Table 11
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, Canada, by age and gender and region, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020


Table 11
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, Canada, by age and gender and region, 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 Characteristics (appearing as row headers), 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020, calculated using average rate, percent, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics 2009 to 2014 2015 to 2020 2019 2020
average rateTable 11 Note 1 percentTable 11 Note 2 average rateTable 11 Note 1 percentTable 11 Note 2 number rateTable 11 Note 3 percentTable 11 Note 2 number rateTable 11 Note 3 percent
Canada
Male victimsTable 11 Note 4 31 67 37 68 5,642 40 69 5,571 39 67
Under 18 years 27 19 26 14 781 28 14 600 21 11
18 to 24 years 84 28 100 26 1,500 108 27 1,364 98 25
25 years and older 24 53 31 59 3,319 33 59 3,544 35 64
Female victimsTable 11 Note 4 15 33 17 32 2,578 18 31 2,744 19 33
Under 18 years 11 16 11 12 335 12 13 327 12 12
18 to 24 years 39 25 46 23 560 44 22 608 48 22
25 years and older 12 59 15 65 1,677 16 65 1,803 17 66
Total victimsTable 11 Note 5 23 Note ...: not applicable 27 Note ...: not applicable 8,256 29 Note ...: not applicable 8,344 29 Note ...: not applicable
Urban
Male victimsTable 11 Note 4 31 68 37 70 4,706 39 70 4,524 37 69
Under 18 years 27 18 26 14 650 27 14 487 20 11
18 to 24 years 86 29 101 28 1,332 110 29 1,180 98 26
25 years and older 23 53 30 58 2,682 32 58 2,794 32 63
Female victimsTable 11 Note 4 14 32 16 30 1,970 16 30 2,068 17 31
Under 18 years 10 15 10 12 262 11 13 243 11 12
18 to 24 years 38 26 42 24 446 40 23 472 42 23
25 years and older 11 59 14 64 1,257 14 64 1,347 15 65
Total victimsTable 11 Note 5 22 Note ...: not applicable 26 Note ...: not applicable 6,699 27 Note ...: not applicable 6,617 27 Note ...: not applicable
Rural South
Male victimsTable 11 Note 4 21 61 27 60 541 31 62 608 34 61
Under 18 years 23 23 17 12 70 20 13 57 16 9
18 to 24 years 46 18 66 19 90 65 17 109 79 18
25 years and older 17 59 25 69 381 30 70 442 34 73
Female victimsTable 11 Note 4 14 39 18 40 331 19 38 390 22 39
Under 18 years 12 17 11 12 35 11 11 48 15 12
18 to 24 years 33 19 48 19 61 49 18 71 57 18
25 years and older 12 64 17 70 234 18 71 271 21 69
Total victimsTable 11 Note 5 17 Note ...: not applicable 23 Note ...: not applicable 875 25 Note ...: not applicable 1,001 28 Note ...: not applicable
Rural North
Male victimsTable 11 Note 4 64 62 88 60 395 92 59 439 102 61
Under 18 years 54 22 58 17 61 57 15 56 52 13
18 to 24 years 146 22 189 20 78 200 20 75 195 17
25 years and older 56 56 85 64 256 90 65 308 108 70
Female victimsTable 11 Note 4 42 38 62 40 277 67 41 286 69 39
Under 18 years 34 21 39 16 38 37 14 36 35 13
18 to 24 years 100 22 156 21 53 152 19 65 185 23
25 years and older 37 57 58 63 186 67 67 185 67 65
Total victimsTable 11 Note 5 53 Note ...: not applicable 76 Note ...: not applicable 682 81 Note ...: not applicable 726 86 Note ...: not applicable
... 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

For gender, percent is of all victims excluding unknown gender: For age groups, percent is within each gender group, excluding unknown age.

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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 unknown age. The option for police to code victims as gender diverse in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of victims identified as “gender diverse” may exist, the UCR aggregate data available to the public has been recoded to assign these counts to either “male” or “female”, in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims identified as gender diverse have been assigned to either male or female based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender.

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Note 5

Includes victims where gender is unknown.

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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. 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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