Table 2.9
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2018


Table 2.9
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by victim sex and census metropolitan area, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Intimate partner violence, Non-intimate partner violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2.9 Note 3 Table 2.9 Note 4 Intimate partner violenceTable 2.9 Note 1 Non-intimate partner violenceTable 2.9 Note 2
Female victims Male victims Total victims Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
St. John's 381 425 103 120 484 276 506 565 719 837 1,225 698
Halifax 896 480 230 129 1,126 309 1,142 611 1,486 835 2,628 720
Moncton 455 667 123 184 578 428 700 1,026 889 1,331 1,589 1,177
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Saguenay 320 455 56 77 376 263 384 546 633 874 1,017 712
Québec 1,576 460 463 137 2,039 300 1,908 556 2,797 829 4,705 691
Sherbrooke 284 330 49 59 333 196 395 459 582 695 977 575
Trois-Rivières 325 478 83 126 408 304 380 559 572 866 952 710
Montréal 8,775 495 2,639 152 11,414 326 8,997 508 12,631 730 21,628 617
GatineauTable 2.9 Note 6 731 530 202 150 933 343 888 644 1,356 1,009 2,244 824
OttawaTable 2.9 Note 7 1,496 331 295 68 1,791 202 2,135 472 2,858 657 4,993 563
Kingston 297 404 51 71 348 240 370 503 338 473 708 488
BellevilleTable 2.9 Note 8 243 517 62 135 305 328 387 823 362 787 749 805
Peterborough 218 390 49 92 267 245 286 512 296 559 582 535
TorontoTable 2.9 Note 9 8,175 335 1,701 73 9,876 207 11,997 492 18,322 786 30,319 636
HamiltonTable 2.9 Note 10 1,036 433 173 74 1,209 256 1,345 562 1,816 778 3,161 669
St. Catharines–Niagara 506 249 81 41 587 147 897 442 1,146 586 2,043 513
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 1,258 529 383 161 1,641 345 1,774 746 2,323 975 4,097 861
Brantford 337 571 97 169 434 373 411 696 503 878 914 786
Guelph 213 360 38 67 251 216 266 449 337 592 603 519
London 1,050 464 204 94 1,254 283 993 439 1,526 702 2,519 568
Windsor 649 495 147 111 796 302 664 506 876 662 1,540 584
Barrie 300 319 60 65 360 193 378 401 558 605 936 502
Greater Sudbury 369 517 65 93 434 307 448 628 564 806 1,012 716
Thunder Bay 331 620 65 123 396 373 440 824 562 1,063 1,002 943
Winnipeg 1,983 585 305 91 2,288 340 2,954 871 4,565 1,369 7,519 1,118
Regina 811 786 181 173 992 477 666 645 1,004 958 1,670 803
Saskatoon 650 497 102 77 752 287 897 686 1,342 1,020 2,239 853
LethbridgeTable 2.9 Note 8 436 875 144 293 580 586 524 1,052 739 1,505 1,263 1,277
Calgary 2,873 473 1,043 172 3,916 322 3,612 594 5,356 882 8,968 738
Edmonton 2,757 478 574 99 3,331 288 3,640 632 5,442 936 9,082 785
Kelowna 337 369 118 133 455 253 456 499 787 887 1,243 690
Abbotsford–Mission 394 498 86 107 480 301 372 471 635 790 1,007 631
Vancouver 3,562 309 846 76 4,408 195 5,935 515 9,518 859 15,453 684
Victoria 647 372 189 114 836 246 946 543 1,619 973 2,565 753
CMA totalTable 2.9 Note 11 46,041 414 11,350 105 57,391 262 59,637 537 86,924 804 146,561 668
Non-CMA 32,811 759 9,250 212 42,061 484 36,106 835 46,499 1,064 82,605 950
Canada 78,852 511 20,600 136 99,452 325 95,743 620 133,423 879 229,166 748
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Note 1

Includes current and former married, separated or divorced spouses and common-law partners, boyfriends and girlfriends and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years.

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Note 2

Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Excludes unknown relationships.

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Note 3

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.

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Note 4

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 5

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 6

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of 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

Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville and Lethbridge were reclassified as CMAs.

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Note 9

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

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Note 10

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

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Note 11

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

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 15 to 89 years. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89 years. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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