Table 15
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2021


Table 15
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, by census metropolitan area, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Census
metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Population, Total Crime
Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using number, index, percent change 2020 to 2021 and percent change 2011 to 2021 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan area (CMA)Table 15 Note 1 Table 15 Note 2 Table 15 Note 3		 Population Total Crime
Severity Index		 Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
number index percent change 2020 to 2021 percent change 2011 to 2021 index percent change 2020 to 2021 index percent change 2020 to 2021
St. John's 209,936 67.9 6 -21 98.2 18 56.8 -1
Halifax 460,232 65.7 6 -26 91.7 8 56.2 5
MonctonTable 15 Note 4 170,933 113.4 9 66 98.0 21 118.7 6
Saint JohnTable 15 Note 4 132,057 51.1 -2 -26 53.8 -23 50.0 10
Saguenay 170,570 50.0 14 -32 81.6 34 38.5 2
Québec 827,978 42.6 2 -19 59.7 5 36.4 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Sherbrooke 210,423 50.9 6 -16 73.9 8 42.5 5
Trois-Rivières 162,772 50.6 6 -27 76.7 4 41.2 7
Montréal 4,324,873 55.9 6 -30 82.0 12 46.4 2
GatineauTable 15 Note 5 344,444 49.6 -4 -23 72.5 -2 41.2 -5
OttawaTable 15 Note 6 1,120,699 49.3 4 -15 62.3 12 44.4 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Kingston 173,845 72.8 3 23 76.0 2 71.5 4
BellevilleTable 15 Note 7 114,891 69.3 8 Note ...: not applicable 83.8 17 64.0 5
Peterborough 128,197 64.8 4 2 84.4 2 57.6 5
Toronto 6,481,576 45.5 -2 -19 65.0 -2 38.3 -1
Hamilton 779,099 56.9 2 -12 76.5 -1 49.7 4
St. Catharines–Niagara 484,840 62.1 6 1 64.2 9 61.2 4
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 611,493 79.4 6 24 86.6 2 76.6 7
Brantford 155,683 75.7 -7 -17 87.3 -9 71.4 -6
Guelph 146,600 58.2 -8 22 51.6 -22 60.5 -2
London 558,298 80.1 7 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 92.8 35 75.3 -2
Windsor 351,611 74.8 6 19 72.1 3 75.7 7
Barrie 263,800 45.9 2 -13 50.2 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 44.3 2
Greater Sudbury 169,079 84.4 -4 7 127.2 13 68.8 -13
Thunder Bay 124,347 101.3 7 -4 176.3 13 74.1 2
Winnipeg 834,335 113.6 -3 10 159.6 3 96.7 -6
Regina 264,377 110.9 6 -11 141.3 10 99.8 3
Saskatoon 344,568 106.0 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -8 121.4 1 100.2 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
LethbridgeTable 15 Note 7 127,831 128.7 -7 Note ...: not applicable 114.3 3 133.5 -10
Calgary 1,560,212 72.3 -9 11 82.7 5 68.3 -14
Edmonton 1,484,741 97.5 -8 12 110.0 -2 92.7 -10
Kelowna 228,230 122.3 6 24 110.8 14 126.2 4
Abbotsford–Mission 208,468 78.2 1 -13 85.8 -1 75.3 2
Vancouver 2,773,891 81.6 -8 -15 79.0 2 82.4 -11
Victoria 414,610 71.5 -6 -2 82.4 12 67.3 -12
Canada 38,246,108 73.7 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded -5 92.5 5 66.7 -3
... not applicable
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

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data from 2014 to 2021 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 5

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

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Note 6

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

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Note 7

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs. As such, data prior to 2016 are not available.

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Note: Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. 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 by census metropolitan area 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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