Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Brantford, Ontario

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Brantford 80%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

proportion of people who reported being satisfied with their personal safety from crime in 2014

* significantly different from Brantford (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Brantford 1,335, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Brantford -16%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Brantford, Ontario

Brantford, Ontario

Brantford was home to 147,548 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 137 residents per square kilometre. Three in ten (30%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 4.8% of Brantford residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, higher than in Ontario (2.8%) but similar to Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented one in eight (13%) residents, far lower than in Ontario (29%) and Canada (22%). Less than one in ten (6.7%) immigrants in Brantford were recent immigrants (since 2011), lower than in Ontario (12.3%) and Canada (16.1%). The proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Brantford (7.8%) was notably lower than Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, over half (57%) of Brantford residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, three in ten (30%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and about one in eight (13%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Brantford (6.2%) was slightly higher than in Ontario (5.6%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Brantford earned a median after-tax annual income of $50,940 in 2017, somewhat lower than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was the same in Brantford (17%), Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.5 persons per household in Brantford in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (72%) households in Brantford owned their homes, slightly higher than Ontario (70%) and Canada (68%). When a household spends 30% or more of its income on shelter costs, it is considered to live in unaffordable housing: this was the case for nearly one in four (23%) Brantford households, lower than in Ontario (28%) but close to Canada (24%). A small proportion (6.8%) of occupied private dwellings in Brantford were in need of major repairs, similar to Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). Just under one-fifth (18%) of Brantford families were lone-parent families, similar to Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there was an estimated minimum of 186 homeless individuals living in Brantford.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, one in three (32%^E) Brantford residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, not significantly different from Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
More than half (56%) of Brantford residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, which was not significantly different from the proportion of residents in Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Brantford were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (32%^E versus 77%), similar to Ontario and Canada’s provinces.
About one in five (22%^E) Brantford residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, on par with Ontario (21%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
Nearly one in four (23%^E) Brantford residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, which was similar to Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
About 21%^E of Brantford residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, on par with Ontario (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (68%) of Brantford residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, which was not significantly different from Ontario (76%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (88%) of Brantford residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was not significantly different from the proportion in Ontario (91%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Brantford police reported an overall crime rate of 6,533 incidents per 100,000 population, 59% higher than in Ontario (4,113) and 19% higher than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 16% in Brantford, on par with the decline in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Brantford increased by 6% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in theft of motor vehicle, homicide, and breaking and entering. Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Brantford declined by 11%, compared with a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 4,157 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Brantford in 2018, 59% higher than in Ontario (2,621) and 24% higher than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 1,335 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Brantford, 49% higher than Ontario (899) and 17% higher than Canada overall (1,143).
- In Brantford, just over half (55%) of victims of violent crime were female, similar to Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Brantford declined by 18%, somewhat larger than the decline seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Brantford increased by 13%, while there was a decline seen in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Brantford had a much smaller decline between 2009 and 2018 than violent crime against boys and men (-13% versus -28%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was about four times lower in Brantford (1.3 incidents per 100,000 population) than in Ontario (5.3) and Canada (4.9) in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018, the rate of police-reported hate crime in Brantford decreased by 39%, whereas an increase was seen in Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 373 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Brantford in 2018, 54% higher than Ontario (243) and 16% higher than Canada (323).
The large majority (78%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Brantford were female, similar to Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 2.6% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Brantford between 2009 and 2018, lower than in Ontario (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Brantford had 5 homicides—a rate of 3.36 per 100,000 population—almost two times higher than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
Of the 5 homicide victims in Brantford, 1 was female (20%). This was a lower proportion than in Ontario (27%) and Canada (25%).
The number of homicides in Brantford increased from 2 victims in 2008 to 5 victims in 2018.

Charts and tables

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Chart 1 Police-reported violent and non-violent Crime Severity Indexes, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 1998 to 2018

Data table for Chart 1

Data table for Chart 1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 1. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent Crime Severity Index, Non-violent Crime Severity Index, Brantford, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Brantford	Ontario	Canada	Brantford	Ontario	Canada
	index
2006	114	87	100	115	75	100
2007	99	86	98	116	70	94
2008	88	82	95	111	67	89
2009	91	82	94	112	64	85
2010	94	78	89	102	61	81
2011	88	73	86	93	57	75
2012	68	70	82	101	55	73
2013	74	62	74	87	49	67
2014	67	58	71	78	47	65
2015	70	60	75	80	48	68
2016	89	65	77	87	49	70
2017	96	70	81	85	51	71
2018	99	73	82	90	55	72
Note: Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes are available as of 1998. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Following the 2006 Census of Population, Brantford was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2006 are not available for Brantford as a CMA. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Chart 2 Police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 2

