Table 12
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2019


Table 12
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change 2018 to 2019 and percent change 2009 to 2019 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 12 Note 1 Table 12 Note 2 Table 12 Note 3 Total crime (crime rate)Table 12 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change 2018 to 2019 percent change 2009 to 2019 rate percent change 2018 to 2019 rate percent change 2018 to 2019 rate percent change 2018 to 2019 rate percent change 2018 to 2019
St. John's 5,430 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -24 1,422 -1 2,923 -1 1,085 2 58 -40
Halifax 4,925 -6 -32 1,310 -5 2,750 -7 865 -7 85 -59
MonctonTable 12 Note 5 9,068 10 Note ...: not applicable 1,785 11 5,295 6 1,989 21 180 -11
Saint JohnTable 12 Note 5 4,463 -3 Note ...: not applicable 1,298 -2 2,355 -5 811 -1 58 -46
Saguenay 3,144 5 -28 1,061 8 1,483 2 599 9 106 -47
Québec 2,967 -3 -27 983 1 1,558 -5 427 -3 138 -35
Sherbrooke 3,188 -3 -32 754 -9 1,557 1 877 -4 182 -30
Trois-Rivières 3,259 2 -34 1,050 5 1,719 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 489 4 122 -39
Montréal 3,303 1 -40 1,000 7 1,918 -2 385 -1 287 -2
GatineauTable 12 Note 6 3,530 -1 -33 1,131 -2 1,812 1 587 -6 172 -45
OttawaTable 12 Note 7 4,168 7 -8 820 6 2,759 8 589 4 66 -20
Kingston 5,561 3 8 1,037 5 3,718 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 806 17 64 -39
BellevilleTable 12 Note 8 5,308 6 Note ...: not applicable 1,207 5 2,727 5 1,374 10 144 -35
Peterborough 4,298 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -18 891 4 2,221 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1,186 -4 90 -18
Toronto 3,471 1 -9 843 3 2,293 1 334 2 58 -46
Hamilton 4,125 3 -20 892 10 2,664 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 568 5 128 -44
St. Catharines–Niagara 4,149 4 -22 676 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2,821 2 653 14 261 -22
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5,276 -4 -5 1,308 10 3,255 -4 713 -22 92 -43
Brantford 5,805 -11 -26 1,261 -6 3,504 -16 1,040 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 164 -26
Guelph 5,051 -5 2 752 -15 3,235 -4 1,064 1 105 -42
London 5,842 -2 -15 838 -4 4,199 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 805 -10 99 -41
Windsor 5,316 -4 2 778 -3 3,770 -6 768 3 291 27
Barrie 4,123 8 -25 866 15 2,183 7 1,074 7 105 -17
Greater Sudbury 5,930 4 10 1,263 5 3,689 14 978 -20 80 -22
Thunder Bay 7,046 15 -24 1,619 2 4,363 21 1,064 15 58 -51
Winnipeg 8,658 10 -6 1,403 3 6,505 13 751 -1 76 -25
Regina 9,827 2 -8 1,243 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 6,359 5 2,225 -5 97 -31
Saskatoon 8,202 -7 -20 1,304 13 5,000 -6 1,898 -17 138 -31
LethbridgeTable 12 Note 8 11,866 5 Note ...: not applicable 1,858 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 7,586 1 2,422 25 608 -10
Calgary 6,625 6 24 1,059 4 4,514 3 1,053 25 94 -14
Edmonton 9,073 3 4 1,232 3 5,706 8 2,135 -10 163 -34
KelownaTable 12 Note 9 10,747 24 2 1,537 60 7,122 19 2,088 21 415 -35
Abbotsford–MissionTable 12 Note 9 6,953 -1 -10 1,360 15 4,577 -6 1,016 5 185 9
VancouverTable 12 Note 9 7,339 8 -10 1,218 24 4,779 3 1,341 14 353 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
VictoriaTable 12 Note 9 6,601 14 -18 1,350 10 4,299 12 953 26 124 -26
Canada 5,874 7 -9 1,277 11 3,510 5 1,087 7 187 -19
... 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

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.

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Note 5

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 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note 8

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs. As such, data prior to 2016 are not available.

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Note 9

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. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on 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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