Table 6
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2018


Table 6
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Locations of hate crimes. The information is grouped by Detailed motivation (appearing as row headers), Total, Open areas, Residences, Commercial businesses, Educational institutions, Religious institutions, Other institutions and Transportation and connected facilities, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Detailed motivation Total Open areasTable 6 Note 1 ResidencesTable 6 Note 2 Commercial businessesTable 6 Note 3 Educational institutionsTable 6 Note 4 Religious institutionsTable 6 Note 5 Other institutionsTable 6 Note 6 Transportation and connected facilitiesTable 6 Note 7
number percent
Violent violations 4,569 34 27 17 8 2 7 5
Race/ethnicity 2,412 36 24 20 7 0 6 5
Black 838 36 27 16 8 0 7 6
East or Southeast Asian 248 41 15 25 8 0 5 6
South Asian 294 42 19 25 4 0 3 6
Arab or West Asian 417 34 25 23 6 1 5 7
Indigenous 137 47 25 12 7 0 6 2
White 129 33 22 16 11 0 12 6
Other or not specifiedTable 6 Note 8 349 26 28 25 8 1 9 4
Religion 822 23 28 15 8 11 10 5
Jewish 303 17 25 19 10 14 12 2
Muslim 399 28 29 13 6 9 9 8
Catholic 25 32 28 16 4 8 12 0
Other or not specifiedTable 6 Note 9 95 20 35 8 9 15 6 6
Sexual Orientation 940 39 28 15 8 0 6 4
Other motivationsTable 6 Note 10 395 30 35 10 9 0 12 3
Non-violent violations 7,221 28 25 13 15 9 7 3
Race/ethnicity 3,131 32 28 15 16 1 5 3
Black 1,273 33 27 11 21 1 4 3
East or Southeast Asian 198 31 32 25 2 1 5 4
South Asian 166 34 33 22 4 0 2 5
Arab or West Asian 248 32 29 20 7 2 5 4
Indigenous 126 37 21 17 10 2 10 2
White 149 32 30 12 16 2 5 3
Other or not specifiedTable 6 Note 8 971 30 26 15 18 1 6 3
Religion 3,050 24 19 11 14 21 8 4
Jewish 1,607 29 25 14 19 5 6 2
Muslim 591 26 16 11 8 16 8 14
Catholic 298 8 8 4 14 53 12 0
Other or not specifiedTable 6 Note 9 554 15 10 5 7 53 10 0
Sexual Orientation 539 27 42 10 14 1 4 2
Other motivationsTable 6 Note 10 501 27 33 15 10 1 12 2
Note 1

Includes parking lots, streets, roads, and highways, construction sites, and other open areas (e.g., lakes, fields, parks).

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Note 2

Includes residential locations such as single family homes, apartments, hotels, and structures built on private property (e.g., garden sheds, detached garages).

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Note 3

Includes commercial locations such as new or used car dealerships, banks, convenience stores, bars and restaurants, and other commercial or corporate places.

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Note 4

Includes schools both during and outside of supervised activities and universities and colleges.

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Note 5

Includes churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, other religious institutions, and surrounding properties (e.g., attached cemeteries).

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Note 6

Includes institutional locations such as hospitals, correctional institutions, nursing homes, retirement homes, homeless shelters, and community group homes.

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Note 7

Includes transit buses, subways, trains, planes, and other public transportation, and any structures or properties which facilitate access to the public transportation.

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Note 8

Includes motivations based upon race or ethnicity not otherwise stated (e.g., Latin American, South American) as well as hate crimes which target more than one race or ethnic group and those where no race or ethnicity was specified.

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Note 9

Includes motivations based upon religions not otherwise stated (e.g., Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist) as well as those where no religion was specified.

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Note 10

Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs).

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Note: Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering up to 96.2% of the population of Canada. For the years 2010 to 2013, the municipal police services of Saint John, Québec, Toronto, and Calgary were excluded from the data. In 2010, Ontario Provincial Police was also excluded. For 2014 and 2015, the municipal police services of Saint John, Québec, and Calgary were excluded. In 2016, the municipal police service of Calgary was excluded. In 2017, the municipal police service of Saint John was excluded. In 2018, the municipal police service of Calgary was excluded. This table includes any counts that occurred within the jurisdiction of police services not reporting to UCR2.2, but that were investigated by other police services that do report, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, or the Sûreté du Québec. Percentages may not add up due to rounding. Incidents where the location was unknown were excluded from the table.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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