Safe Cities profile series: Key indicators by census metropolitan area
Sherbrooke, Quebec

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Sherbrooke 89%, Quebec 88%, Canada 88%

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

* significantly different from Sherbrooke (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Sherbrooke 800, Quebec 1,078, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Sherbrooke -31%, Quebec -35%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Sherbrooke, Quebec

Sherbrooke, Quebec

Sherbrooke was home to 218,797 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 150 residents per square kilometre. Over one in four (28%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Quebec (27%) and across Canada (28%).

About 1.2% of Sherbrooke residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, lower than Quebec (2.3%) and Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented less than one in ten (7.1%) residents, notably lower than Quebec (13.7%) and Canada (21.9 %). More than one in four (27%) immigrants in Sherbrooke were recent immigrants (since 2011), higher than Quebec (20%) and Canada (16%). There was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Sherbrooke (5.8%) than Quebec (13.0%) and Canada overall (22.3%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, about seven in ten (71%) of Sherbrooke residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, just under one in five (17%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and one in eight (12%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Sherbrooke (5.0%) was slightly lower than in Quebec (5.5%) and Canada’s provinces (5.8%). Households in Sherbrooke earned a median after-tax annual income of $43,660 in 2017, lower than in Quebec ($46,980) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income in Sherbrooke (16%) was similar to Quebec (16%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.2 persons per household in Sherbrooke in 2016, similar to Quebec (2.3) and Canada (2.4). Over half (56%) of households in Sherbrooke owned their homes, lower than the proportion in Quebec (61%) 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 one in five (21%) Sherbrooke households, the same as Quebec (21%) but slightly lower than Canada (24%). A small proportion (5.0%) of occupied private dwellings in Sherbrooke were in need of major repairs, lower than Quebec (6.4%) and Canada (6.5%). About one-sixth (16%) of Sherbrooke families were lone-parent families, on par with Quebec (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2012, there were an estimated 433 individuals staying in emergency shelters in Sherbrooke, Saguenay and Trois-Rivières combined.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, half (50%) of Sherbrooke residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, significantly higher than Quebec residents (36%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Nearly three-fifths (58%) of Sherbrooke residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, a slightly higher proportion than in Quebec (53%) and Canada’s provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Sherbrooke were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (35%^E versus 76%), similar to Quebec and Canada’s provinces.
One in five (19%^E) Sherbrooke residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, which was not significantly different than in Quebec (24%) and Canada’s provinces (22%).
More than one-third (36%) of Sherbrooke residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, slightly higher than in Quebec (28%) and significantly higher than Canada’s provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 8%^E of Sherbrooke residents experienced discrimination, which was not significantly different from in Quebec (10%) but was significantly lower than Canada’s provinces (13%).
About 27% of Sherbrooke residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, not significantly different from Quebec (22%) and Canada’s provinces (21%).
The large majority (79%) of Sherbrooke residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, not significantly different from Quebec (70%) and Canada’s provinces (74%).
The large majority (91%) of Sherbrooke residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was similar to the proportion in Quebec (92%) and Canada’s provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, just under one in five (18%) Sherbrooke residents aged 15 and older experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, which was not significantly different than Quebec (17%) but was significantly lower than Canada’s provinces (23%).
- In Sherbrooke, women were significantly more likely to experience unwanted sexual behaviour in public than men (24% versus 11%).
- Of those who experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public in 2018, close to half (46%) of Sherbrooke residents changed their behaviour while in public as a result, as did over two in five (44%) of those in Quebec and half (50%) of those in Canada’s provinces.

