Table 4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon, census metropolitan areas, 2020


Table 4
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of weapon, census metropolitan areas, 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Geography (appearing as row headers), Firearm, Other weapon, No weapon, Unknown and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Geography Firearm Other weaponTable 4 Note 1 No weaponTable 4 Note 2 Unknown Total
number percent rateTable 4 Note 3 number percent number percent number   percent number percent
Canada 8,344 2.8 29 61,497 20.6 229,326 76.7 10,965 Note ...: not applicable 310,132 100.0
Urban 6,617 2.9 27 48,164 21.4 170,530 75.7 6,049 Note ...: not applicable 231,360 100.0
Total census metropolitan areasTable 4 Note 4 5,591 3.2 27 39,061 22.3 130,899 74.6 3,899 Note ...: not applicable 179,450 100.0
St. John's 26 1.3 12 379 19.1 1,579 79.6 101 Note ...: not applicable 2,085 100.0
Halifax 89 2.2 20 658 16.5 3,251 81.3 150 Note ...: not applicable 4,148 100.0
Moncton 55 2.1 33 363 14.0 2,184 83.9 131 Note ...: not applicable 2,733 100.0
OttawaTable 4 Note 5 185 2.7 17 1,231 18.0 5,414 79.3 124 Note ...: not applicable 6,954 100.0
Kingston 27 2.1 16 253 19.4 1,022 78.5 45 Note ...: not applicable 1,347 100.0
BellevilleTable 4 Note 6 13 1.1 11 164 13.4 1,046 85.5 28 Note ...: not applicable 1,251 100.0
Peterborough 26 2.3 20 199 18.0 883 79.7 9 Note ...: not applicable 1,117 100.0
TorontoTable 4 Note 7 1,838 4.6 31 8,134 20.5 29,671 74.8 792 Note ...: not applicable 40,435 100.0
HamiltonTable 4 Note 8 224 3.9 39 998 17.5 4,495 78.6 31 Note ...: not applicable 5,748 100.0
St.Catharines–Niagara 130 4.1 27 576 18.3 2,438 77.5 38 Note ...: not applicable 3,182 100.0
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 134 1.7 22 1,361 17.6 6,233 80.7 131 Note ...: not applicable 7,859 100.0
Brantford 82 4.8 56 281 16.3 1,358 78.9 7 Note ...: not applicable 1,728 100.0
Guelph 18 2.1 12 175 20.4 666 77.5 21 Note ...: not applicable 880 100.0
London 84 2.0 15 1,019 24.0 3,151 74.1 242 Note ...: not applicable 4,496 100.0
Windsor 129 4.2 40 695 22.6 2,247 73.2 12 Note ...: not applicable 3,083 100.0
Barrie 18 1.5 10 218 18.0 976 80.5 35 Note ...: not applicable 1,247 100.0
Greater Sudbury 41 2.4 24 425 24.5 1,267 73.1 4 Note ...: not applicable 1,737 100.0
Thunder Bay 13 0.8 10 346 20.1 1,365 79.2 11 Note ...: not applicable 1,735 100.0
Winnipeg 441 4.2 53 3,397 32.5 6,629 63.3 237 Note ...: not applicable 10,704 100.0
Regina 161 5.5 61 796 27.0 1,993 67.6 54 Note ...: not applicable 3,004 100.0
Saskatoon 147 4.3 43 1,094 32.2 2,158 63.5 36 Note ...: not applicable 3,435 100.0
LethbridgeTable 4 Note 6 29 1.4 23 385 18.1 1,717 80.6 25 Note ...: not applicable 2,156 100.0
Calgary 517 3.9 33 3,261 24.8 9,345 71.2 282 Note ...: not applicable 13,405 100.0
Edmonton 427 2.9 29 3,867 26.7 10,210 70.4 574 Note ...: not applicable 15,078 100.0
Kelowna 34 1.3 15 540 20.7 2,029 77.9 70 Note ...: not applicable 2,673 100.0
Abbotsford–Mission 36 1.9 18 433 23.2 1,394 74.8 29 Note ...: not applicable 1,892 100.0
Vancouver 446 1.7 16 6,240 24.4 18,852 73.8 502 Note ...: not applicable 26,040 100.0
Victoria 46 1.2 11 673 17.4 3,142 81.4 91 Note ...: not applicable 3,952 100.0
... not applicable
Note 1

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature or fire.

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Note 2

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

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 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

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 8

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: Weapon is based on the most serious weapon present in the incident. 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. Percentage calculations exclude cases where the weapon is unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey trend file.
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