Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, provinces and territories, rural and urban regions, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020


Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, provinces and territories, rural and urban regions, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019, 2020, Change in rate between 2009 to 2014 and 2015 to 2020 and Change in rate
2019 to 2020, calculated using average rate, number, rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Geography 2009 to 2014 2015 to 2020 2019 2020 Change in rate between 2009 to 2014 and 2015 to 2020 Change in rate
2019 to 2020
average rateTable 1 Note 1 average rateTable 1 Note 1 number rateTable 1 Note 2 number rateTable 1 Note 2 percent
Canada 23 27 8,256 29 8,344 29 20 0
Urban 22 26 6,699 27 6,617 27 17 -2
Rural South 17 23 875 25 1,001 28 32 14
Rural North 53 76 682 81 726 86 42 6
Newfoundland and Labrador 12 13 71 14 57 11 11 -20
Urban 9 9 28 10 31 11 2 11
Rural South 12 16 29 14 20 10 27 -31
Rural North 36 41 14 50 6 22 16 -57
Prince Edward Island 10 12 14 9 18 11 20 27
Urban 10 11 3 3 12 12 8 294
Rural South 11 15 11 20 6 11 39 -46
Nova Scotia 25 18 171 18 210 22 -27 22
Urban 28 19 112 18 161 25 -30 42
Rural South 19 15 59 18 49 15 -20 -17
New BrunswickTable 1 Note 3 17 23 185 26 199 28 36 7
Urban 15 21 106 25 104 24 44 -3
Rural South 20 26 79 29 95 34 26 20
Ontario 19 23 3,435 24 3,547 24 22 2
Urban 20 24 3,280 25 3,360 25 22 1
Rural South 9 10 114 11 133 12 8 16
Rural North 17 17 41 16 54 21 0 32
Manitoba 35 50 802 60 676 51 44 -16
Urban 33 51 586 62 478 50 58 -19
Rural South 19 24 91 31 89 30 25 -3
Rural North 101 123 125 142 109 123 22 -13
Saskatchewan 35 67 920 80 858 74 93 -7
Urban 29 57 531 71 436 58 99 -19
Rural South 33 54 214 59 236 65 67 11
Rural North 166 383 175 444 186 471 131 6
Alberta 28 36 1,572 36 1,709 39 28 7
Urban 27 33 1,197 33 1,210 33 22 0
Rural South 24 40 197 41 264 54 66 31
Rural North 56 80 178 71 235 94 44 32
British Columbia 23 19 947 19 947 18 -19 -1
Urban 23 19 835 18 802 17 -20 -5
Rural South 16 16 81 19 109 25 -4 34
Rural North 32 31 31 27 36 31 -3 16
Yukon 36 47 24 58 26 62 29 7
Urban 24 28 11 32 13 37 19 16
Rural North 92 138 13 185 13 186 50 1
Northwest Territories 45 84 52 115 64 142 87 23
Urban 12 25 10 45 10 44 113 -1
Rural North 74 139 42 184 54 239 89 29
Nunavut 127 129 63 163 33 84 2 -49
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Average rates are calculated per 100,000 population and are based on the total count of victims over the time period divided by the sum of the populations for each year in the six–year time period.

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Note 2

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 3

Excludes data for the Saint John Municipal Police Service (SJPS) due to data quality concerns.

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Note: Firearm-related crime is defined as victims of violent crime reported by police in incidents where a firearm was present. Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Excludes data for the Saint John Municipal Police Service (SJPS) due to data quality concerns. Rural police services are those where the majority of the population lives outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). Urban police services are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or CA. See "Data sources and concepts" for further information. Rural North includes all rural police services in the Territories or in the Provincial North. Provincial North encompasses the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Rural South refers to rural police services in the southern regions of these provinces as well as Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey trend file.
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