Table 7
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2021


Table 7
Police-reported crime for selected offences, by census metropolitan area, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime for selected offences. The information is grouped by Census
metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Homicide, Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3), Robbery, Breaking and entering, Motor vehicle theft, Fraud (total), Shoplifting of $5,000 or under and Uttering threats, calculated using number, rate and percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan area (CMA)Table 7 Note 1 Table 7 Note 2 Table 7 Note 3		 HomicideTable 7 Note 4 Sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) Robbery Breaking and entering Motor vehicle theft Fraud (total) Shoplifting of $5,000 or under Uttering threats
number rate rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021 rate percent change in rate 2020 to 2021
St. John's 4 1.91 94 9 64 36 320 -1 106 -18 386 -6 480 86 463 4
HalifaxTable 7 Note 5 11 2.39 84 8 43 -4 242 9 75 -1 452 4 397 1,484 250 -19
Moncton 2 1.17 95 42 33 49 717 32 304 10 780 -11 453 36 387 9
Saint John 1 0.76 76 -14 17 -63 235 5 99 45 405 -4 189 30 211 -12
Saguenay 1 0.59 93 21 14 26 212 -17 69 -32 378 18 97 37 274 5
Québec 5 0.60 70 13 12 1 161 -8 66 18 468 7 89 -11 217 8
Sherbrooke 2 0.95 110 -2 17 -4 170 -10 49 8 481 24 226 9 138 -8
Trois-Rivières 0 0.00 128 43 22 -22 200 3 109 38 491 24 86 -21 213 2
Montréal 48 1.11 82 35 51 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 193 -14 232 31 387 3 125 7 184 14
GatineauTable 7 Note 6 3 0.87 80 55 18 -35 172 -17 55 -13 468 10 136 2 254 3
OttawaTable 7 Note 7 15 1.34 67 8 41 -12 213 -7 108 30 520 -8 368 26 126 17
Kingston 4 2.30 85 8 32 10 445 -2 122 18 586 13 254 8 181 14
Belleville 2 1.74 114 9 21 41 262 11 104 16 536 8 166 -10 242 -4
Peterborough 2 1.56 95 29 47 10 307 29 88 -1 413 -12 285 15 171 -4
Toronto 117 1.81 55 19 49 -18 151 -16 216 22 319 -5 134 -11 119 5
Hamilton 20 2.57 83 17 48 -10 252 3 241 14 356 14 224 38 146 15
St. Catharines–Niagara 6 1.24 79 23 37 -9 378 7 184 3 545 25 222 4 141 -2
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 2 0.33 83 11 46 -13 459 17 146 -4 665 5 267 -9 263 10
Brantford 5 3.21 96 14 42 -36 388 -15 297 5 470 3 249 24 167 1
Guelph 0 0.00 80 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 26 -35 372 2 134 13 482 -8 343 33 118 3
London 16 2.87 99 18 70 30 471 4 288 10 414 -17 669 143 193 43
Windsor 10 2.84 63 17 48 -11 478 4 269 18 505 -2 348 62 108 1
Barrie 2 0.76 70 -13 28 -2 166 14 124 35 361 -3 237 -12 137 6
Greater Sudbury 6 3.55 140 27 56 16 496 -15 147 -2 615 -20 229 18 248 3
Thunder Bay 7 5.63 142 48 154 44 425 -2 154 2 416 -10 385 -23 263 32
Winnipeg 45 5.39 98 1 232 2 672 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 381 1 476 -6 364 -54 159 5
Regina 15 5.67 85 7 106 -1 707 11 366 10 339 -6 458 -7 113 -8
Saskatoon 8 2.32 90 5 103 7 719 -2 308 2 542 1 245 -25 142 5
Lethbridge 1 0.78 117 -14 46 17 888 -5 324 11 760 -6 698 -16 270 -6
Calgary 22 1.41 69 18 77 15 447 -24 353 -10 385 -8 361 2 103 4
Edmonton 51 3.43 107 20 70 -19 504 -17 352 -7 544 -8 603 -20 166 3
Kelowna 4 1.75 105 12 46 -3 641 1 430 21 722 -2 870 32 425 14
Abbotsford–Mission 4 1.92 71 -10 63 13 352 -7 328 8 427 6 402 1 232 -14
Vancouver 60 2.16 60 14 57 -8 383 -21 154 -10 423 -11 430 4 205 -5
Victoria 5 1.21 115 49 43 10 328 -25 110 -7 432 -3 388 7 311 -2
Canada 788 2.06 90 18 48 -5 328 -10 218 6 441 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 248 3 229 3
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

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.

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Note 2

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3

The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 4

Due to the variability in small numbers, percent changes in the rates of homicide are not calculated.

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Note 5

The marked increase observed in 2021 for shoplifting under $5,000 violations for Halifax is due in part to a change in classification for some incidents involving retail theft. These incidents were previously reported as theft of $5,000 or under. Starting in mid-2021, they began reporting these as shoplifting under $5,000.

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

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

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Note: Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan areas are available beginning in 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. 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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