Table 3
Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents, by census metropolitan area, 2012 to 2022


Table 3
Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents, by census metropolitan area, 2012 to 2022
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported firearm-related violent crime incidents. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), 2022, 2021 and 2012 to 2021, calculated using number, rate, percent change in rate from 2021, percent change in rate from 2012, percent change in rate from average for 2012 to 2021 and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 3 Note 1 2022 2021 2012 to 2021
number rate percent change in rate from 2021 percent change in rate from 2012 percent change in rate from average for 2012 to 2021 number rate number average annual rate
Canada 13,937 36.7 8.9 35.0 24.4 12,566 33.7 104,895 29.5
Urban areas (CMA and CA)Table 3 Note 2 10,837 33.8 12.5 30.1 21.1 9,446 30.1 83,287 27.9
Total census metropolitan areasTable 3 Note 2 9,112 33.5 15.9 24.2 19.1 7,701 28.9 70,575 28.1
St. John's 76 35.6 18.5 84.3 32.2 63 30.0 557 26.9
Halifax 137 28.5 -12.0 -41.2 4.6 149 32.4 1,156 27.3
Moncton 82 45.6 39.6 13.8 33.4 56 32.7 539 34.2
Saguenay 22 12.8 -27.4 7.1 -15.9 30 17.6 256 15.2
Sherbrooke 33 15.5 35.5 97.3 22.4 24 11.4 252 12.6
Trois-Rivières 32 19.4 -12.4 41.1 4.6 36 22.1 290 18.5
Montréal 1,219 28.0 0.4 -19.8 8.8 1,204 27.9 10,641 25.8
GatineauTable 3 Note 3 115 33.1 75.5 62.3 60.3 65 18.9 683 20.7
OttawaTable 3 Note 4 264 23.2 4.9 16.7 1.9 247 22.1 2,353 22.7
Kingston 31 17.4 -17.8 57.4 20.5 37 21.2 242 14.5
BellevilleTable 3 Note 5 25 21.4 2.7 Note ...: not applicable 22.9 24 20.8 114 17.4
Peterborough 25 19.1 29.4 21.7 37.9 19 14.7 173 13.8
TorontoTable 3 Note 6 2,576 43.2 36.4 67.3 24.9 1,851 31.7 19,248 34.6
HamiltonTable 3 Note 7 230 38.5 32.3 8.1 13.2 171 29.1 1,905 34.0
St. Catharines-Niagara 112 22.6 -18.6 54.7 21.4 135 27.7 863 18.6
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 249 39.3 52.9 48.4 73.2 157 25.7 1,281 22.7
Brantford 61 40.0 38.6 114.0 42.8 43 28.9 392 28.0
Guelph 27 18.0 32.3 64.2 32.1 20 13.6 187 13.6
London 140 24.3 0.6 15.5 31.9 135 24.1 961 18.4
Windsor 103 31.6 10.7 89.8 33.6 91 28.5 735 23.6
Barrie 25 13.9 11.4 -1.1 -16.1 22 12.5 256 16.6
Greater Sudbury 62 36.2 65.3 298.5 154.6 37 21.9 237 14.2
Thunder Bay 40 32.1 17.6 286.5 75.2 34 27.3 226 18.3
Winnipeg 462 54.2 -11.4 57.3 6.7 514 61.2 4,106 50.8
Regina 223 83.0 -4.9 269.7 34.5 231 87.2 1,534 61.7
Saskatoon 190 54.3 -10.5 9.9 8.5 208 60.7 1,580 50.1
LethbridgeTable 3 Note 5 35 26.6 -14.8 Note ...: not applicable -6.5 40 31.3 212 28.5
Calgary 692 43.0 5.1 87.0 33.5 638 40.9 4,685 32.2
Edmonton 621 40.8 22.2 36.1 13.1 496 33.4 4,973 36.1
Kelowna 55 23.5 -18.9 20.8 18.1 66 29.0 408 19.9
Abbotsford-Mission 86 40.5 72.1 45.8 45.6 49 23.5 533 27.8
Vancouver 672 23.6 23.8 -32.1 -4.8 528 19.1 6,458 24.8
Victoria 90 21.3 63.0 112.3 108.0 54 13.1 396 10.2
... not applicable
Note 1

The Oshawa census metropolitan area (CMA) is not presented in this table due to the incongruity between police service jurisdictional boundaries and CMA boundaries. The CMA of Saint John is not presented in this table due to the exclusion of data from the Saint John Police Service, but is included (except Saint John Police Service) in the CMA total. The CMA of Québec is not presented in this table due to the exclusion of data from the Québec City Police Service (See "Data sources and concepts" for further information), but is included (except Québec City Police Service) in the CMA total.

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Note 2

Includes all census metropolitan areas (CMAs), including the Saint John CMA (excludes the Saint John Police Service) and the Québec CMA (excludes the Québec City Police Service), and the Halton and Durham police services.

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Note 3

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 4

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 5

As of the 2016 Census, Belleville and Lethbridge became new census metropolitan areas (CMAs). Average rates for these CMAs are calculated from 2016 to 2021.

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Note 6

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto CMA.

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Note 7

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton CMA.

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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. A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A census metropolitan area (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. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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