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Table 8
Characteristics of hate crime victims, by motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2018

Table 8
Characteristics of hate crime victims, by motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of hate crime victims. The information is grouped by Detailed motivation (appearing as row headers), Victims, Sex, Relationship to accused, Injuries, Age, Male, Female, Stranger, Acquaintance or family member, No injury or not applicable, Minor physical injury and Major physical injury, calculated using number, percent and median units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Detailed motivation	Victims	Sex^{Table 8 Note 1}		Relationship to accused^{Table 8 Note 2}		Injuries^{Table 8 Note 3}			Age^{Table 8 Note 4}
	Victims	Male	Female	Stranger	Acquaintance or family member^{Table 8 Note 5}	No injury or not applicable^{Table 8 Note 6}	Minor physical injury	Major physical injury^{Table 8 Note 7}	Age^{Table 8 Note 4}
	number	percent							median
Race/ethnicity	2,702	68	32	65	35	70	27	3	30
Black	962	68	32	57	43	72	25	3	29
East or Southeast Asian	291	69	31	82	18	62	36	2	30
South Asian	337	77	23	77	23	72	26	1	31
Arab or West Asian	480	68	32	63	37	71	28	1	33
Indigenous	147	55	45	63	38	57	36	7	28
White	140	59	41	66	34	65	27	8	31
Other or not specified^{Table 8 Note 8}	345	64	36	64	36	73	23	3	33
Religion	799	58	42	71	29	87	10	3	37
Jewish	284	64	36	62	38	90	10	1	39
Muslim	398	55	45	81	19	86	10	4	35
Catholic	26	73	27	58	42	73	19	8	42
Other or not specified^{Table 8 Note 9}	91	52	48	54	46	87	11	2	40
Sexual Orientation	1,026	81	19	57	43	58	39	4	27
Total^{Table 8 Note 10}	4,925	68	32	63	37	70	27	3	31
Note 1 Excludes victims where sex is unknown. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes victims where relationship to accused is unknown. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Excludes victims where injuries are unknown. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Excludes victims where age is unknown or over 89. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes casual acquaintances, neighbours, business relationships, ex-boy/girlfriends, friends, and other non-family acquaintances as well as members of immediate family or extended family. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Not applicable refers to incidents which did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes incidents that resulted in death. Return to note 7 referrer 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. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes motivations based upon religions not otherwise stated (e.g., Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist) as well as those where no religion was specified. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes motivations based on mental or physical disability, language, sex, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs) as well as hate crimes where the motivation is unknown. Return to note 10 referrer Note: Information in this table reflects data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police covering up to 96.2% of the Canadian population. For the years 2010 to 2013, the municipal police services of Saint John, Québec, Toronto, and Calgary were excluded from the data. For 2010, the Ontario Provincial Police were 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. From 2010 to 2018, information on 4,925 victims was reported in 3,953 violent hate crime incidents. In 17% of hate crime incidents involving victims, more than one victim was identified. Incidents where the motivation was unknown are included in the counts given in this note. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2020-02-26