,158 -5 5,353 3 2,284 -8 200 -20
LethbridgeTable 12 Note 8 11,183 7 Note ...: not applicable 1,842 34 7,422 4 1,918 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 663 150
Calgary 6,176 9 8 999 9 4,342 2 835 60 108 -1
Edmonton 8,779 1 -3 1,189 -1 5,238 1 2,351 3 253 -12
Kelowna 8,708 10 -20 955 13 6,022 10 1,731 9 627 -10
Abbotsford–Mission 7,116 6 -27 1,199 13 4,939 4 978 14 165 -17
Vancouver 6,750 -1 -22 972 4 4,612 -4 1,167 3 329 -6
Victoria 5,819 9 -31 1,220 6 3,825 11 773 2 165 -25
Canada 5,488 2 -17 1,143 3 3,339 2 1,006 1 225 -11
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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.

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Note 2

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3

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 4

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 1 for a list of offences included in the violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offences categories.

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Note 5

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data for 2014 to 2018 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note 8

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs. As such, data prior to 2016 not available.

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Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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