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

Table 2B
Incidents of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by province or territory and region, 2013 to 2023 Table summary
The information is grouped by Province or territory and region (appearing as row headers), 2023, 2018 to 2022 and 2013 to 2022, calculated using percent change in rate from 2022, percent change in rate from 2018, percent change in rate from 2013, percent change in rate from average for 2018 to 2022, percent change in rate from average for 2013 to 2022, average number1, average rate2, average number1 and average rate2 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory and region 2023 2018 to 2022 2013 to 2022
percent change in rate from 2022 percent change in rate from 2018 percent change in rate from 2013 percent change in rate from average for 2018 to 2022 percent change in rate from average for 2013 to 2022 average number Table 2B Note 1 average rate Table 2B Note 2 average number Table 2B Note 1 average rate Table 2B Note 2
Note 1

Reflects the average of the annual numbers for the identified period.

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Note 2

Reflects the average of the annual rates for the identified period.

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Note 3

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 4

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 5

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. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. 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 -6.1 -10.9 15.5 -4.8 -1.8 122 23.0 118 22.3
Urban south -37.4 -31.2 -25.1 -25.0 -19.5 73 25.9 66 24.1
Rural south 63.8 26.6 62.1 34.3 27.7 34 15.8 37 16.6
Rural north 114.3 6.1 148.2 6.6 4.3 14 50.1 14 51.2
Prince Edward Island 154.7 57.7 367.3 103.1 105.8 20 12.8 19 12.6
Urban south 186.9 22.3 378.4 96.7 103.2 11 10.7 10 10.4
Rural south 127.0 134.9 369.6 112.1 111.7 9 16.6 9 16.6
Nova Scotia 5.1 50.5 30.8 17.0 28.7 267 27.0 237 24.5
Urban south -8.0 12.0 7.0 -0.7 11.1 190 28.1 165 25.1
Rural south 35.3 214.4 100.8 62.0 71.4 77 24.6 72 23.2
New Brunswick -1.1 51.9 128.9 23.0 50.8 240 33.5 193 27.3
Urban south Table 2B Note 3 3.3 65.6 142.8 29.0 52.0 127 29.4 106 25.0
Rural south -5.9 38.6 114.3 16.6 49.9 113 39.6 87 30.8
Quebec Table 2B Note 4 -3.9 19.4 -0.6 8.5 9.1 1,788 22.7 1,742 22.5
Urban south -7.7 20.5 -6.2 7.0 6.3 1,444 22.9 1,412 23.1
Urban north 38.7 -19.5 54.5 6.3 17.5 67 21.9 61 19.8
Rural south 12.4 22.0 21.7 17.2 22.8 253 20.8 243 19.8
Rural north Table 2B Note 5 -13.0 144.9 12.2 12.0 8.9 24 33.7 25 34.7
Ontario -6.6 5.5 66.6 4.2 16.7 4,226 29.0 3,668 25.9
Urban south -7.0 2.5 61.9 3.1 14.4 3,852 30.4 3,369 27.4
Urban north -16.2 62.3 150.3 10.6 46.1 158 29.4 118 22.2
Rural south 15.5 38.3 114.5 22.1 43.6 149 13.6 123 11.6
Rural north -8.7 32.1 81.9 10.2 30.1 68 27.9 58 23.6
Manitoba 13.7 35.1 112.6 22.3 44.9 888 66.3 732 56.0
Urban south -0.8 -14.0 58.9 -11.1 3.3 556 58.4 467 50.3
Urban north 49.0 224.0 717.3 150.3 275.8 16 121.4 11 80.8
Rural south 46.4 156.5 172.2 70.0 109.1 131 46.1 105 37.5
Rural north 22.5 169.3 208.4 87.1 125.5 184 213.3 150 177.0
Saskatchewan 11.2 52.1 206.4 20.9 50.1 1,198 104.9 952 84.5
Urban south -0.6 20.0 182.5 2.2 26.5 666 87.2 527 70.4
Rural south 22.3 70.2 159.2 29.7 55.9 287 84.2 239 70.1
Rural north 29.1 150.0 413.4 67.2 121.2 246 645.9 187 488.4
Alberta -3.2 27.9 72.5 10.2 21.8 2,206 50.0 1,941 45.2
Urban south -5.0 14.5 54.8 6.3 14.8 1,386 39.6 1,241 36.7
Urban north -5.9 -0.3 62.1 -6.8 -3.5 86 60.3 83 58.2
Rural south 21.6 97.5 156.0 35.2 54.3 324 64.7 280 56.6
Rural north -11.3 53.0 113.7 13.9 38.5 410 152.5 338 125.4
British Columbia -6.6 35.0 10.3 5.7 6.3 1,298 25.0 1,239 24.9
Urban south -11.8 29.1 1.9 3.4 0.7 992 22.3 975 22.9
Urban north 57.3 72.3 104.3 54.8 74.0 126 54.0 111 48.0
Rural south -17.7 51.3 8.6 -20.1 -5.9 123 30.2 101 25.6
Rural north -6.6 50.7 32.0 6.1 15.3 57 54.2 52 49.9
Yukon -8.4 30.1 135.1 -12.1 1.1 34 80.6 28 70.1
Northwest Territories -27.8 49.5 200.0 -6.0 35.6 81 182.2 56 126.3
Nunavut 73.2 55.4 156.6 59.5 78.7 77 195.8 67 174.7
Canada -1.7 22.1 55.5 9.8 21.1 12,446 33.6 10,993 30.5
Provincial urban south -6.5 10.1 38.9 3.6 12.0 9,297 30.9 8,338 28.5
Provincial urban north 12.9 38.6 111.2 23.3 44.6 454 36.8 385 31.3
Provincial rural south 18.7 66.3 97.4 27.8 46.3 1,500 31.8 1,296 27.8
Provincial rural north 6.5 92.1 165.2 38.4 68.3 1,002 119.1 823 98.0
Territories 9.4 48.2 164.1 18.4 47.4 192 152.3 151 122.4
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