Data table for Chart 2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 2. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims, Brantford, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Brantford	Ontario	Canada	Brantford	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,406	937	1,206	1,432	940	1,202
2010	1,486	917	1,209	1,420	913	1,162
2011	1,244	872	1,124	1,236	859	1,087
2012	1,142	824	1,079	1,064	809	1,048
2013	1,011	771	1,004	995	726	947
2014	971	721	952	1,019	675	898
2015	965	729	970	978	687	914
2016	1,129	741	978	994	708	910
2017	1,160	790	1,019	1,021	739	926
2018	1,219	834	1,048	1,038	766	936
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Chart 3 Police-reported property crime, census metropolitan area of Barrie, Ontario and Canada, 2009 to 2018

Data table for Chart 3

Data table for Chart 3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart 3. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Brantford, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Brantford	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	5,278	3,193	4,122
2010	4,736	2,968	3,838
2011	4,544	2,760	3,536
2012	4,846	2,648	3,438
2013	4,330	2,365	3,154
2014	3,748	2,281	3,100
2015	3,880	2,290	3,231
2016	4,063	2,315	3,239
2017	3,980	2,428	3,266
2018	4,157	2,621	3,339
Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. For a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 1
Police-reported crime rate for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Brantford, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Brantford and Ontario and Percent difference between Brantford and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Brantford	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Brantford and Ontario	Percent difference between Brantford and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Brantford and Ontario	Percent difference between Brantford and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	6,533	4,113	5,488	59	19
Total violent crime	1,335	899	1,143	49	17
Violations causing death and attempted murder	5	5	4	13	27
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	136	91	101	50	35
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	771	500	649	54	19
Other violent offences	423	303	389	39	8
Total property crime	4,157	2,621	3,339	59	24
Breaking and entering	620	319	431	94	44
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	2,280	1,506	1,720	51	33
Fraud	476	381	402	25	18
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	619	372	699	67	-11
Other property crime offences	162	43	86	273	88
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	1,041	593	1,006	76	3
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	216	199	339	9	-36
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	105	92	178	14	-41
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	7	6	12	19	-38
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	2	0.6	0.7	261	199
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.4	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	102	99	148	2	-31
Total drug offences	222	146	225	52	-1
Total other federal statute offences	58	29	70	97	-18
Total all offences	7,029	4,487	6,123	57	15
Note 1 Includes sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children, and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes incidents of child pornography. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes assault (level 1, 2 and 3), assault against a peace officer, unlawfully causing bodily harm, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and other assaults. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes total theft of motor vehicle, total theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle) and total theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 2
Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences, by sex of victim, census metropolitan area of Brantford, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported violent crime rate for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Brantford		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	1,219	1,038	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	0	7	3	7	2	6
Homicide	0	3	1	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0	0	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	0	4	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	223	33	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	160	23	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	1	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	0	0	2	0.5	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	160	21	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	63	10	22	5	36	7
Assaults	660	732	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	636	652	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	1	14	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	104	210	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	531	427	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	6	51	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	18	29	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	336	266	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	1	3	2	6	2	6
Robbery	22	64	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	14	1	12	2	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	3	0	2	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.	1	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.
Extortion	1	7	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	110	23	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	131	150	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	10	4	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	15	0	5	0.8	7	1
Commodification of sexual activity^{Table 2 Note 4}	0	0	0.6	0^sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value.	1	0.1
Other violent offences	28	13	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	6	4	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	0	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	6	4	2	3	6	7
Traffic violations – injury unspecified or unknown^{Table 2 Note 5}	0	0	0.1	0	9	12
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded. A “0” represents a true zero value. Note 1 Includes, for example, criminal negligence causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to children and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, luring a child by means of telecommunication, agreement or arrangement (sexual offence against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites a child). Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault, and incidents of child pornography. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes four specific indictable offences to address human trafficking, namely sections 279.01 (trafficking in persons), 279.011 (trafficking of a person under the age of 18), 279.02 (material benefit) and 279.03 (withholding or destroying documents). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 As of December 2014, new offences classified as “commodification of sexual activity” under “violent crime” include: the purchasing of sexual services or communicating for that purpose, receiving a material benefit deriving from the purchase of sexual services, procuring of persons for the purpose of prostitution and advertising sexual services offered for sale. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes failure to stop after an accident and failure to stop or remain (expired 2011-04-28). Return to note 5 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where the sex was reported as unknown. Victims refer to those aged 89 and younger. Victims aged 90 and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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Table 3
Police-reported crime for selected offences, census metropolitan area of Brantford, Ontario and Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Brantford, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Brantford		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	8,461	5,694	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	6,177	4,157	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	921	620	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	113	76	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	811	546	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	69	46	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	2,508	1,688	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	643	433	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	22	15	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	42	28	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	920	619	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	128	86	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,547	1,041	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	64	43	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	15	10	1,669	12	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	29	0.2	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	58	0.4	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	61	41	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	1,267	853	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	140	94	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	321	216	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	156	105	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	11	7	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	3	2	80	0.6	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	55	0.4	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	151	102	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	330	222	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	86	58	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	0	0	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	54	36	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	32	22	3,027	21	21,149	57
Note 1 Includes trafficking and the intent to traffic stolen goods. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes altering, removing or destroying a vehicle identification number. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes offences under section 163.1 of the Criminal Code which makes it illegal to access, possess, make, print or distribute child pornography. When the victim is not identified, this offence is reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey with the most serious offence being “child pornography” which falls under the larger crime category of “other Criminal Code offences.” In cases where a victim is identified, police will report the most serious offence as sexual assault, sexual exploitation or other sexual violations against children, which fall under the category of “violent crime” and child pornography may be reported as a secondary violation. Due to the complexity of these cyber incidents, the data likely reflect the number of active or closed investigations for the year rather than the total number of incidents reported to police. Data are based on police-reported incidents that are recorded in police services’ records management systems. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes prostitution offences that are considered non-violent offences. These include: communicating to provide sexual services for consideration and stopping or impeding traffic for the purpose of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration. Excludes commodification of sexual activity offences. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle, alcohol-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of alcohol and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes drug-impaired operation of a vehicle, drug-impaired operation of a vehicle causing death or bodily harm, failure or refusal to comply with testing for the presence of drugs and failure or refusal to provide a breath or blood sample. In some jurisdictions, impaired driving incidents that meet the elements of the Criminal Code may be handled using a provincial statute. Collection of these incidents is not within the scope of the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Reflects new impaired driving offences as per Bill C-46, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, which came into effect part way through 2018. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes human trafficking offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

