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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Kingston 93%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%

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

* significantly different from Kingston (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Kingston 975, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Kingston -5%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston was home to 173,450 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 89 residents per square kilometre. Over one in four (28%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 3.6% of Kingston residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, in between Ontario (2.8%) and Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented about one in eight (12%) residents, far lower than Ontario (29%) and Canada (22%). One in ten (9.3%) immigrants in Kingston were recent immigrants (since 2011), slightly lower than in Ontario (12.3%) and lower than Canada (16.1%). The proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Kingston (7.9%) was notably lower than Ontario (29.3%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, two in three (67.0%) Kingston residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, one in four (25.3%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and less than one in ten (7.7%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Kingston (5.5%) was similar to Ontario (5.6%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Kingston earned a median after-tax annual income of $56,070 in 2017, higher than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income was slightly lower in Kingston (14%) than in Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.3 persons per household in Kingston in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Two in three (66%) households in Kingston owned their homes, slightly lower than in Ontario (70%) but closer to 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 one in four (26%) Kingston households, in between Ontario (28%) and Canada (24%). A small proportion (6.1%) of occupied private dwellings in Kingston were in need of major repairs, on par with Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-sixth (17%) of Kingston families were lone-parent families, on par with Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 152 homeless individuals living in Kingston.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, just over half (52%) of Kingston residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, significantly higher than Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Just over three in five (62%) Kingston residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, which was not significantly different from half of those in Ontario (51%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Kingston were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (49%^E versus 74%), similar to Ontario and Canada’s provinces.
About one in seven (14%^E) Kingston residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, which was not significantly different from Ontario (21%) but was significantly lower than Canada’s provinces (22%).
One in five (21%^E) Kingston residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, not significantly different from Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (25%).
About 22%^E of Kingston residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, similar to in Ontario (20%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (85%) of Kingston residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, significantly higher than in Ontario (76%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The vast majority (94%) of Kingston residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, slightly higher than the proportion in Ontario (91%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, three in ten (30%) Kingston residents experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, which was not significantly different than Ontario (25%) and Canada’s provinces (23%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Kingston police reported an overall crime rate of 5,354 incidents per 100,000 population, 30% higher than in Ontario (4,113) but 2% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 5% in Kingston, while a notably larger decline was seen in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Kingston increased by 8% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in breaking and entering, and sexual assault (level 1). Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Kingston was largely unchanged (a decline of less than 1%), while there was a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 3,691 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Kingston in 2018, 41% higher than in Ontario (2,621) and 11% higher than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 975 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Kingston, 9% higher than Ontario (899) but 15% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- In Kingston, nearly two-thirds (63%) of victims of violent crime were female, notably higher than in Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Kingston declined by 18%, a slightly larger decline than seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- Despite a decline in rate, the severity of violent crime in Kingston increased by 9%, contrary to the decline seen in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Kingston between 2009 and 2018 declined to a smaller extent than violent crime against boys and men (-27% versus -47%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was lower in Kingston (2.9 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 Kingston decreased by 40%, while Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%) reported an increase.

