Table 9
Police-reported crime rate, by province or territory, 2019


Table 9
Police-reported crime rate, by province or territory, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime , Property crime and Other Criminal Code offences, calculated using number, rate, percent change 2018 to 2019 and percent change 2009 to 2019 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Total crime (crime rate) Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences
number rate percent change 2018 to 2019 percent change 2009 to 2019 number rate percent change 2018 to 2019 number rate percent change 2018 to 2019 number rate percent change 2018 to 2019
Newfoundland and Labrador 31,062 5,956 8 -7 8,088 1,551 15 16,497 3,163 7 6,477 1,242 2
Prince Edward Island 8,442 5,379 14 -15 1,999 1,274 26 4,992 3,181 7 1,451 925 29
Nova Scotia 51,047 5,255 3 -24 13,738 1,414 11 27,668 2,848 -1 9,641 992 5
New Brunswick 46,899 6,037 11 7 12,298 1,583 18 25,615 3,297 7 8,986 1,157 16
Quebec 279,930 3,299 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -34 95,824 1,129 5 145,959 1,720 -3 38,147 450 -1
Ontario 614,480 4,218 2 -11 137,191 942 4 387,568 2,661 1 89,721 616 3
Manitoba 140,393 10,252 9 -4 30,048 2,194 10 84,881 6,198 11 25,464 1,859 2
Saskatchewan 138,043 11,754 2 -8 26,415 2,249 13 76,063 6,476 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 35,565 3,028 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Alberta 405,238 9,270 7 8 63,313 1,448 8 256,216 5,861 7 85,709 1,961 4
British ColumbiaTable 9 Note 1 441,856 8,713 17 -4 79,826 1,574 33 270,330 5,331 12 91,700 1,808 23
Yukon 9,720 23,792 21 3 2,088 5,111 31 4,560 11,162 18 3,072 7,519 21
Northwest Territories 22,967 51,236 22 21 4,961 11,067 28 11,292 25,191 22 6,714 14,978 17
Nunavut 17,999 46,413 20 25 4,215 10,869 22 7,921 20,425 23 5,863 15,119 16
Canada 2,208,076 5,874 7 -9 480,004 1,277 11 1,319,562 3,510 5 408,510 1,087 7
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 rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 1 for a list of offences included in the violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offences categories. Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for the rates of total, violent, property and other crime categories are available beginning in 1962. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. 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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