Table 13
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2018


Table 13
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), Robbery, Breaking and entering and Motor vehicle theft, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 13 Note 1Table 13 Note 2Table 13 Note 3 HomicideTable 13 Note 4 Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) Robbery Breaking and entering Motor vehicle theft
number rate rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018 rate percent change in rate 2017 to 2018
St. John's 1 0.48 66 -1 78 23 415 9 119 1
Halifax 7 1.63 163 67 55 1 239 -11 75 -5
Moncton 2 1.24 68 22 50 27 677 -1 258 16
Saint John 1 0.77 86 -9 47 -8 247 -3 75 7
Saguenay 1 0.59 74 25 18 -14 269 -21 116 -24
Québec 3 0.37 57 4 18 -22 249 -13 68 5
Sherbrooke 4 1.97 75 7 30 44 267 -17 54 -19
Trois-Rivières 2 1.27 83 55 26 32 371 4 129 10
Montréal 47 1.11 64 9 59 -16 306 -17 171 -8
GatineauTable 13 Note 5 4 1.20 59 4 31 2 261 -8 83 28
OttawaTable 13 Note 6 17 1.59 78 24 60 3 271 10 92 -1
Kingston 2 1.17 126 26 25 11 431 27 102 23
BellevilleTable 13 Note 7 1 0.90 97 -9 36 31 285 0 102 10
Peterborough 1 0.78 88 -11 19 -54 223 -21 71 -9
Toronto 142 2.26 60 18 85 -7 228 4 159 22
Hamilton 9 1.17 85 15 69 -23 334 2 288 5
St. Catharines–Niagara 2 0.42 76 30 38 10 447 12 178 7
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 7 1.21 85 15 52 -15 474 12 175 4
Brantford 5 3.36 100 -6 56 -13 620 6 546 25
Guelph 1 0.71 95 4 31 1 535 13 143 14
London 6 1.12 82 21 51 -5 456 12 302 5
Windsor 10 2.86 66 8 59 -21 664 29 298 33
Barrie 0 0.00 66 22 44 18 241 23 100 49
Greater Sudbury 1 0.59 130 67 54 7 638 12 166 22
Thunder Bay 8 6.38 108 12 156 23 484 18 202 30
Winnipeg 22 2.69 99 2 290 11 780 16 370 20
Regina 8 3.10 84 8 106 26 876 23 667 51
Saskatoon 8 2.44 102 7 108 -20 867 3 360 -9
LethbridgeTable 13 Note 7 0 0.00 113 113 51 -23 754 7 332 -24
Calgary 20 1.33 71 18 88 13 708 6 540 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Edmonton 37 2.60 86 6 108 3 675 5 463 -8
Kelowna 2 0.95 33 -2 27 -10 692 21 386 11
Abbotsford–Mission 6 3.07 64 21 48 12 598 15 410 -11
Vancouver 44 1.66 52 7 60 -8 526 -8 236 -24
Victoria 2 0.51 71 -7 33 15 294 4 115 -5
Canada 651 1.76 78 15 61 -3 431 -1 232 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of homicide are not calculated.

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs.

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Note: Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan areas are available beginning in 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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