Table 16
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2021


Table 16
Police-reported crime rate, by census metropolitan area, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported crime rate. The information is grouped by Census
metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Total crime (crime rate), Violent crime, Property crime, Other Criminal Code offences and Drug offences, calculated using rate, percent change 2020 to 2021 and percent change 2011 to 2021 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census
metropolitan area (CMA)Table 16 Note 1 Table 16 Note 2 Table 16 Note 3		 Total crime (crime rate)Table 16 Note 4 Violent crime Property crime Other Criminal Code offences Drug offences
rate percent change 2020 to 2021 percent change 2011 to 2021 rate percent change 2020 to 2021 rate percent change 2020 to 2021 rate percent change 2020 to 2021 rate percent change 2020 to 2021
St. John's 5,096 2 -26 1,677 8 2,570 -3 849 4 32 -21
Halifax 4,884 4 -26 1,245 -4 3,000 12 639 -12 60 -21
MonctonTable 16 Note 5 9,168 7 54 1,802 1 5,380 9 1,986 6 202 -33
Saint JohnTable 16 Note 5 4,216 4 -25 1,106 -10 2,384 17 727 -6 53 29
Saguenay 3,090 11 -26 1,159 16 1,414 8 517 10 93 2
Québec 2,844 1 -20 1,054 9 1,478 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 311 -19 133 -2
Sherbrooke 3,121 5 -19 879 7 1,593 13 649 -12 144 -18
Trois-Rivières 3,142 12 -28 1,227 16 1,513 6 403 19 135 6
Montréal 3,199 5 -33 1,097 12 1,779 3 323 -6 189 13
GatineauTable 16 Note 6 3,136 2 -31 1,155 8 1,553 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 428 -6 125 -27
OttawaTable 16 Note 7 3,470 7 -16 741 6 2,173 4 555 22 50 -23
Kingston 5,293 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 6 1,182 5 3,497 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 614 -6 86 16
BellevilleTable 16 Note 8 5,401 11 Note ...: not applicable 1,273 7 2,542 5 1,586 26 181 6
Peterborough 4,718 4 3 984 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2,726 5 1,008 6 101 -15
Toronto 3,007 3 -12 787 4 1,925 1 294 12 65 -4
Hamilton 3,886 7 -16 930 8 2,429 8 527 -1 146 -11
St. Catharines–Niagara 4,030 5 -8 859 7 2,710 8 461 -15 113 -40
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5,582 6 17 1,444 7 3,376 4 762 14 86 -17
Brantford 5,642 6 -17 1,245 -3 3,129 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1,267 43 157 -37
Guelph 4,407 -2 11 760 -7 2,821 -4 825 15 83 -20
London 5,714 1 -3 1,160 25 3,925 -2 629 -14 86 6
Windsor 4,727 6 2 800 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 3,325 6 602 13 270 11
Barrie 3,506 -1 -26 783 -6 1,992 -1 730 9 101 5
Greater Sudbury 5,402 -4 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1,614 13 3,172 -8 615 -16 83 2
Thunder Bay 6,122 2 -26 2,134 28 2,842 -10 1,145 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 183 16
Winnipeg 7,081 -7 8 1,409 5 5,003 -10 669 -5 71 -16
Regina 7,497 4 -24 1,281 5 4,330 3 1,886 5 70 -38
Saskatoon 7,412 2 -22 1,314 6 4,109 -1 1,989 4 129 -6
LethbridgeTable 16 Note 8 9,836 -7 Note ...: not applicable 1,923 2 6,094 -12 1,820 -1 710 -7
Calgary 5,375 -3 16 1,032 8 3,294 -12 1,050 26 81 -7
Edmonton 7,282 -5 6 1,221 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 4,131 -12 1,930 9 93 -34
Kelowna 11,112 10 33 1,980 11 6,463 8 2,669 16 325 -40
Abbotsford–Mission 5,801 -1 -14 1,308 -5 3,481 1 1,013 2 195 Note 0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Vancouver 5,898 -7 -19 1,137 -3 3,484 -10 1,277 -2 374 -5
Victoria 5,863 -6 -11 1,540 9 3,316 -13 1,007 2 103 -20
Canada 5,375 1 -7 1,323 5 3,044 -1 1,008 2 162 -9
... 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

Crime rates are based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. See Table 3 for a list of offences included in the violent crime, property crime and other Criminal Code offences categories.

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Note 5

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. Therefore, 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 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 8

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new CMAs. Therefore, 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. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime by census metropolitan area are available from 1991. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based on 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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