Table 6
Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes, by census metropolitan area, 2018 to 2020


Table 6
Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes, by census metropolitan area, 2018 to 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number and rate of police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), 2018, 2019 and 2020, calculated using number and rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 6 Note 1 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
number rate per 100,000 population
Abbotsford–Mission 6 14 8 3.0 6.9 3.9
Barrie 4 8 12 1.8 3.1 4.6
BellevilleTable 6 Note 2 0 2 1 0.0 1.8 0.9
Brantford 2 7 7 1.4 4.9 4.8
Calgary 117 80 141 7.8 5.2 9.2
Edmonton 70 73 79 4.9 5.0 5.4
GatineauTable 6 Note 3 18 31 21 5.4 9.1 6.1
Greater Sudbury 3 3 3 1.8 1.8 1.8
Guelph 12 12 22 8.6 8.4 15.1
Halifax 17 8 16 4.0 1.8 3.6
HamiltonTable 6 Note 4 96 90 58 17.0 15.7 10.0
Kelowna 3 3 5 1.4 1.4 2.3
Kingston 5 9 18 2.9 5.2 10.4
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 39 15 54 6.7 2.5 8.9
LethbridgeTable 6 Note 2 3 2 8 2.4 1.6 6.4
London 34 34 45 6.4 6.2 8.1
Moncton 8 8 7 5.0 4.9 4.2
Montréal 258 236 319 6.1 5.5 7.4
OttawaTable 6 Note 5 105 118 184 9.9 10.8 16.6
Peterborough 1 11 25 0.8 8.6 19.4
Québec 46 65 70 5.7 8.0 8.5
Regina 5 2 5 1.9 0.8 1.9
Saguenay 2 0 1 1.2 0.0 0.6
Saint John 1 4 3 0.8 3.1 2.3
Saskatoon 10 10 17 3.1 3.0 5.0
Sherbrooke 8 5 5 4.0 2.4 2.4
St. Catharines–Niagara 8 9 10 1.7 1.9 2.1
St. John's 1 2 0 0.5 1.0 0.0
Thunder Bay 6 4 14 4.8 3.2 11.1
TorontoTable 6 Note 6 408 415 558 7.2 7.2 9.5
Trois-Rivières 0 8 6 0.0 5.0 3.7
Vancouver 196 233 378 7.4 8.6 13.8
Victoria 25 17 34 6.3 4.2 8.3
Windsor 5 14 13 1.6 4.4 4.0
Winnipeg 29 41 28 3.6 5.0 3.4
Total CMATable 6 Note 7 1,584 1,638 2,243 6.0 6.1 8.2
Total non-CMA 233 313 426 2.2 3.0 4.0
Canada 1,817 1,951 2,669 4.9 5.2 7.0
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
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 core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this analysis owing to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries. In 2020, coverage for each CMA was virtually 100%, except in Toronto (91%), and Hamilton (75%).

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Note 2

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 7

Includes Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service. May include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as between 4%-5% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service fell outside the boundaries of a CMA each year.

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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. 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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