Table 1
Rate of homicide, by presence of gender-related criterion, province or territories, and urban or rural location, Canada, 2011, 2016, 2021


Table 1
Rate of homicide, by presence of gender-related criterion, province or territories, and urban or rural location, Canada, 2011, 2016, 2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Rate of homicide. The information is grouped by Province and territories and urban or rural area (appearing as row headers), 2011, 2016, 2021, Gender-related homicides of women and girls and Non-gender related homicides, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territories and urban or rural areaTable 1 Note 2 2011 2016 2021
Gender-related homicides of women and girlsTable 1 Note 1 Non-gender related homicides Gender-related homicides of women and girlsTable 1 Note 1 Non-gender related homicides Gender-related homicides of women and girlsTable 1 Note 1 Non-gender related homicides
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Atlantic Canada 10 0.83 25 1.06 3 0.25 28 1.17 4 0.32 37 1.50
Urban 4 0.56 22 1.57 1 0.13 24 1.61 2 0.25 27 1.72
Rural 6 1.23 3 0.31 2 0.45 4 0.45 2 0.44 10 1.12
Quebec 22 0.55 84 1.05 10 0.24 57 0.69 22 0.51 66 0.77
Urban 14 0.42 67 1.02 10 0.29 51 0.75 14 0.39 54 0.76
Rural 8 1.11 17 1.16 0 0.00 6 0.43 8 1.12 12 0.82
Ontario 39 0.58 124 0.94 34 0.48 172 1.24 39 0.52 237 1.60
Urban 34 0.56 116 0.97 28 0.44 164 1.31 35 0.51 220 1.64
Rural 5 0.74 8 0.59 6 0.91 8 0.60 4 0.58 17 1.22
Manitoba 5 0.80 49 3.97 4 0.61 38 2.89 5 0.72 54 3.90
Urban 4 0.90 37 4.23 2 0.43 27 2.93 1 0.20 39 3.99
Rural 1 0.56 12 3.34 2 1.03 11 2.80 4 2.00 15 3.69
Saskatchewan 3 0.57 35 3.31 11 1.97 45 4.00 6 1.03 63 5.39
Urban 2 0.60 18 2.74 4 1.11 20 2.78 2 0.52 42 5.49
Rural 1 0.51 17 4.26 7 3.53 25 6.19 4 2.03 21 5.21
Alberta 21 1.12 94 2.47 13 0.62 103 2.45 15 0.68 103 2.31
Urban 14 0.92 72 2.35 8 0.46 88 2.53 9 0.49 78 2.10
Rural 7 1.96 22 3.01 5 1.39 15 2.04 6 1.65 25 3.36
British Columbia 15 0.66 73 1.62 17 0.69 73 1.50 11 0.42 112 2.15
Urban 12 0.60 59 1.48 15 0.68 66 1.52 8 0.34 96 2.06
Rural 3 1.20 14 2.75 2 0.77 7 1.32 3 1.09 16 2.87
Territories 5 9.10 5 4.42 1 1.71 7 5.83 2 3.20 5 3.91
UrbanTable 1 Note 3 0 0.00 1 2.04 0 0.00 2 3.76 0 0.00 2 3.38
Rural 5 16.20 4 6.25 1 3.09 5 7.47 2 5.98 3 4.36
Canada 120 0.69 489 1.42 93 0.51 523 1.45 104 0.54 677 1.77
Urban 84 0.58 392 1.38 68 0.44 442 1.46 71 0.44 558 1.73
Rural 36 1.24 97 1.66 25 0.88 81 1.41 33 1.13 119 2.00
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Gender-related homicides of women and girls are solved homicides committed by a male accused who was an intimate partner or family member of the victim, inflicted sexual violence on the victim as part of the killing or killed a victim who was identified as a sex worker. Non-gender-related homicides are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers.

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Note 2

An urban area is defined as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA). A 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, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. Rural areas are all areas outside of CMAs and CAs.

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Note 3

Nunavut is excluded from the national total of urban areas due to its entire population residing in the rural North.

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Note: There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. 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 and accused where gender was coded as unknown. The year 2019 marked the first cycle of collection of the Homicide Survey data for which information on gender identity was reported for victims and persons accused of homicide. Gender refers to the gender a person publicly expresses in their daily life, including at work, while shopping or accessing other services, in their housing environment or in the broader community. Prior to 2019, Homicide Survey data was presented by the sex of the victims and accused persons. Sex and gender refer to two different concepts. Caution should be exercised when comparing counts for sex with those for gender. Given that small counts of victims and accused persons reported or were identified as being non-binary, the aggregate Homicide Survey data available to the public has been recoded to distribute these counts to either "men" or "women" in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims and accused persons who reported or were identified as being non-binary have been distributed to either men or women categories based on the regional distribution of victims’ or accused persons’ gender. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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