Table 1
Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents, provinces and territories, urban and rural areas, southern and northern regions, 2012, 2021, and 2022


Table 1
Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents, provinces and territories, urban and rural areas, southern and northern regions, 2012, 2021, and 2022
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents. The information is grouped by Provinces and territories, urban and rural areas of the northern and southern regions (appearing as row headers), 2022, 2021 and 2012, calculated using number, percent, rate, percent change in rate from 2021 and percent change in rate from 2012 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Provinces and territories, urban and rural areas of the northern and southern regions 2022 2021 2012
number percent rateTable 1 Note 1 percent change in rate from 2021 percent change in rate from 2012 number percent rateTable 1 Note 1 number percent rateTable 1 Note 1
Canada 13,937 2.8 36.7 8.9 35.0 12,566 2.6 33.7 9,203 2.3 27.2
Southern urban areas 10,283 2.9 33.5 13.4 28.5 8,893 2.6 29.5 6,989 2.6 26.0
Northern urban areas 511 1.8 41.1 -0.4 61.7 510 1.9 41.3 306 1.4 25.4
Southern rural areas 1,671 2.4 33.5 -6.8 32.0 1,768 2.5 35.9 1,219 2.0 25.4
Northern rural areas 1,260 3.3 148.9 6.5 120.2 1,173 3.1 139.8 571 1.8 67.6
Territories 212 1.6 163.0 -5.7 58.2 222 1.8 172.8 118 1.4 103.0
Newfoundland and Labrador 120 1.3 22.8 -8.7 4.4 130 1.4 25.0 115 1.5 21.8
Southern urban areas 88 1.8 29.4 18.8 67.5 73 1.5 24.8 39 1.1 17.6
Southern rural areas 25 0.9 12.6 -36.2 -31.9 39 1.4 19.7 51 1.7 18.4
Northern rural areas 7 0.4 25.1 -61.3 -72.2 18 1.0 64.8 25 1.9 90.1
Prince Edward Island 17 0.7 10.0 9.4 -24.2 15 0.7 9.1 19 1.1 13.1
Southern urban areas 8 0.5 7.2 28.5 -53.2 6 0.5 5.6 14 1.2 15.4
Southern rural areas 9 1.2 15.1 -3.2 61.9 9 1.2 15.6 5 1.0 9.3
Nova Scotia 291 1.8 28.7 -3.1 -14.6 292 2.0 29.6 315 2.5 33.5
Southern urban areas 201 2.0 29.7 -7.1 -24.3 209 2.4 32.0 237 3.2 39.2
Southern rural areas 90 1.5 26.6 6.7 14.2 83 1.4 24.9 78 1.5 23.3
New Brunswick 300 2.3 40.6 23.7 47.9 236 1.9 32.8 189 2.0 27.5
Southern urban areas 163 2.2 35.8 32.7 63.0 119 1.7 27.0 91 1.7 22.0
Southern rural areas 137 2.5 48.2 14.8 35.2 117 2.0 42.0 98 2.4 35.7
QuebecTable 1 Note 2 1,994 2.1 24.8 -1.3 -11.5 1,999 2.2 25.1 2,086 2.8 28.0
Southern urban areas 1,620 2.2 25.8 1.2 -12.5 1,586 2.3 25.5 1,687 3.0 29.5
Northern urban areas 52 1.1 16.6 -26.2 12.5 70 1.6 22.5 46 1.2 14.7
Southern rural areas 291 1.9 21.2 -9.1 -14.0 315 2.1 23.3 328 2.4 24.6
Northern rural areasTable 1 Note 3 31 1.9 43.4 10.4 29.7 28 1.6 39.3 25 1.8 33.5
Ontario 4,791 3.3 32.1 24.4 52.9 3,775 2.8 25.8 2,780 2.4 21.0
Southern urban areas 4,342 3.6 33.3 27.6 50.9 3,332 3.0 26.1 2,521 2.6 22.1
Northern urban areas 205 2.0 39.0 1.1 286.7 201 2.0 38.6 52 0.8 10.1
Southern rural areas 156 1.8 13.9 -2.9 3.3 158 1.8 14.3 143 1.7 13.5
Northern rural areas 88 1.6 34.8 3.3 36.7 84 1.6 33.7 64 1.1 25.5
Manitoba 961 2.9 70.5 0.1 84.6 948 3.2 70.4 464 1.9 38.2
Southern urban areas 506 3.2 52.9 -10.3 63.9 556 4.0 58.9 284 2.4 32.3
