Table 5
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and incident characteristic, Canada, 2021

Table 5
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and incident characteristic, Canada, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Incident characteristic (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 percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident characteristic	11 and younger	12 to 17	18 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 and older	Total
Incident characteristic	percent
Men and boys
Incident location
Private property^{Table 5 Note 1}	68	38	43	47	50	52	49
Outdoor location^{Table 5 Note 2}	15	32	30	28	27	25	27
Commercial location^{Table 5 Note 3}	3	5	19	16	14	14	14
School^{Table 5 Note 4}	11	21	1	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	1	1	3
Other^{Table 5 Note 5}	3	4	7	9	8	7	7
Unknown location	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Incident time
Night^{Table 5 Note 6}	7	9	22	20	16	12	16
Morning^{Table 5 Note 7}	20	15	14	17	19	21	18
Afternoon^{Table 5 Note 8}	43	42	27	29	31	35	33
Evening^{Table 5 Note 9}	30	34	36	34	34	32	34
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Weapon present
No weapon^{Table 5 Note 10}	10	10	6	6	7	8	7
Threats^{Table 5 Note 11}	6	11	10	10	12	13	11
Physical force	64	51	49	51	49	52	51
Weapon present	20	28	35	33	32	27	30
Firearm	1	4	6	4	3	2	4
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 5 Note 12}	4	10	12	11	10	8	10
Club or other blunt instrument	3	3	4	5	5	5	4
Other weapon^{Table 5 Note 13}	11	11	13	13	14	12	12
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Level of injury
No physical injury^{Table 5 Note 14}	65	63	58	57	59	62	60
Physical injury	35	37	42	43	41	38	40
Minor physical injury^{Table 5 Note 15}	33	34	38	38	37	35	37
Major physical injury^{Table 5 Note 16}	2	2	4	5	4	3	4
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Women and girls
Incident location
Private property^{Table 5 Note 1}	78	60	66	70	72	69	69
Outdoor location^{Table 5 Note 2}	9	17	17	15	14	13	15
Commercial location^{Table 5 Note 3}	2	5	11	9	9	9	9
School^{Table 5 Note 4}	7	14	1	Note 0^s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded	1	1	3
Other^{Table 5 Note 5}	3	4	4	5	5	8	6
Unknown location	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Incident time
Night^{Table 5 Note 6}	10	13	21	19	16	12	16
Morning^{Table 5 Note 7}	21	18	18	20	20	20	19
Afternoon^{Table 5 Note 8}	38	38	28	29	31	36	32
Evening^{Table 5 Note 9}	31	31	33	32	33	32	32
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Weapon present
No weapon^{Table 5 Note 10}	18	22	12	11	12	12	13
Threats^{Table 5 Note 11}	5	7	8	9	10	12	9
Physical force	66	60	65	64	61	60	62
Weapon present	12	11	16	16	17	16	15
Firearm	1	1	2	2	2	1	2
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 5 Note 12}	2	3	4	4	4	4	4
Club or other blunt instrument	2	1	2	2	2	2	2
Other weapon^{Table 5 Note 13}	7	6	8	9	9	8	8
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Level of injury
No physical injury^{Table 5 Note 14}	76	76	60	58	60	66	63
Physical injury	24	24	40	42	40	34	37
Minor physical injury^{Table 5 Note 15}	23	24	39	40	38	33	35
Major physical injury^{Table 5 Note 16}	1	1	2	2	2	2	1
Unknown	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
... not applicable 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 houses, dwelling units and private property structures. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes transit buses, bus shelters, subways, subway stations, other forms of public transportation and connected facilities. Also includes parking lots, streets, roads, highways and other open areas (e.g., playgrounds, parks, fields). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes commercial residences (e.g., hotel rooms, short-term rentals) and other corporate locations where the principal purpose is to conduct legitimate business for profit. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes schools—junior kindergarten through grade 13 or College of General and Professional Teaching (CEGEP)—and universities and colleges during supervised and unsupervised activities. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes religious institutions, hospitals, group housing (e.g., homeless shelters, nursing homes, retirement homes, halfway houses) and other non-commercial locations (e.g., government buildings, community centres). Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes 12:00 AM to 5:59 AM. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes 6:00 AM to 11:59 AM. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes 12:00 PM to 5:59 PM. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes 6:00 PM to 11:59 PM. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes no threat, physical force or weapon. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 11 referrer Note 12 Includes other piercing or cutting instruments, such as hatchets, razor blades and arrows. Return to note 12 referrer Note 13 Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, rope, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified. Return to note 13 referrer Note 14 Includes incidents that did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force as well as those in which a weapon or physical force was used but no visible physical injury was noted by police. Return to note 14 referrer Note 15 Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice). Return to note 15 referrer Note 16 Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death. Return to note 16 referrer Note: 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. For incident location, time, presence of weapon and injury sustained, percent calculations exclude unknown values. 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 5
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and incident characteristic, Canada, 2021

Table 5 Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and incident characteristic, Canada, 2021

Table 5
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by victim age group and gender, and incident characteristic, Canada, 2021