Intimate partner violence

There were 240 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Kingston in 2018, on par with Ontario (243) but 26% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (85%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Kingston were female, slightly higher than in Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 3.5% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Kingston between 2009 and 2018, slightly lower than in Ontario (4.2%) but on par with Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Kingston had 2 homicides—a rate of 1.17 per 100,000 population—slightly lower than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
Neither homicide in Kingston involved a female victim. Meanwhile, 27% of homicide victims in Ontario and 25% of homicide victims in Canada were female.
The number of homicides in Kingston increased from 1 victim in 2008 to 2 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 Kingston, 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, Kingston, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Kingston	Ontario	Canada	Kingston	Ontario	Canada
	index
2001	56	85	97	93	87	108
2002	69	82	96	88	85	107
2003	70	81	98	92	84	110
2004	67	79	96	89	78	107
2005	74	83	99	87	74	102
2006	69	87	100	83	75	100
2007	61	86	98	74	70	94
2008	60	82	95	71	67	89
2009	69	82	94	63	64	85
2010	54	78	89	65	61	81
2011	48	73	86	63	57	75
2012	54	70	82	60	55	73
2013	49	62	74	57	49	67
2014	46	58	71	60	47	65
2015	56	60	75	58	48	68
2016	41	65	77	62	49	70
2017	63	70	81	62	51	71
2018	66	73	82	68	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 2001 Census of Population, Kingston was reclassified as a census metropolitan area (CMA). As such, data prior to 2001 are not available for Kingston 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 Kingston, 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, Kingston, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Kingston	Ontario	Canada	Kingston	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,189	937	1,206	973	940	1,202
2010	1,131	917	1,209	762	913	1,162
2011	1,003	872	1,124	774	859	1,087
2012	971	824	1,079	634	809	1,048
2013	836	771	1,004	591	726	947
2014	758	721	952	579	675	898
2015	774	729	970	533	687	914
2016	691	741	978	504	708	910
2017	872	790	1,019	615	739	926
2018	866	834	1,048	514	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 Kingston, 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), Kingston, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Kingston	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	3,462	3,193	4,122
2010	3,576	2,968	3,838
2011	3,494	2,760	3,536
2012	3,524	2,648	3,438
2013	3,286	2,365	3,154
2014	3,543	2,281	3,100
2015	3,499	2,290	3,231
2016	3,433	2,315	3,239
2017	3,432	2,428	3,266
2018	3,691	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 Kingston, 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), Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Kingston and Ontario and Percent difference between Kingston and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kingston	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Kingston and Ontario	Percent difference between Kingston and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Kingston and Ontario	Percent difference between Kingston and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	5,354	4,113	5,488	30	-2
Total violent crime	975	899	1,143	9	-15
Violations causing death and attempted murder	6	5	4	22	38
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	140	91	101	54	38
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	405	500	649	-19	-38
Other violent offences	424	303	389	40	9
Total property crime	3,691	2,621	3,339	41	11
Breaking and entering	431	319	431	35	0.1
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	2,175	1,506	1,720	44	26
Fraud	455	381	402	20	13
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	585	372	699	57	-16
Other property crime offences	44	43	86	0.8	-49
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	688	593	1,006	16	-32
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	100	199	339	-50	-70
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	60	92	178	-35	-66
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	6	6	12	-6	-51
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	1	0.6	0.7	109	73
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.4	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	33	99	148	-67	-78
Total drug offences	75	146	225	-48	-67
Total other federal statute offences	32	29	70	8	-55
Total all offences	5,561	4,487	6,123	24	-9
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 Kingston, 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), Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kingston		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	866	514	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	1	11	3	7	2	6
Homicide	0	2	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	1	8	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	236	33	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	217	32	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	0	0	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	1	0	2	0.5	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	216	32	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	18	1	22	5	36	7
Assaults	441	368	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	435	329	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	3	8	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	54	59	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	378	262	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	6	31	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	0	8	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	188	102	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	1	4	2	6	2	6
Robbery	12	28	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	7	4	12	2	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	0	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	5	5	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	66	11	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	75	44	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	5	6	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	12	1	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	7	0	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	0	1	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	0	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	0	1	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 Kingston, 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), Kingston, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Kingston		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	7,843	4,585	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	6,313	3,691	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	738	431	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	60	35	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	174	102	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	66	39	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	3,480	2,035	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	767	448	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	3	2	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	9	5	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	1,001	585	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	15	9	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,176	688	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	44	26	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	17	10	1,669	12	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	29	0.2	110	0.3
Terrorism	2	1	58	0.4	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	22	13	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	983	575	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	108	63	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	171	100	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	103	60	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	10	6	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	2	1	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	56	33	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	129	75	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	54	32	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	8	5	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	24	14	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	22	13	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 Kingston, 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	1,873	1,186	-4	6,051	3,831	-4	8,907	5,640	-2
2009	1,791	1,123	-5	5,522	3,462	-10	8,216	5,151	-9
2010	1,600	993	-12	5,761	3,576	3	8,215	5,099	-1
2011	1,678	1,033	4	5,676	3,494	-2	8,082	4,975	-2
2012	1,770	1,090	6	5,723	3,524	0.9	8,381	5,161	4
2013	1,651	1,019	-6	5,323	3,286	-7	7,938	4,900	-5
2014	1,519	937	-8	5,747	3,543	8	8,233	5,076	4
2015	1,365	839	-10	5,692	3,499	-1	7,964	4,896	-4
2016	1,295	789	-6	5,634	3,433	-2	7,965	4,853	-0.9
2017	1,673	998	27	5,751	3,432	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.	8,603	5,133	6
2018	1,668	975	-2	6,313	3,691	8	9,157	5,354	4
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-11	-18	Note ...: not applicable	4	-4	Note ...: not applicable	3	-5	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 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.

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^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
Kingston, 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

Self-reported experiences of victimization

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 Kingston, 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

Self-reported experiences of victimization

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
Kingston, Ontario