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Sherbrooke police reported an overall crime rate of 3,221 incidents per 100,000 population, 3% lower than in Quebec (3,304) and 41% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime declined by 31% in Sherbrooke, a slightly smaller decline than Quebec (-35%) but larger than the decline seen in Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Sherbrooke declined by 2% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to a decrease in breaking and entering. Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Sherbrooke declined by 33%, compared with a 32% decline in Quebec and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 1,523 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Sherbrooke in 2018, 14% lower than in Quebec (1,774) and 54% lower than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 800 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Sherbrooke, 26% lower than Quebec (1,078) and 30% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- In Sherbrooke, Quebec and Canada, 53% of victims of violent crime were female.
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Sherbrooke declined by 4%, whereas the rate was relatively unchanged in Quebec (a decline of less than 1%) but it declined by 14% in Canada.
- The severity of violent crime in Sherbrooke increased by 13%, which was opposite to the decline in Quebec (-13%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women declined to a smaller extent in Sherbrooke than violent crime against boys and men between 2009 and 2018 (-4% versus -10%).

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 Sherbrooke (4.4 incidents per 100,000 population) than in Quebec (5.4) and Canada (4.9) in 2018.
Between 2014 and 2018, the rate of police-reported hate crime in Sherbrooke increased by 9%, a much smaller increase than in Quebec (+71%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 196 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Sherbrooke in 2018, 39% lower than Quebec (324) and Canada (323).
The large majority (85%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Sherbrooke were female, higher than in Quebec (77%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 4.6% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Sherbrooke between 2009 and 2018, slightly higher than in Quebec (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Sherbrooke had 4 homicides—a rate of 1.97 per 100,000 population—higher than Quebec (0.99) and slightly higher than Canada (1.76).
Of the 4 homicide victims in Sherbrooke, 1 was female (25%). This was a slightly lower proportion than in Quebec (22%) but equal to the proportion in Canada (25%).
The number of homicides in Sherbrooke increased from no victims in 2008 to 4 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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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, Sherbrooke, Quebec and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada
	index
1998	54	90	98	134	121	127
1999	57	96	99	121	108	116
2000	63	94	98	116	105	110
2001	59	89	97	127	99	108
2002	51	89	96	119	95	107
2003	62	89	98	110	94	110
2004	58	88	96	94	91	107
2005	59	89	99	83	90	102
2006	70	91	100	85	91	100
2007	60	84	98	80	85	94
2008	58	82	95	84	83	89
2009	53	80	94	77	82	85
2010	48	76	89	76	76	81
2011	50	78	86	64	71	75
2012	51	75	82	66	69	73
2013	45	68	74	62	60	67
2014	52	64	71	53	55	65
2015	45	66	75	52	53	68
2016	58	68	77	49	52	70
2017	60	73	81	50	52	71
2018	65	72	82	47	51	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. 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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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, Sherbrooke, Quebec and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	814	992	1,206	808	1,093	1,202
2010	662	995	1,209	765	1,032	1,162
2011	722	977	1,124	728	1,003	1,087
2012	719	980	1,079	762	995	1,048
2013	659	937	1,004	657	935	947
2014	709	899	952	678	908	898
2015	608	914	970	598	907	914
2016	741	935	978	624	913	910
2017	755	996	1,019	709	920	926
2018	785	1,011	1,048	725	912	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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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), Sherbrooke, Quebec and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	2,964	3,378	4,122
2010	2,747	3,110	3,838
2011	2,378	2,852	3,536
2012	2,417	2,718	3,438
2013	2,192	2,352	3,154
2014	1,887	2,115	3,100
2015	1,851	2,025	3,231
2016	1,738	1,898	3,239
2017	1,691	1,866	3,266
2018	1,523	1,774	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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Quebec and Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Sherbrooke	Quebec	Canada	Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Quebec	Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Quebec	Percent difference between Sherbrooke and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	3,221	3,304	5,488	-3	-41
Total violent crime	800	1,078	1,143	-26	-30
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	4	4	-34	-42
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	113	103	101	10	12
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	364	578	649	-37	-44
Other violent offences	321	393	389	-18	-18
Total property crime	1,523	1,774	3,339	-14	-54
Breaking and entering	267	311	431	-14	-38
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	695	857	1,720	-19	-60
Fraud	295	273	402	8	-27
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	240	291	699	-17	-66
Other property crime offences	26	42	86	-38	-70
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	898	453	1,006	98	-11
