Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, census metropolitan areas, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020


Table 3
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, census metropolitan areas, 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 3 Note 1 average rateTable 3 Note 1 number rateTable 3 Note 2 number rateTable 3 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
Total census metropolitan areasTable 3 Note 3 23 27 5,742 28 5,591 27 14 -4
St. John's 9 10 15 7 26 12 11 73
Halifax 34 20 67 15 89 20 -41 30
Moncton 22 30 59 36 55 33 32 -8
OttawaTable 3 Note 4 20 19 172 16 185 17 -7 6
Kingston 8 13 38 22 27 16 59 -29
BellevilleTable 3 Note 5 Note ...: not applicable 15 23 20 13 11 Note ...: not applicable -44
Peterborough 12 12 9 7 26 20 -2 187
TorontoTable 3 Note 6 25 33 1,971 34 1,838 31 35 -8
HamiltonTable 3 Note 7 31 34 184 32 224 39 9 20
St.Catharines–Niagara 17 17 93 19 130 27 5 39
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 17 21 169 28 134 22 23 -22
Brantford 18 31 73 51 82 56 74 11
Guelph 7 9 11 8 18 12 28 61
London 18 15 104 19 84 15 -17 -21
Windsor 19 27 85 27 129 40 38 50
Barrie 12 16 23 13 18 10 37 -24
Greater Sudbury 12 12 12 7 41 24 0 241
Thunder Bay 13 15 15 12 13 10 17 -13
Winnipeg 35 54 530 64 441 53 55 -17
Regina 25 59 206 79 161 61 136 -23
Saskatoon 32 42 160 48 147 43 31 -10
LethbridgeTable 3 Note 5 Note ...: not applicable 24 28 23 29 23 Note ...: not applicable 2
Calgary 27 32 586 38 517 33 21 -13
Edmonton 27 32 375 26 427 29 19 12
Kelowna 20 15 29 13 34 15 -25 15
Abbotsford–Mission 25 19 26 13 36 18 -24 37
Vancouver 27 19 515 19 446 16 -30 -14
Victoria 9 8 30 7 46 11 -19 51
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
... not applicable
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

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one census metropolitan area (CMA). This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMA. This also includes the CMA of Saint John, excluding the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note 4

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

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA. As a result, counts and rates may differ from information from other sources.

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Note 7

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA. As a result, counts and rates may differ from information from other sources.

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Note: Firearm-related crime is the number of victims 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. 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 area, 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 table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries. The CMA of Saint John is excluded from this table due to data quality concerns, but is included in Total CMA. Excludes Quebec due to the large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown. Urban refers to police services are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or census agglomeration.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey trend file.
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