Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and type of violation, Canada, 2021

Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and type of violation, Canada, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Type of violation (appearing as row headers), 11 and younger, 12 to 17, 18 to 24, 25 to 34, 35 to 44, 45 and older and Total, calculated using rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation	11 and younger	12 to 17	18 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 and older	Total
Type of violation	rate
Men and boys
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 1 Note 1}	1	5	15	12	8	3	6
Sexual offences	79	137	43	25	15	5	31
Sexual assault^{Table 1 Note 2}	34	66	33	20	12	4	18
Sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 3}	40	50	1	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	9
Historical sexual offence^{Table 1 Note 4}	4	5	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	0	0	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	1
Other^{Table 1 Note 5}	2	16	8	5	3	1	4
Physical assault offences	248	910	1,134	1,235	991	462	708
Level 1 (common assault)	188	611	682	667	561	308	433
Level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm)	53	272	361	364	305	128	207
Level 3 (aggravated assault)	2	10	28	30	21	7	14
Other assaults^{Table 1 Note 6}	4	17	63	173	105	19	55
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence	55	435	469	408	366	191	270
Robbery^{Table 1 Note 7}	3	115	159	97	64	31	58
Extortion	0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	44	51	17	10	6	14
Criminal harassment	3	24	23	30	37	18	21
Indecent or harassing communications	1	16	17	20	23	11	13
Uttering threats	36	218	205	228	221	121	153
Other^{Table 1 Note 8}	11	18	14	16	12	5	10
Total	384	1,487	1,660	1,681	1,381	662	1,015
Women and girls
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder^{Table 1 Note 1}	1	2	4	3	3	2	2
Sexual offences	278	1,281	469	243	133	35	220
Sexual assault^{Table 1 Note 2}	106	744	419	219	122	33	156
Sexual violations against children^{Table 1 Note 3}	161	459	6	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	49
Historical sexual offence^{Table 1 Note 4}	7	8	2	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	0	0	1
Other^{Table 1 Note 5}	5	70	43	23	11	2	14
Physical assault offences	178	837	1,421	1,458	1,080	328	686
Level 1 (common assault)	135	632	1,034	1,051	792	253	508
Level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm)	38	187	344	338	250	67	155
Level 3 (aggravated assault)	2	5	14	16	10	2	6
Other assaults^{Table 1 Note 6}	3	14	29	54	28	5	17
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence	56	454	547	531	433	154	282
Robbery^{Table 1 Note 7}	1	28	67	46	33	15	25
Extortion	1	26	18	9	7	3	7
Criminal harassment	4	84	124	134	115	32	65
Indecent or harassing communications	3	51	59	64	51	16	31
Uttering threats	35	220	208	226	195	80	129
Other^{Table 1 Note 8}	12	45	72	52	32	8	25
Total	513	2,574	2,442	2,235	1,649	518	1,190
0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded Note 1 Includes first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, other related violations causing death and attempted murder. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, making sexually explicit material available to a child, parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting sexual activity, luring a child by means of a computer, agreement or arrangement (sexual offences against a child) and bestiality (in presence of, or incites, a child). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes sexual offences which occurred prior to January 4, 1983. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, bestiality (commit, compel or incite a person), voyeurism and non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Also includes corrupting the morals of a child, anal intercourse and other sexual violations. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharging a firearm with intent, using a firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace-public officer, assault against a peace-public officer with a weapon or causing bodily harm, aggravated assault against a peace-public officer, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to or causing bodily harm and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes robbery and robbery to steal a firearm. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes victims where gender or age was coded as unknown and those where age was greater than 110 are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Excludes victim data reported by the Canadian Forces Military Police. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2023-01-12

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Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and type of violation, Canada, 2021

Table 1 Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and type of violation, Canada, 2021

Table 1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and type of violation, Canada, 2021