Table 1
Incidents of police-reported violent crime, by most serious weapon present, province or territory and region, 2023

Table 1
Incidents of police-reported violent crime, by most serious weapon present, province or territory and region, 2023 Table summary
The information is grouped by Province or territory and region (appearing as row headers), Firearm1, Other weapon2, No weapon3, Unknown weapon and Total, calculated using number, rate, number, rate, number, rate, number, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory and region Firearm Table 1 Note 1 Other weapon Table 1 Note 2 No weapon Table 1 Note 3 Unknown weapon Total
number rate number rate number rate number number rate
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Note 1

Includes handguns, rifles, shotguns, fully automatic firearms, sawed-off shotguns, firearm-like weapons (e.g., starter pistols, flare guns, air guns, ghost guns, BB guns) and unknown types of firearms. Also includes violent crime where the most serious violation was a firearm-specific violent offence (discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm) and the type of weapon was unknown.

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Note 2

Includes knives and other piercing or cutting instruments, clubs and other blunt instruments, explosives, fire, motor vehicles, ropes and other strangulation instruments, burning liquids and other caustic agents, and other weapons.

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Note 3

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 4

Data for the census metropolitan area of Saint John are excluded due to data quality concerns associated with the Saint John Police Service.

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Note 5

In Quebec, the information management system used by the majority of police services produces a relatively high proportion of unknown values for the variable “most serious weapon present.” Although incidents of firearm-related crime are likely recorded correctly for the vast majority of cases, undercounting remains possible. Therefore, caution should be used when comparing data from Quebec to data from other provinces and territories.

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Note 6

Excludes Nunavik as detailed data about firearm-related violent crime are unavailable.

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Note 7

Due to data quality concerns, Canada and regional totals exclude the province of Quebec for other weapon, no weapon and unknown weapon. As such, individual weapon categories will not add to total.

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Note: The number of incidents represents the number of victims as well as incidents where the police did not provide victim records. Provincial south includes Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the southern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Provincial north includes the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. 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. Due to data quality concerns, weapon analysis excludes data from the province of Quebec unless the most serious weapon present was a firearm, and data from the Québec City Police Service are also excluded regardless of the most serious weapon present. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
Newfoundland and Labrador 118 21.9 1,271 235.9 7,792 1,446.4 844 10,025 1,860.9
Urban south 57 19.4 596 203.2 3,990 1,360.1 420 5,063 1,725.9
Rural south 46 21.2 377 173.5 2,632 1,211.2 202 3,257 1,498.8
Rural north 15 53.5 298 1,061.9 1,170 4,169.2 222 1,705 6,075.6
Prince Edward Island 45 25.9 250 144.1 2,304 1,328.3 186 2,785 1,605.6
Urban south 24 21.1 197 173.0 1,550 1,361.0 150 1,921 1,686.8
Rural south 21 35.3 53 89.0 754 1,265.7 36 864 1,450.3
Nova Scotia 333 31.6 1,927 182.7 13,829 1,311.5 813 16,902 1,602.9
Urban south 204 27.9 1,317 180.3 8,961 1,226.7 335 10,817 1,480.8
Rural south 129 39.8 610 188.3 4,868 1,502.4 478 6,085 1,878.0
New Brunswick 313 41.2 1,760 231.6 11,177 1,470.7 567 13,817 1,818.0
Urban south Table 1 Note 4 176 38.0 1,045 225.6 6,400 1,381.7 310 7,931 1,712.2
Rural south 137 46.2 715 240.9 4,777 1,609.5 257 5,886 1,983.1
Quebec Table 1 Note 5 2,015 24.6 . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period 103,614 1,264.4
Urban south 1,605 24.6 . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period 80,624 1,233.3
Urban north 73 23.2 . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period 4,774 1,520.5
Rural south 310 24.4 . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period 16,228 1,275.6
Rural north Table 1 Note 6 27 37.8 . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period . not available for any reference period 1,988 2,782.6
Ontario 4,663 30.3 27,294 177.1 123,761 803.1 3,881 159,599 1,035.7
Urban south 4,213 31.3 23,446 174.3 102,791 764.4 2,935 133,385 991.9
Urban north 181 32.5 1,788 320.9 8,149 1,462.5 344 10,462 1,877.7
Rural south 191 16.6 1,168 101.5 7,938 689.6 330 9,627 836.3
Rural north 78 30.7 892 351.6 4,883 1,924.8 272 6,125 2,414.3
Manitoba 1,142 81.2 8,678 616.8 23,350 1,659.7 1,851 35,021 2,489.3
Urban south 527 51.9 5,035 496.0 12,048 1,186.8 360 17,970 1,770.2
Urban north 40 303.8 379 2,878.4 1,376 10,450.4 210 2,005 15,227.5
Rural south 229 78.5 798 273.4 3,576 1,225.3 372 4,975 1,704.6
Rural north 346 399.1 2,466 2,844.4 6,350 7,324.4 909 10,071 11,616.5
Saskatchewan 1,502 126.9 7,107 600.3 20,842 1,760.6 2,228 31,679 2,676.0
Urban south 715 89.1 4,077 508.2 10,011 1,247.8 652 15,455 1,926.3
Rural south 375 109.2 1,376 400.7 6,386 1,859.9 880 9,017 2,626.1
Rural north 412 1,080.2 1,654 4,336.7 4,445 11,654.4 696 7,207 18,896.2
Alberta 2,590 55.1 14,430 306.8 52,553 1,117.4 3,929 73,502 1,562.8
Urban south 1,587 42.1 11,043 292.8 35,668 945.8 1,848 50,146 1,329.7
Urban north 82 56.2 558 382.3 3,032 2,077.1 382 4,054 2,777.2
Rural south 450 87.4 1,328 258.0 7,124 1,384.0 904 9,806 1,905.1
Rural north 471 173.7 1,501 553.6 6,729 2,481.8 795 9,496 3,502.3
British Columbia 1,459 26.4 14,217 257.6 67,980 1,231.7 2,414 86,070 1,559.5
Urban south 1,096 23.1 11,802 248.6 53,640 1,129.8 1,651 68,189 1,436.3
Urban north 199 83.6 1,216 510.6 5,381 2,259.4 272 7,068 2,967.8
Rural south 103 24.1 761 178.1 5,924 1,386.1 231 7,019 1,642.4
Rural north 61 57.5 438 413.0 3,035 2,861.4 260 3,794 3,577.0
Yukon 32 70.8 291 644.0 1,696 3,753.3 239 2,258 4,997.0
Northwest Territories 77 171.2 587 1,305.3 3,993 8,878.9 521 5,178 11,513.8
Nunavut 127 312.2 673 1,654.7 4,130 10,154.2 441 5,371 13,205.3
Canada Table 1 Note 7 14,416 36.9 78,485 254.2 333,407 1,079.7 17,914 545,821 1,396.9
Provincial urban south 10,204 32.0 58,558 230.7 235,059 926.0 8,661 391,501 1,226.4
Provincial urban north 575 45.3 3,941 412.9 17,938 1,879.4 1,208 28,363 2,236.0
Provincial rural south 1,991 40.6 7,186 198.2 43,979 1,212.8 3,690 72,764 1,485.5
Provincial rural north 1,410 164.9 7,249 924.9 26,612 3,395.3 3,154 40,386 4,722.2
Territories 236 180.4 1,551 1,185.5 9,819 7,505.0 1,201 12,807 9,788.9
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