Table 13
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2020


Table 13
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2020
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 2019 to 2020 and percent change 2010 to 2020 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan area (CMA)Table 13 Note 1 Table 13 Note 2 Table 13 Note 3		 Total crime (crime rate)Table 13 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change 2019 to 2020 percent change 2010 to 2020 rate percent change 2019 to 2020 rate percent change 2019 to 2020 rate percent change 2019 to 2020 rate percent change 2019 to 2020
St. John's 5,014 -8 -33 1,558 9 2,651 -9 805 -26 40 -36
Halifax 4,730 -4 -36 1,310 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2,690 -2 730 -16 75 -12
MonctonTable 13 Note 5 8,588 -6 Note ...: not applicable 1,780 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 4,940 -7 1,868 -7 303 65
Saint JohnTable 13 Note 5 3,921 -13 Note ...: not applicable 1,224 -7 1,887 -20 810 -1 40 -32
Saguenay 2,777 -12 -38 999 -6 1,312 -11 466 -22 89 -16
Québec 2,832 -4 -26 971 -1 1,476 -5 385 -10 135 -2
Sherbrooke 2,973 -7 -31 823 10 1,412 -9 737 -16 168 -8
Trois-Rivières 2,819 -13 -41 1,057 1 1,423 -17 339 -31 126 4
Montréal 3,048 -7 -40 981 -2 1,726 -10 342 -11 166 -39
GatineauTable 13 Note 6 3,071 -13 -38 1,071 -5 1,546 -15 453 -23 170 -1
OttawaTable 13 Note 7 3,253 -22 -24 699 -15 2,101 -24 453 -24 64 -4
Kingston 5,281 -5 4 1,128 9 3,494 -6 659 -18 74 19
BellevilleTable 13 Note 8 4,880 -9 Note ...: not applicable 1,189 -2 2,426 -11 1,265 -8 170 17
Peterborough 4,517 5 -8 975 9 2,593 16 949 -20 119 31
Toronto 2,927 -16 -19 756 -10 1,908 -17 263 -21 68 15
Hamilton 3,563 -14 -29 860 -4 2,243 -16 460 -20 165 28
St. Catharines–Niagara 3,817 -8 -23 757 11 2,522 -11 538 -17 178 -32
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5,239 -1 4 1,344 2 3,233 -1 662 -8 104 13
Brantford 5,305 -9 -27 1,288 2 3,144 -10 873 -16 251 53
Guelph 4,472 -12 5 816 8 2,939 -10 716 -33 104 -3
London 5,641 -4 -10 925 9 3,987 -6 729 -11 80 -19
Windsor 5,092 -7 1 910 13 3,593 -7 589 -25 250 -15
Barrie 3,514 -15 -33 829 -5 2,017 -8 668 -38 96 -8
Greater Sudbury 5,608 -6 -2 1,428 13 3,448 -7 732 -25 81 1
Thunder Bay 5,974 -16 -32 1,659 1 3,167 -28 1,148 7 156 164
Winnipeg 7,621 -12 1 1,338 -5 5,579 -14 704 -6 84 10
Regina 7,207 -27 -29 1,214 -4 4,201 -34 1,792 -21 112 11
Saskatoon 7,304 -11 -23 1,236 -6 4,150 -17 1,917 1 138 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
LethbridgeTable 13 Note 8 10,697 -10 Note ...: not applicable 1,890 1 6,960 -9 1,847 -24 764 24
Calgary 5,482 -18 9 917 -14 3,734 -17 831 -21 86 -9
Edmonton 7,637 -16 -2 1,212 -2 4,662 -19 1,763 -18 140 -16
Kelowna 9,665 -10 2 1,721 12 5,733 -19 2,211 6 535 28
Abbotsford–Mission 5,843 -16 -21 1,381 1 3,471 -24 991 -2 194 5
Vancouver 6,368 -13 -17 1,169 -4 3,900 -18 1,299 -3 395 9
Victoria 6,222 -5 -20 1,414 5 3,796 -11 1,013 8 130 7
Canada 5,301 -10 -14 1,254 -2 3,071 -13 977 -10 176 -5
... 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 2020 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: 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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