Table 1
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2011 to 2021


Table 1
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2011 to 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Total Crime
Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using index and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Total Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year
2011 77.6 -6 85.7 -4 74.5 -7
2012 75.5 -3 82.0 -4 73.0 -2
2013 68.9 -9 74.0 -10 66.9 -8
2014 66.9 -3 70.7 -4 65.4 -2
2015 70.4 5 75.3 7 68.4 5
2016 72.0 2 76.9 2 70.1 2
2017 73.6 2 81.3 6 70.7 1
2018 75.6 3 83.6 3 72.6 3
2019 79.8 5 90.3 8 75.8 4
2020Note r: revised 73.9 -7 88.0 -3 68.7 -9
2021 73.7 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 92.5 5 66.7 -3
Percent change 2011 to 2021 -5 Note ...: not applicable 8 Note ...: not applicable -10 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
r revised
Note: Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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