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

Release date: May 15, 2020

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Satisfaction with safety

Windsor 93%, Ontario 89%, Canada 88%*

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

* significantly different from Windsor (p < 0.05)

Police-reported violent crime rate in 2018

Windsor 783, Ontario 899, Canada 1,143

rate per 100,000 population

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

Windsor +1%, Ontario -16%, Canada, -17%

Population and demographics

Map showing the location of Windsor, Ontario

Windsor, Ontario

Windsor was home to 349,718 people in 2018, and it had a population density of 342 residents per square kilometre. Three in ten (31%) residents were aged 24 and younger, on par with the distribution in Ontario (29%) and across Canada (28%).

About 2.6% of Windsor residents were part of the Indigenous population (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.8%) but lower than Canada (4.9%). Immigrants represented about one in four (23%) residents, lower than Ontario (29%) but similar to Canada (22%). One in seven (14%) immigrants in Windsor were recent immigrants (since 2011), similar to Ontario (12%) and Canada (16%). While there was a notably smaller proportion of people who identified as a visible minority in Windsor (20%) than Ontario (29%), it was similar to the proportion in Canada overall (22%).

Education, employment and income

In 2016, six in ten (61%) Windsor residents aged 25 to 64 had completed some form of postsecondary education, three in ten (29%) had completed high school (or equivalent) as their highest level of education, and one in ten (10%) had completed neither.

In 2018, the unemployment rate in Windsor (6.0%) was slightly higher than in Ontario (5.6%) and similar to Canada's provinces (5.8%). Households in Windsor earned a median after-tax annual income of $51,630 in 2017, slightly lower than in Ontario ($53,850) and Canada ($52,090). The percentage of families considered low-income in Windsor (18%) was on par with Ontario (17%) and Canada (17%).

Housing and families

On average, there were 2.4 persons per household in Windsor in 2016, similar to Ontario (2.6) and Canada (2.4). Most (72%) households in Windsor owned their homes, on par with 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 just over one in five (22%) Windsor households, lower than in Ontario (28%) but close to Canada (24%). A small proportion (6.7%) of occupied private dwellings in Windsor were in need of major repairs, similar to Ontario (6.1%) and Canada (6.5%). One-fifth (19%) of Windsor families were lone-parent families, slightly higher than in Ontario (17%) and Canada (16%). In 2018, there were an estimated 192 individuals in Windsor living in unsheltered areas, in sheltered or transitional housing, or in other accommodations that were not their own.

Community safety and sense of belonging

In 2014, two in five (39%) Windsor residents aged 15 and older were very satisfied with their personal safety from crime, on par with Ontario residents (40%) and Canadians living in the provinces overall (38%).
Nearly three in five (58%) Windsor residents felt very safe when walking alone after dark, which was not significantly different from Ontario (51%) or Canada's provinces (52%).
- Women who lived in Windsor were significantly less likely than men to feel very safe when walking alone after dark (46% versus 67%), similar to Ontario and Canada's provinces.
About one in seven (14%^E) Windsor residents thought social disorder was a big or moderate problem in their neighbourhood, significantly lower than in Ontario (21%) and Canada's provinces (22%).
More than one in four (28%) Windsor residents said they had a very strong sense of belonging to their community, similar to Ontario (25%) and Canada's provinces (25%).
Over a six-year period (2009 to 2014), 12%^E of Windsor residents experienced discrimination, similar to Ontario (15%) and Canada's provinces (13%).
About 26% of Windsor residents said they knew most people in their neighbourhood in 2014, which was not significantly different from Ontario (20%) or Canada's provinces (21%).
The large majority (81%) of Windsor residents thought crime levels in their neighbourhood were lower than the rest of Canada, which was not significantly different from Ontario (76%) but was significantly higher than Canada's provinces (74%).
The vast majority (93%) of Windsor residents reported having confidence in police in 2014, which was similar to the proportion in Ontario (91%) and Canada's provinces (91%).

