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Table 3
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2019 and 2020

Table 3
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2019 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Most serious violation (appearing as row headers), Race or ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other motivation, Total, 2019 and 2020, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violation	Race or ethnicity		Religion		Sexual orientation		Other motivation^{Table 3 Note 1}		Total
	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020
	number
Non-violent	422	845	447	414	123	108	68	100	1,086	1,526
Mischief in relation to property used primarily for worship or by an identifiable group^{Table 3 Note 2}	14	42	81	99	3	11	5	3	108	159
General mischief^{Table 3 Note 3}	315	583	295	268	105	72	47	72	770	1,021
Advocating genocide^{Table 3 Note 2}	5	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	9	5
Public incitement of hatred^{Table 3 Note 2}	32	62	40	15	2	7	6	12	90	111
Other non-violent violations^{Table 3 Note 4}	56	154	28	31	13	18	9	13	109	230
Violent	462	749	166	101	142	151	82	89	865	1,143
Total assault	254	386	55	33	63	68	24	25	398	526
Common assault (Level 1)^{Table 3 Note 5}	184	257	44	27	46	48	16	19	292	358
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (Level 2) and aggravated assault (Level 3)^{Table 3 Note 5}	70	129	11	6	17	20	8	6	106	168
Uttering threats	128	198	73	38	49	32	33	31	294	325
Criminal harassment	34	64	14	13	11	18	8	14	67	114
Other violent violations^{Table 3 Note 6}	46	101	24	17	19	33	17	19	106	178
Total	884	1,594	613	515	265	259	150	189	1,951	2,669
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero Note 1 Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex or gender, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 These offences are by definition hate crimes. The other listed offences are general Criminal Code offences, such as assault, uttering threats, etc., motivated by hate. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 General mischief includes all mischief-related violations except for mischief in relation to property used primarily for worship or by an identifiable group, which is captured separately. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Other non-violent offences include crimes against property (e.g., breaking and entering) or other non-violent criminal violations (e.g., disturbing the peace). Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes assaults against public peace officers. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Other violent offences include other crimes against persons involving violence or threat of violence such as homicide, attempted murder, robbery, indecent or harassing communications, or other assaults, and some traffic offences. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Hate crime counts from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate crime incidents. Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada. Total includes incidents where hate motivation was unknown. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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Date modified:: 2022-03-17