Table 7
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2019


Table 7
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2010 to 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Locations of hate crimes. The information is grouped by Detailed motivation (appearing as row headers), Total, Open areas, Residences, Commercial businesses, Educational institutions, Religious institutions, Other institutions and Transportation and connected facilities, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Detailed motivation Total Open areasTable 7 Note 1 ResidencesTable 7 Note 2 Commercial businessesTable 7 Note 3 Educational institutionsTable 7 Note 4 Religious institutionsTable 7 Note 5 Other institutionsTable 7 Note 6 Transportation and connected facilitiesTable 7 Note 7
number percent
Violent violations 5,467 33 26 18 8 2 8 5
Race/ethnicity 2,898 35 24 21 7 0 7 6
Black 1,008 34 26 17 9 0 7 6
East or Southeast Asian 302 42 15 24 7 0 5 8
South Asian 357 43 18 25 4 0 4 6
Arab or West Asian 508 32 26 23 6 1 5 6
Indigenous 153 49 24 12 7 0 5 2
White 159 34 19 17 9 0 13 8
Other or not specifiedTable 7 Note 8 411 25 27 26 8 1 8 4
Religion 1,001 24 27 15 7 12 9 5
Jewish 352 18 24 20 10 15 11 2
Muslim 494 28 28 14 5 8 9 8
Catholic 35 23 29 17 6 14 9 3
Other or not specifiedTable 7 Note 9 120 25 33 8 8 16 7 5
Sexual orientation 1,088 38 28 15 9 0 6 4
Other motivationsTable 7 Note 10 403 27 31 13 10 0 14 4
Non-violent violations 8,337 29 25 13 15 9 7 3
Race/ethnicity 3,571 33 27 15 16 1 5 3
Black 1,457 33 26 11 21 1 5 3
East or Southeast Asian 224 32 32 25 2 1 5 4
South Asian 194 34 31 24 4 0 2 5
Arab or West Asian 279 32 29 20 7 2 5 4
Indigenous 145 38 22 15 10 2 11 2
White 177 33 28 11 17 2 6 3
Other or not specifiedTable 7 Note 8 1,095 32 25 15 18 1 6 3
Religion 3,507 25 19 10 14 21 8 4
Jewish 1,882 30 24 13 19 5 6 3
Muslim 673 26 17 11 8 16 9 12
Catholic 349 8 8 4 13 57 10 0
Other or not specifiedTable 7 Note 9 603 16 10 5 7 53 9 0
Sexual orientation 670 28 38 12 14 2 4 3
Other motivationsTable 7 Note 10 427 26 32 18 11 0 11 3
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Includes parking lots, streets, roads, and highways, construction sites, and other open areas (e.g., lakes, fields, parks).

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Note 2

Includes residential locations such as single family homes, apartments, hotels, and structures built on private property (e.g., garden sheds, detached garages).

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Note 3

Includes commercial locations such as new or used car dealerships, banks, convenience stores, bars and restaurants, and other commercial or corporate places.

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Note 4

Includes schools both during and outside of supervised activities and universities and colleges.

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Note 5

Includes churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, other religious institutions, and surrounding properties (e.g., attached cemeteries).

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Note 6

Includes institutional locations such as hospitals, correctional institutions, nursing homes, retirement homes, homeless shelters, and community group homes.

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Note 7

Includes transit buses, subways, trains, planes, and other public transportation, and any structures or properties which facilitate access to the public transportation.

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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.

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Note 9

Includes motivations based upon religions not otherwise stated (e.g., Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist) as well as those where no religion was specified.

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Note 10

Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex or gender, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs).

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Note: Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering up to 99.7% of the population of Canada. For the years 2010 to 2013, the municipal police services of Saint John, Québec, Toronto, and Calgary were excluded from the data. In 2010, Ontario Provincial Police was 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. 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 to 100% due to rounding. Incidents where the location was unknown were excluded from the table.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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