Self-reported experiences of victimization

In 2018, more than one in five (22%) Windsor residents aged 15 and older experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public, similar to Ontario (25%) and Canada's provinces (23%).

Police-reported crime

In 2018, Windsor police reported an overall crime rate of 5,427 incidents per 100,000 population, 32% higher than in Ontario (4,113) but 1% lower than in Canada (5,488).
Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), police-reported crime increased by 1% in Windsor, while a decline was seen in Ontario (-16%) and Canada (-17%).
The severity of crime in Windsor increased by 21% between 2017 and 2018, mostly due to an increase in breaking and entering, fraud, homicide and theft of $5,000 or under (non-shoplifting). Over the past decade (2008 to 2018), the severity of crime in Windsor increased by 13%, compared with a 15% decline in Ontario and a 17% decline in Canada.

Property crime

Police-reported: There were 3,913 property crimes per 100,000 population reported by police in Windsor in 2018, 49% higher than in Ontario (2,621) and 17% higher than Canada (3,339).

Violent crime

In 2018, there were 783 incidents of violent crime per 100,000 population reported by police in Windsor, 13% lower than Ontario (899) and 31% lower than Canada overall (1,143).
- More than half of victims of violent crime were female in Windsor (56%), Ontario (53%) and Canada (53%).
Between 2008 and 2018:
- The violent crime rate in Windsor declined by 22%, while a smaller decline was seen in Ontario (-14%) and Canada (-14%).
- The severity of violent crime in Windsor declined by 4%, which was smaller than the decline in Ontario (-11%) and Canada (-13%).
Violent crime against girls and women in Windsor between 2009 and 2018 declined to a smaller extent than violent crime against boys and men (-21% versus -29%).

Hate crime

The police-reported hate crime rate—which depends on police services' level of expertise in identifying crimes motivated by hate—was far lower in Windsor (1.7 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 Windsor declined by 57%, while there was an increase in Ontario (+10%) and Canada (+33%).

Intimate partner violence

There were 302 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population aged 15 and older reported by police in Windsor in 2018, 24% higher than Ontario (243) but 6% lower than Canada (323).
The large majority (82%) of victims of police-reported intimate partner violence in Windsor were female, similar to Ontario (81%) and Canada (79%).
Same-sex partners accounted for 2.5% of police-reported intimate partner violence in Windsor between 2009 and 2018, lower than in Ontario (4.2%) and Canada (3.4%).

