Table 8
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of firearm, provinces and territories, rural and urban regions, 2020


Table 8
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by type of firearm, provinces and territories, rural and urban regions, 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), Handgun, Rifle/shotgun, Other firearm, Firearm-like weapon or unknown weapon and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Geography Handgun Rifle/shotgun Other firearmTable 8 Note 1 Firearm-like weapon or unknown weaponTable 8 Note 2 Total
number percent rateTable 8 Note 3 number percent rateTable 8 Note 3 number percent number percent number percent
Canada 4,542 54 16 1,506 18 5 416 5 1,880 23 8,344 100
Urban 4,200 63 17 763 12 3 298 5 1,356 20 6,617 100
Rural South 173 17 5 457 46 13 82 8 289 29 1,001 100
Rural North 169 23 20 286 39 34 36 5 235 32 726 100
Newfoundland and Labrador 16 28 3 19 33 4 4 7 18 32 57 100
Urban 14 45 5 5 16 2 1 3 11 35 31 100
Rural South 2 10 1 10 50 5 3 15 5 25 20 100
Rural North 0 0 0 4 67 14 0 0 2 33 6 100
Prince Edward Island 9 50 6 1 6 1 0 0 8 44 18 100
Urban 9 75 9 0 0 0 0 0 3 25 12 100
Rural South 0 0 0 1 17 2 0 0 5 83 6 100
Nova Scotia 87 41 9 57 27 6 2 1 64 30 210 100
Urban 78 48 12 33 20 5 2 1 48 30 161 100
Rural South 9 18 3 24 49 7 0 0 16 33 49 100
New BrunswickTable 8 Note 4 56 28 8 81 41 11 9 5 53 27 199 100
Urban 41 39 9 28 27 6 4 4 31 30 104 100
Rural South 15 16 5 53 56 19 5 5 22 23 95 100
Ontario 2,623 74 18 228 6 2 88 2 608 17 3,547 100
Urban 2,568 76 19 165 5 1 77 2 550 16 3,360 100
Rural South 39 29 4 43 32 4 10 8 41 31 133 100
Rural North 16 30 6 20 37 8 1 2 17 31 54 100
Manitoba 255 38 19 162 24 12 49 7 210 31 676 100
Urban 229 48 24 86 18 9 36 8 127 27 478 100
Rural South 10 11 3 39 44 13 7 8 33 37 89 100
Rural North 16 15 18 37 34 42 6 6 50 46 109 100
Saskatchewan 215 25 19 298 35 26 104 12 241 28 858 100
Urban 117 27 16 123 28 16 76 17 120 28 436 100
Rural South 34 14 9 126 53 35 20 8 56 24 236 100
Rural North 64 34 162 49 26 124 8 4 65 35 186 100
Alberta 786 46 18 394 23 9 106 6 423 25 1,709 100
Urban 702 58 19 177 15 5 62 5 269 22 1,210 100
Rural South 42 16 9 109 41 22 25 9 88 33 264 100
Rural North 42 18 17 108 46 43 19 8 66 28 235 100
British Columbia 454 48 9 214 23 4 52 5 227 24 947 100
Urban 429 53 9 141 18 3 39 5 193 24 802 100
Rural South 22 20 5 52 48 12 12 11 23 21 109 100
Rural North 3 8 3 21 58 18 1 3 11 31 36 100
Yukon 7 27 17 10 38 24 0 0 9 35 26 100
Urban 5 38 14 5 38 14 0 0 3 23 13 100
Rural North 2 15 29 5 38 72 0 0 6 46 13 100
Northwest Territories 33 52 73 25 39 55 1 2 5 8 64 100
Urban 8 80 36 0 0 0 1 10 1 10 10 100
Rural North 25 46 110 25 46 110 0 0 4 7 54 100
Nunavut 1 3 3 17 52 43 1 3 14 42 33 100
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Includes fully automatic firearms and sawed-off rifles or shotguns.

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Note 2

Includes all weapons that do not meet the Criminal Code definition of a firearm and that are capable of propelling any object through a barrel by means of gunpowder, CO2 (compressed carbon dioxide), or pumped air, such as flare guns, pellet guns, or starter's pistols. Also includes all firearm-related violent crime where the specific type of firearm was unknown.

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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

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

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Note: Weapon is based on the most serious weapon present in the incident. 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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