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Table 4
Police-reported crime rate, census metropolitan area of Brantford, 2008 to 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Violent crime, Property crime and Total crime, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent crime			Property crime			Total crime
Year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year	number	rate	percent change in rate from previous year
2008	2,246	1,632	-0.9	7,307	5,309	-5	10,683	7,762	-5
2009	2,349	1,696	4	7,311	5,278	-0.6	10,910	7,876	1
2010	2,290	1,643	-3	6,601	4,736	-10	10,133	7,270	-8
2011	2,026	1,443	-12	6,379	4,544	-4	9,580	6,824	-6
2012	1,869	1,326	-8	6,829	4,846	7	9,779	6,940	2
2013	1,730	1,220	-8	6,139	4,330	-11	8,872	6,257	-10
2014	1,806	1,267	4	5,343	3,748	-13	8,061	5,655	-10
2015	1,823	1,271	0.3	5,566	3,880	4	8,338	5,813	3
2016	1,920	1,326	4	5,882	4,063	5	9,100	6,286	8
2017	1,907	1,301	-2	5,833	3,980	-2	9,148	6,242	-0.7
2018	1,984	1,335	3	6,177	4,157	4	9,708	6,533	5
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-12	-18	Note ...: not applicable	-15	-22	Note ...: not applicable	-9	-16	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable Note: Crime rates are based on Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple offences. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. For a list of offences included in violent crime see Table 2 and for a list of offences included in property crime see Table 3. Total crime includes violent, property and other types of crimes. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Aggregate Database.

Table 4 end

^E use with caution

Note:This fact sheet contains data that come from multiple sources across multiple reference years. Some figures may be presented differently than in other Statistics Canada publications due to rounding. For detailed information on data definitions and sources, please refer to the Safe Cities profile series: Definitions and data sources document.

Date modified:: 2020-05-15

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Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Brantford, Ontario

Satisfaction with safety

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Population and demographics

Education, employment and income

Housing and families

Community safety and sense of belonging

Police-reported crime

Property crime

Violent crime

Hate crime

Intimate partner violence

Homicide

Charts and tables

Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area Brantford, Ontario

Satisfaction with safety

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Ten-year change in police-reported crime rate (2008 to 2018)

Population and demographics

Education, employment and income

Housing and families

Community safety and sense of belonging

Police-reported crime

Property crime

Violent crime

Hate crime

Intimate partner violence

Homicide

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Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Brantford, Ontario