Table 2-a
Incidents of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by province or territory and region, 2013, 2018, 2022 and 2023

Table 2A
Incidents of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by province or territory and region, 2013, 2018, 2022 and 2023 Table summary
The information is grouped by Province or territory and region (appearing as row headers), 2023, 2022, 2018 and 2013, calculated using number, rate, percent1, number, rate, percent1, number, rate, percent1, number, rate and percent1 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory and region 2023 2022 2018 2013
number rate percent Table 2A Note 1 number rate percent Table 2A Note 1 number rate percent Table 2A Note 1 number rate percent Table 2A Note 1
Note 1

Reflects the proportion of violent crime that was firearm-related.

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Note 2

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 3

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 4

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

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Note: Firearm-related violent crime includes incidents 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 other violent crimes where the most serious weapon present in the incident was a firearm. 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, the Québec City Police Service is excluded. 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 1.2 124 23.3 1.3 130 24.6 1.8 100 19.0 1.4
Urban south 57 19.4 1.1 89 31.0 1.9 79 28.3 2.1 58 25.9 1.7
Rural south 46 21.2 1.4 28 12.9 0.9 37 16.7 1.7 36 13.1 1.3
Rural north 15 53.5 0.9 7 24.9 0.4 14 50.4 1.3 6 21.5 0.5
Prince Edward Island 45 25.9 1.6 17 10.2 0.7 25 16.5 1.6 8 5.6 0.6
Urban south 24 21.1 1.2 8 7.3 0.5 17 17.2 1.7 4 4.4 0.4
Rural south 21 35.3 2.4 9 15.5 1.2 8 15.0 1.4 4 7.5 0.9
Nova Scotia 333 31.6 2.0 307 30.1 1.9 201 21.0 1.7 226 24.1 2.0
Urban south 204 27.9 1.9 213 30.3 2.1 162 24.9 1.9 168 26.1 2.3
Rural south 129 39.8 2.1 94 29.4 1.6 39 12.7 1.1 58 19.8 1.4
New Brunswick 313 41.2 2.3 307 41.6 2.3 190 27.1 2.1 124 18.0 1.5
Urban south Table 2A Note 2 176 38.0 2.2 164 36.8 2.2 96 22.9 1.8 65 15.6 1.4
Rural south 137 46.2 2.3 143 49.1 2.5 94 33.3 2.6 59 21.5 1.7
Quebec Table 2A Note 3 2,015 24.6 1.9 2,050 25.6 2.2 1,596 20.6 2.1 1,852 24.7 2.6
Urban south 1,605 24.6 2.0 1,691 26.6 2.3 1,262 20.4 2.1 1,524 26.2 2.8
Urban north 73 23.2 1.5 52 16.8 1.1 89 28.9 2.4 47 15.0 1.3
Rural south 310 24.4 1.9 276 21.7 1.9 234 20.0 2.1 256 20.0 2.1
Rural north Table 2A Note 4 27 37.8 1.4 31 43.4 1.9 11 15.4 0.8 25 33.7 2.0
Ontario 4,663 30.3 2.9 4,843 32.4 3.3 4,058 28.7 3.3 2,425 18.2 2.2
Urban south 4,213 31.3 3.2 4,385 33.7 3.6 3,771 30.6 3.6 2,236 19.4 2.5
Urban north 181 32.5 1.7 211 38.8 2.1 106 20.0 1.3 68 13.0 1.0
Rural south 191 16.6 2.0 163 14.4 1.8 125 12.0 1.7 80 7.7 1.1
Rural north 78 30.7 1.3 84 33.7 1.6 56 23.3 1.3 41 16.9 0.9
Manitoba 1,142 81.2 3.3 976 71.4 3.0 787 60.1 3.1 469 38.2 2.2
Urban south 527 51.9 2.9 512 52.4 3.1 563 60.3 4.4 286 32.7 2.8
Urban north 40 303.8 2.0 27 203.8 1.4 13 93.8 0.9 5 37.2 0.6
Rural south 229 78.5 4.6 155 53.6 3.3 85 30.6 2.2 75 28.8 1.9
Rural north 346 399.1 3.4 282 325.9 2.8 126 148.2 1.7 103 129.4 1.6
Saskatchewan 1,502 126.9 4.7 1,316 114.1 4.4 943 83.4 4.1 445 41.4 2.1
Urban south 715 89.1 4.6 694 89.6 4.9 559 74.3 5.0 216 31.5 2.1
Rural south 375 109.2 4.2 305 89.3 3.6 218 64.2 3.5 148 42.1 2.2
Rural north 412 1,080.2 5.7 317 836.5 4.4 166 432.1 3.1 81 210.4 1.7
Alberta 2,590 55.1 3.5 2,571 56.9 3.7 1,851 43.0 3.3 1,273 31.9 2.5
Urban south 1,587 42.1 3.2 1,595 44.3 3.4 1,249 36.7 3.2 843 27.2 2.7
Urban north 82 56.2 2.0 85 59.7 2.1 80 56.4 2.6 49 34.7 1.4
Rural south 450 87.4 4.6 365 71.9 3.9 217 44.3 3.1 163 34.2 2.1
Rural north 471 173.7 5.0 526 195.8 5.4 305 113.5 4.3 218 81.3 2.7
British Columbia 1,459 26.4 1.7 1,516 28.3 1.8 983 19.6 1.7 1,110 24.0 1.9
Urban south 1,096 23.1 1.6 1,203 26.2 1.9 767 17.9 1.7 891 22.6 2.1
Urban north 199 83.6 2.8 125 53.1 1.8 113 48.5 2.3 92 40.9 1.7
Rural south 103 24.1 1.5 123 29.3 1.8 63 15.9 1.3 81 22.2 1.6
Rural north 61 57.5 1.6 65 61.6 1.7 40 38.2 1.5 46 43.6 1.4
Yukon 32 70.8 1.4 34 77.3 1.5 22 54.5 1.4 11 30.1 0.7
Northwest Territories 77 171.2 1.5 106 237.2 1.9 51 114.5 1.3 25 57.1 0.8
Nunavut 127 312.2 2.4 73 180.3 1.4 77 200.9 2.3 43 121.7 1.4
Canada 14,416 36.9 2.6 14,240 37.5 2.8 10,914 30.2 2.7 8,111 23.7 2.2
Provincial urban south 10,204 32.0 2.6 10,554 34.2 2.9 8,525 29.0 2.9 6,291 23.0 2.5
Provincial urban north 575 45.3 2.0 500 40.2 1.8 401 32.7 1.9 261 21.5 1.3
Provincial rural south 1,991 40.6 2.7 1,661 34.2 2.4 1,120 24.4 2.2 960 20.6 1.8
Provincial rural north 1,410 164.9 3.5 1,312 154.8 3.4 718 85.8 2.4 520 62.2 1.8
Territories 236 180.4 1.8 213 164.9 1.6 150 121.7 1.7 79 68.3 1.0
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