Northern urban areas 27 1.4 197.0 297.0 88.2 7 0.4 49.6 14 1.6 104.7
Southern rural areas 156 3.2 50.9 -12.0 78.3 175 3.5 57.8 69 1.6 28.6
Northern rural areas 272 2.8 318.5 29.0 160.3 210 2.3 246.9 97 1.4 122.4
Saskatchewan 1,282 4.4 109.6 -7.0 138.2 1,363 4.8 117.9 487 2.1 46.0
Southern urban areas 634 4.8 83.0 -6.7 118.7 670 5.3 89.0 251 2.3 38.0
Southern rural areas 339 3.7 92.6 -17.9 100.5 410 4.5 112.8 166 2.3 46.2
Northern rural areas 309 4.4 766.3 8.1 319.4 283 4.2 708.9 70 1.4 182.7
Alberta 2,481 3.6 54.5 5.9 64.0 2,292 3.5 51.5 1,290 2.4 33.2
Southern urban areas 1,546 3.4 42.4 8.5 63.8 1,388 3.1 39.1 777 2.4 25.9
Northern urban areas 105 2.3 65.8 2.7 3.5 102 2.4 64.1 95 2.4 63.6
Southern rural areas 341 3.7 69.1 1.7 63.7 333 3.7 67.9 199 2.3 42.2
Northern rural areas 489 5.5 194.4 3.4 129.4 469 5.2 188.0 219 2.6 84.7
British Columbia 1,488 1.8 28.0 12.5 -4.7 1,294 1.6 24.9 1,340 2.1 29.3
Southern urban areas 1,175 1.9 26.0 20.2 -8.4 954 1.5 21.6 1,088 2.3 28.3
Northern urban areas 122 1.8 53.0 -6.5 14.1 130 2.0 56.6 99 1.6 46.4
Southern rural areas 127 1.8 28.5 -2.8 38.0 129 1.7 29.3 82 1.4 20.7
Northern rural areas 64 1.7 54.9 -21.3 -11.3 81 2.0 69.8 71 1.9 61.9
Yukon 33 1.5 75.1 4.6 94.3 31 1.4 71.8 14 1.0 38.6
Northwest Territories 105 1.9 230.2 8.2 195.6 97 1.8 212.7 34 1.0 77.9
Nunavut 74 1.5 182.6 -22.9 -9.6 94 2.0 236.7 70 2.1 201.9
Note 1

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 2

In Quebec, the information management system used by a majority of police services generates a relatively high proportion of unknown values for the variable “most dangerous weapon present in the incident”. Although firearm-related crimes are likely correctly recorded in the vast majority of cases, undercounting remains possible. Therefore, caution should be used when comparing data from Quebec to data from other provinces or territories. See "Data sources and concepts" for further information.

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Note 3

Excludes Nunavik due to the unavailability of firearm-related violent crime detailed data.

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Note: Firearm-related violent crimes include incidents where the most serious violation is a firearm-specific violent offence (pointing a firearm, discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence) and other violent crimes where the most serious weapon present in the incident was a firearm. The number of incidents represents the number of victims, in addition to incidents for which the police did not provide victim records. Rural police services are those where the majority of the population lives outside of a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). Urban police services are those where the majority of the population lives within a CMA or CA. See "Data sources and concepts" for further information. Provincial North encompasses the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia (North and South ― Variant of Standard Geographical Classification 2021).
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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