Table 2
Confirmed and suspected hate crimes, by type of motivation, Canada, 2016 to 2020


Table 2
Confirmed and suspected hate crimes, by type of motivation, Canada, 2016 to 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Confirmed and suspected hate crimes. The information is grouped by Hate Crime Type (appearing as row headers), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Confirmed, Suspected and Confirmed , calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of motivation 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Confirmed Suspected Confirmed Confirmed Suspected Confirmed Confirmed Suspected Confirmed Confirmed Suspected Confirmed Confirmed Suspected Confirmed
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Race or ethnicity 496 170 74 651 227 74 577 216 73 668 216 76 1,202 392 75
Religion 365 95 79 672 170 80 505 152 77 471 142 77 407 108 79
Sexual orientation 128 48 73 133 71 65 127 59 68 184 81 69 203 56 78
Language 5 8 38 21 2 91 10 4 71 18 7 72 29 9 76
Mental/physical disability 7 4 64 5 5 50 8 1 89 2 1 67 4 5 44
Sex or gender 17 7 71 22 10 69 37 17 69 43 13 77 37 9 80
Age 4 1 80 1 3 25 7 2 78 7 1 88 3 1 75
Other similar factorTable 2 Note 1 28 7 80 39 9 81 56 17 77 41 17 71 75 17 82
Motivation unknown 18 1 95 26 6 81 15 7 68 28 11 72 82 30 73
Total 1,068 341 76 1,570 503 76 1,342 475 74 1,462 489 75 2,042 627 77
Note 1

Includes, for example, occupation or political beliefs.

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Note: The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey defines a confirmed hate crime as a criminal violation motivated by hate, based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor. Hate crime counts from the UCR Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate crime incidents. A suspected hate crime is a criminal violation with reasonable suspicion that it is motivated by hate, bias or prejudice, but cannot be proven to be solely motivated by hate. The determination of a violation as a hate crime, and subsequently as a confirmed or suspected hate crime, is made at the discretion of the responding police service. Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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