Table 10
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2019


Table 10
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, index, percent change 2018 to 2019 and percent change 2009 to 2019 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 10 Note 1 Table 10 Note 2 Table 10 Note 3 Population Total Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2018 to 2019 percent change 2009 to 2019 index percent change 2018 to 2019 index percent change 2018 to 2019
St. John's 208,432 71.3 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -19 82.2 -3 67.2 1
Halifax 440,332 60.7 -10 -38 83.8 -13 52.3 -8
MonctonTable 10 Note 4 164,337 108.9 8 Note ...: not applicable 106.7 18 109.4 5
Saint JohnTable 10 Note 4 130,712 56.1 -2 Note ...: not applicable 73.8 4 49.6 -4
Saguenay 169,157 47.7 -2 -37 64.5 1 41.6 -4
Québec 815,674 43.8 -1 -28 57.3 7 38.8 -5
Sherbrooke 204,618 47.2 -10 -33 56.3 -16 43.9 -7
Trois-Rivières 158,805 51.8 -5 -34 64.2 -8 47.2 -4
Montréal 4,302,818 58.0 -1 -35 76.1 5 51.3 -4
GatineauTable 10 Note 5 339,246 55.8 -1 -24 71.2 -2 50.1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
OttawaTable 10 Note 6 1,091,116 57.0 4 -15 68.8 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 52.6 7
Kingston 173,196 67.8 -3 5 66.9 -8 68.0 -1
BellevilleTable 10 Note 7 113,140 70.3 13 Note ...: not applicable 91.9 28 62.4 7
Peterborough 128,861 54.4 10 -18 65.7 21 50.2 5
Toronto 6,402,381 54.2 1 -16 78.1 -1 45.5 2
Hamilton 765,101 60.2 3 -19 74.0 10 55.0 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
St. Catharines–Niagara 479,183 64.3 -7 -16 56.8 4 66.9 -10
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 595,465 73.3 -1 -2 87.7 9 68.0 -5
Brantford 150,235 83.4 -10 -21 101.0 2 76.8 -15
Guelph 143,169 64.6 -9 8 52.1 -17 69.0 -7
London 547,803 75.1 -2 -15 63.9 1 79.0 -3
Windsor 354,315 80.3 -8 12 67.7 -11 84.7 -7
Barrie 254,020 53.1 9 -17 62.1 17 49.7 5
Greater Sudbury 168,813 82.1 3 1 94.5 6 77.4 1
Thunder Bay 125,994 100.6 2 -11 145.9 -10 84.1 12
Winnipeg 828,041 131.7 10 -4 174.0 7 116.2 12
Regina 262,606 130.0 1 -10 132.6 8 128.7 -1
Saskatoon 335,901 117.3 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -12 134.7 24 110.8 -8
LethbridgeTable 10 Note 7 124,669 141.8 2 Note ...: not applicable 102.7 2 155.5 2
Calgary 1,526,808 92.9 4 15 84.5 5 95.7 4
Edmonton 1,451,358 114.9 -1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 109.1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 116.7 -2
KelownaTable 10 Note 8 216,133 121.4 20 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 82.2 65 135.2 13
Abbotsford–MissionTable 10 Note 8 201,784 86.4 -3 -23 77.5 -3 89.4 -3
VancouverTable 10 Note 8 2,692,150 95.4 11 -15 80.3 16 100.6 10
VictoriaTable 10 Note 8 402,108 74.3 16 -20 65.2 6 77.5 20
Canada 37,589,262 79.5 5 -9 89.7 7 75.6 4
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service.

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Note 2

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data from 2014 to 2019 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 5

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 6

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 7

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs.

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Note 8

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: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. 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 by census metropolitan area 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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