Table 3.8
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and urban or rural area, provinces, 2018


Table 3.8
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and urban or rural area, provinces, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Urban or rural area (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Urban or rural areaTable 3.8 Note 1 Female victims Male victims Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
Family violence
Urban 1,765 67 1,144 51 2,909 60
Rural 557 97 508 89 1,065 93
Non-family violence
Urban 2,611 99 3,963 177 6,574 135
Rural 508 88 979 171 1,487 130
Note 1

An urban area is defined as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA). 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. Rural areas are all areas outside of CMAs and CAs.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 65 to 89 years. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. The populations for urban and rural areas have been adjusted to reflect the actual policing boundaries within the urban and rural geographies and do not reflect the official Statistics Canada population for these geographies. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Victims refer to those aged 65 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. Excludes data from the territories.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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