Homicide

In 2018, Windsor had 10 homicides—a rate of 2.86 per 100,000 population—higher than Ontario (1.86) and Canada (1.76).
Of the 10 homicide victims in Windsor, 1 was female (10%). This was a lower proportion than in Ontario (27%) and Canada (25%).
The number of homicides in Windsor increased from 7 victims in 2008 to 10 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 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 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, Windsor, Ontario and Canada, calculated using index units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Violent Crime Severity Index			Non-violent Crime Severity Index
	Windsor	Ontario	Canada	Windsor	Ontario	Canada
	index
1998	84	85	98	109	107	127
1999	68	83	99	90	96	116
2000	62	85	98	95	91	110
2001	66	85	97	93	87	108
2002	70	82	96	91	85	107
2003	74	81	98	101	84	110
2004	74	79	96	112	78	107
2005	73	83	99	93	74	102
2006	76	87	100	95	75	100
2007	67	86	98	88	70	94
2008	78	82	95	75	67	89
2009	75	82	94	70	64	85
2010	65	78	89	67	61	81
2011	60	73	86	64	57	75
2012	67	70	82	67	55	73
2013	61	62	74	60	49	67
2014	57	58	71	57	47	65
2015	66	60	75	60	48	68
2016	57	65	77	69	49	70
2017	63	70	81	73	51	71
2018	74	73	82	89	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. 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 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 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, Windsor, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Female victims			Male victims
	Windsor	Ontario	Canada	Windsor	Ontario	Canada
	rate per 100,000 population
2009	1,155	937	1,206	995	940	1,202
2010	1,133	917	1,209	943	913	1,162
2011	1,015	872	1,124	877	859	1,087
2012	1,080	824	1,079	933	809	1,048
2013	983	771	1,004	861	726	947
2014	952	721	952	791	675	898
2015	1,000	729	970	831	687	914
2016	818	741	978	667	708	910
2017	834	790	1,019	620	739	926
2018	911	834	1,048	703	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 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 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), Windsor, Ontario and Canada, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year	Windsor	Ontario	Canada
Year	rate per 100,000 population
2009	3,550	3,193	4,122
2010	3,437	2,968	3,838
2011	3,113	2,760	3,536
2012	3,260	2,648	3,438
2013	2,938	2,365	3,154
2014	2,863	2,281	3,100
2015	2,999	2,290	3,231
2016	3,059	2,315	3,239
2017	3,276	2,428	3,266
2018	3,913	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 Windsor, 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), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Percent difference between Windsor and Ontario and Percent difference between Windsor and Canada, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Windsor	Ontario	Canada	Percent difference between Windsor and Ontario	Percent difference between Windsor and Canada
Type of offence	rate			Percent difference between Windsor and Ontario	Percent difference between Windsor and Canada
Total crime (excluding traffic)	5,427	4,113	5,488	32	-1
Total violent crime	783	899	1,143	-13	-31
Violations causing death and attempted murder	6	5	4	26	41
Sexual assault and sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 1}	84	91	101	-8	-17
Assaults^{Table 1 Note 2}	437	500	649	-13	-33
Other violent offences	256	303	389	-16	-34
Total property crime	3,913	2,621	3,339	49	17
Breaking and entering	664	319	431	108	54
Theft^{Table 1 Note 3}	2,253	1,506	1,720	50	31
Fraud	491	381	402	29	22
Mischief^{Table 1 Note 4}	437	372	699	17	-38
Other property crime offences	68	43	86	56	-21
*Total other Criminal Code* offences**	731	593	1,006	23	-27
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	122	199	339	-39	-64
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 5}	73	92	178	-21	-59
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 6}	5	6	12	-13	-55
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 1 Note 7}	2	0.6	0.7	207	154
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 1 Note 7}	0.6	0.4	0.3	49	125
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	41	99	148	-58	-72
Total drug offences	224	146	225	54	-0.4
Total other federal statute offences	21	29	70	-30	-71
Total all offences	5,794	4,487	6,123	29	-5
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 Windsor, 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), Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Windsor		Ontario		Canada
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	rate
Total violent crime	911	703	834	766	1,048	936
Violations causing death and attempted murder	3	11	3	7	2	6
Homicide	0.6	6	1	3	0.9	3
