Table 8
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2011 to 2020


Table 8
Locations of hate crimes, by most serious violation type and detailed motivation, Canada, 2011 to 2020
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 8 Note 1 ResidencesTable 8 Note 2 Commercial businessesTable 8 Note 3 Educational institutionsTable 8 Note 4 Religious institutionsTable 8 Note 5 Other institutionsTable 8 Note 6 Transportation and connected facilitiesTable 8 Note 7
number percent
Violent violations 6,212 33 26 18 7 2 8 5
Race or ethnicity 3,450 36 24 21 6 1 7 6
Black 1,211 34 26 17 8 0 8 7
East or Southeast Asian 432 46 15 23 5 0 3 8
South Asian 415 41 18 27 3 0 4 7
Arab or West Asian 559 33 27 23 5 1 5 6
Indigenous 174 44 26 13 6 1 7 3
White 192 35 19 18 7 0 13 8
Other or not specifiedTable 8 Note 8 467 25 28 25 7 1 9 4
Religion 1,048 25 28 15 7 12 9 5
Jewish 363 19 26 18 9 15 11 2
Muslim 527 28 29 13 5 9 9 8
Catholic 38 24 26 18 5 16 8 3
Other or not specifiedTable 8 Note 9 120 28 30 8 8 14 7 5
Sexual orientation 1,124 37 27 15 10 0 6 4
Other motivationsTable 8 Note 10 470 28 30 14 9 1 14 4
Non-violent violations 9,127 30 24 13 14 9 6 4
Race or ethnicity 4,056 35 25 15 15 1 6 3
Black 1,715 36 25 11 18 1 5 3
East or Southeast Asian 323 37 28 22 3 2 5 3
South Asian 200 34 28 28 4 0 3 4
Arab or West Asian 289 35 27 18 6 3 6 5
Indigenous 179 38 23 13 11 2 12 2
White 197 37 26 10 15 2 6 4
Other or not specifiedTable 8 Note 8 1,153 32 24 16 17 1 6 3
Religion 3,674 26 19 10 14 21 7 4
Jewish 2,046 31 23 13 18 5 6 3
Muslim 690 27 17 11 7 16 9 12
Catholic 342 8 8 3 12 64 5 0
Other or not specifiedTable 8 Note 9 596 16 10 4 8 54 7 1
Sexual orientation 716 29 36 12 14 2 5 2
Other motivationsTable 8 Note 10 498 29 30 18 9 1 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: 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 up to 99.7% of the population of Canada. For the years 2011 to 2013, the municipal police services of Saint John, Québec, Toronto, and Calgary were excluded from the data. 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. Total includes incidents where hate motivation was unknown. 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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