Table 8
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by province or territory, 2019


Table 8
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by province or territory, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Total Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using index, percent change 2018 to 2019 and percent change 2009 to 2019 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Total Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
index percent change 2018 to 2019 percent change 2009 to 2019 index percent change 2018 to 2019 index percent change 2018 to 2019
Newfoundland and Labrador 71.6 10 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 79.1 10 68.7 10
Prince Edward Island 64.0 18 -3 64.3 31 63.8 14
Nova Scotia 66.1 1 -21 82.1 4 60.1 -1
New Brunswick 79.5 9 12 84.9 10 77.3 8
Quebec 55.9 -1 -31 75.2 5 48.8 -4
Ontario 60.7 1 -12 74.9 1 55.5 1
Manitoba 139.3 10 1 188.9 11 121.1 10
Saskatchewan 148.2 5 -1 171.0 21 139.6 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Alberta 119.1 5 13 106.7 7 123.3 4
British ColumbiaTable 8 Note 1 104.4 17 -7 91.5 21 108.8 16
Yukon 215.7 26 19 236.6 11 207.7 33
Northwest Territories 388.6 19 19 480.8 13 354.5 23
Nunavut 361.3 11 9 612.8 9 270.0 13
Canada 79.5 5 -9 89.7 7 75.6 4
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

Part of the overall increase in police-reported crime in British Columbia and some of its census metropolitan areas in 2019 may be attributed to the implementation of new reporting standards for classifying incidents. While the effective date was January 2018 and many police services adopted the new standards that year, some police services, including all of the RCMP detachments across Canada and the municipal police services in British Columbia, transitioned to the new standards on January 1, 2019. Additionally, police services in British Columbia undertook a uniform training strategy to further standardize reporting throughout the province. The new reporting standards were expected to result in an increase in crime rates over time.

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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 provincial and territorial Crime Severity Indexes are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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