Other violations causing death^{Table 2 Note 1}	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3
Attempted murder	1	4	1	4	1	3
Sexual offences	147	25	152	22	170	23
Sexual assault	121	19	130	17	134	16
Sexual assault – level 3 – aggravated	2	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.1
Sexual assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	3	0.6	2	0.5	2	0.4
Sexual assault – level 1	116	18	128	17	131	16
Sexual violations against children^{Table 2 Note 2}	26	6	22	5	36	7
Assaults	515	449	467	510	613	644
Physical assault	502	414	456	463	599	590
Assault – level 3 – aggravated	1	13	4	10	6	13
Assault – level 2 – weapon or bodily harm	94	147	83	126	111	173
Assault – level 1	408	254	369	327	483	404
Assault against a peace officer	7	21	7	37	10	48
Other assaults	5	14	4	10	4	7
Other violent offences	247	218	213	227	263	262
Firearms – use of, discharge, pointing	2	6	2	6	2	6
Robbery	32	91	27	83	31	75
Forcible confinement or kidnapping	23	3	12	2	15	3
Trafficking in persons^{Table 2 Note 3}	1	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	2	3	4	7	6	9
Criminal harassment	50	11	52	16	53	17
Uttering threats	123	93	85	102	114	134
Indecent or harassing communications	4	2	16	8	22	9
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images	3	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	8	7	6	3	10	8
Total traffic offences	1	1	2	3	16	21
Traffic violations causing death	0	1	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.9
Traffic violations causing bodily harm	1	0	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 Windsor, 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), Windsor, Ontario and Canada, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Windsor		Ontario		Canada
Type of offence	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Total non-violent crime	17,525	5,010	513,941	3,588	1,845,269	4,979
Total property crime	13,686	3,913	375,402	2,621	1,237,324	3,339
Breaking and entering	2,324	664	45,736	319	159,812	431
Possess stolen property^{Table 3 Note 1}	198	57	4,854	34	23,898	64
Theft of motor vehicle	1,042	298	23,952	167	86,132	232
Theft over $5,000 (non-motor vehicle)	110	31	5,887	41	20,113	54
Theft of $5,000 or under (non-motor vehicle)	6,728	1,923	185,837	1,297	531,312	1,434
Fraud	1,661	475	49,193	343	129,409	349
Identity theft	8	2	426	3	3,745	10
Identity fraud	48	14	4,907	34	15,839	43
Mischief^{Table 3 Note 2}	1,527	437	53,236	372	259,064	699
Arson	40	11	1,374	10	8,000	22
Total other offences	2,556	731	84,959	593	372,834	1,006
Weapons violations	110	31	4,415	31	16,610	45
Child pornography^{Table 3 Note 3}	35	10	1,669	12	5,843	16
Prostitution^{Table 3 Note 4}	2	0.6	29	0.2	110	0.3
Terrorism	1	0.3	58	0.4	102	0.3
Disturb the peace	45	13	5,075	35	94,378	255
Administration of justice offences	2,142	612	66,876	467	226,864	612
Other offences	221	63	6,837	48	28,927	78
*Total Criminal Code* traffic offences**	426	122	28,446	199	125,544	339
Total alcohol-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 5}	255	73	13,216	92	65,820	178
Total drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 6}	19	5	894	6	4,429	12
Alcohol and drug-impaired driving^{Table 3 Note 7}	6	2	80	0.6	250	0.7
Impaired driving (not specified)^{Table 3 Note 7}	2	0.6	55	0.4	94	0.3
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	144	41	14,201	99	54,951	148
Total drug offences	785	224	20,937	146	83,483	225
Total other federal statute offences	72	21	4,197	29	26,084	70
Human trafficking^{Table 3 Note 8}	6	2	94	0.7	112	0.3
Youth Criminal Justice Act	13	4	1,076	8	4,823	13
Other federal statute offences	53	15	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 Windsor, 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	3,324	1,004	-4	11,916	3,599	-14	17,755	5,362	-12
2009	3,381	1,028	2	11,677	3,550	-1	17,095	5,198	-3
2010	3,267	995	-3	11,290	3,437	-3	16,591	5,051	-3
2011	3,013	918	-8	10,222	3,113	-9	15,259	4,647	-8
2012	3,225	978	7	10,754	3,260	5	15,811	4,793	3
2013	2,957	887	-9	9,795	2,938	-10	14,524	4,356	-9
2014	2,773	829	-7	9,582	2,863	-3	14,062	4,202	-4
2015	2,932	872	5	10,077	2,999	5	14,789	4,401	5
2016	2,418	711	-18	10,400	3,059	2	14,822	4,359	-1
2017	2,421	706	-0.8	11,240	3,276	7	15,927	4,642	6
2018	2,740	783	11	13,686	3,913	19	18,982	5,427	17
Percent change from 2008 to 2018	-18	-22	Note ...: not applicable	15	9	Note ...: not applicable	7	1	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.

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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
Windsor, Ontario

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

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