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	647	466	339	39	91
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	171	153	178	12	-4
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	11	13	12	-9	-5
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	1	0.9	0.7	68	120
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0	0.1	0.3	-100	-100
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	463	300	148	55	213
Total drug offences	282	275	225	3	25
Total other federal statute offences	14	124	70	-88	-80
Total all offences	4,165	4,169	6,123	-0.1	-32
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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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), Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Sherbrooke		Quebec		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	785	725	1,011	912	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	2	3	2	5	2	6
Homicide	1	3	0.4	2	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0	0	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	1	0	0.9	4	1	3
Sexual offences	192	25	167	24	170	23
Sexual assault	135	13	116	13	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	2	0	0.7	0.2	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	2	1	2	0.2	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	131	12	114	13	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	58	12	51	11	36	7
Assaults	299	430	497	557	613	644
Physical assault	285	371	481	505	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	6	8	2	3	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	42	110	87	142	111	173
Assault – level 1	237	253	391	359	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	13	53	13	48	10	48
Other assaults	2	6	3	4	4	7
Other violent offences	291	267	345	325	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	0	0	1	4	2	6
Robbery	19	28	25	49	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	11	4	17	3	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	2	0	0.9	0	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	10	6	12	17	6	9
Criminal harassment	95	37	93	32	53	17
Uttering threats	139	161	155	192	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	5	2	8	3	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	0	0	8	0.9	7	1
Commodification of sexual activity^{Table 2 Note 4}	2	0	4	0.1	1	0.1
Other violent offences	9	29	22	25	10	8
Total traffic offences	19	24	57	74	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	1	0.3	0.8	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	12	9	16	19	6	7
Traffic violations – injury unspecified or unknown^{Table 2 Note 5}	8	14	41	54	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 Sherbrooke, Quebec 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), Sherbrooke, Quebec and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Sherbrooke		Quebec		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	6,816	3,364	259,406	3,092	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	3,085	1,523	148,817	1,774	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	541	267	26,110	311	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	13	6	1,550	18	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	110	54	12,455	148	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	49	24	3,553	42	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	1,250	617	55,911	666	531,312	1,434
Fraud	465	230	16,924	202	129,409	349
Identity theft	59	29	1,834	22	3,745	10
Identity fraud	73	36	4,143	49	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	486	240	24,394	291	259,064	699
Arson	39	19	1,943	23	8,000	22
Total other offences	1,820	898	38,016	453	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	38	19	1,879	22	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	25	12	1,073	13	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	0	0	11	0.1	110	0.3
Terrorism	0	0	17	0.2	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	3	1	549	7	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	1,691	835	30,570	364	226,864	612
Other offences	63	31	3,917	47	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	1,311	647	39,074	466	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	346	171	12,805	153	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	23	11	1,050	13	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	3	1	74	0.9	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	0	0	7	0.1	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	939	463	25,138	300	54,951	148
Total drug offences	571	282	23,068	275	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	29	14	10,431	124	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	0	0	3	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.	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	21	10	768	9	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	8	4	9,660	115	21,149	57
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 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 Sherbrooke, 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	1,524	834	0.7	5,398	2,954	-7	8,496	4,650	-3
2009	1,513	818	-2	5,482	2,964	0.3	8,653	4,678	0.6
2010	1,397	746	-9	5,145	2,747	-7	8,023	4,284	-8
2011	1,420	747	0.2	4,519	2,378	-13	7,281	3,832	-11
2012	1,505	786	5	4,629	2,417	2	7,790	4,068	6
2013	1,358	704	-10	4,232	2,192	-9	7,127	3,692	-9
2014	1,444	744	6	3,665	1,887	-14	6,560	3,378	-9
2015	1,260	646	-13	3,609	1,851	-2	6,378	3,270	-3
2016	1,458	738	14	3,432	1,738	-6	6,620	3,352	2
2017	1,557	780	6	3,376	1,691	-3	6,772	3,392	1
2018	1,621	800	3	3,085	1,523	-10	6,526	3,221	-5
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	6	-4	Note ...: not applicable	-43	-48	Note ...: not applicable	-23	-31	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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