Table 3
Characteristics of police-reported incidents, victims, and accused persons, by rural-urban and North-South geography, provinces, 2023

Table 3
Characteristics of police-reported incidents, victims, and accused persons, by rural-urban and North-South geography, provinces, 2023 Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of police-reported incidents, victims, and accused persons, by rural-urban and North-South geography, provinces, 2023. The information is grouped by Incident, victim, and accused characteristics (appearing as row headers), Rural, Provincial North1, Total, Provincial South1 and Urban, calculated using rate, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident, victim, and accused characteristics Rural Urban
Provincial North Table 3 Note 1 Provincial South Table 3 Note 1 Total Provincial North Table 3 Note 1 Provincial South Table 3 Note 1 Total
number percent rate number percent rate number percent rate number percent rate number percent rate number percent rate
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note ...

not applicable

Note 1

The Provincial South includes Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the southern regions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Provincial North includes the northern regions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Note 2

Information on the presence of weapons is collected for violent Criminal Code offences only. Due to data quality concerns, excludes the province of Quebec unless the most serious weapon present was a firearm, and data from the Québec City Police Service are excluded regardless of most serious weapon present.

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Note 3

In the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, characteristics of victims of crime are only reported by police for victims of crimes against the person (violent offences and certain Criminal Code traffic offences). Victim characteristics in this table are therefore based on a subset of all incidents reported by police.

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Note 4

Victims and accused persons older than 110 years were coded as unknown due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category, as were certain victims whose age was reported as 80 and older, but were identified as possible instances of miscoding.

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Note 5

Includes injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).

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Note 6

Includes injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility.

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Note 7

Includes current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners and dating partners (i.e., boyfriends, girlfriends), and other intimate partners (e.g., one-night stands). Victims of spousal violence include those aged 15 and older, and victims of dating violence include those aged 12 and older.

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Note 8

Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption (e.g., parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and in-laws).

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Note 9

Includes neighbours, roommates, authority figures, reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher, patient-to-doctor), business relationships and criminal relationships (i.e., relationships based on illegal activities).

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Note: Urban police services serve an area where the majority of the population lives within a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA). Rural police services serve an area where the majority of the population lives outside a CMA or CA. A CMA or a CA is comprised of one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (known as the core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more must live in the core. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA or CA may have more than one police service. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group (CF MP Gp). Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some offences using municipal bylaws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. One incident may involve multiple violations. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. The sum of the categories may not add up to the total as unknown values are not always displayed. As there can be multiple victims in an incident, the sum of victims does not equal the sum of incidents. Similarly, as not all incidents result in the identification of an accused person, and there can be multiple accused persons in the same incident, the sum of accused persons can also differ.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Incident characteristics  
Total incidents 164,856 100 18,297 291,050 100 5,914 455,906 100 7,830 116,100 100 9,153 1,814,038 100 5,546 1,930,138 100 5,681
Weapon present in the incident Table 3 Note 2  
Yes 7,615 22 845 7,967 16 162 15,582 18 268 3,796 18 299 57,605 21 179 61,401 21 184
No (includes threats and physical force) 26,665 78 3,214 42,043 84 1,152 68,708 82 1,534 16,849 82 1,765 220,268 79 862 237,117 79 895
Unknown 3,224 ... not applicable 389 3,922 ... not applicable 107 7,146 ... not applicable 160 1,152 ... not applicable 121 8,300 ... not applicable 32 9,452 ... not applicable 36
Location of incident  
Private residence 99,766 61 11,073 154,170 54 3,133 253,936 56 4,361 45,132 40 3,558 597,416 34 1,826 642,548 34 1,891
Public transportation, street, road, open area 28,225 17 3,133 66,560 23 1,352 94,785 21 1,628 26,042 23 2,053 493,191 28 1,508 519,233 28 1,528
Other commercial or non-residential location 35,185 22 3,905 66,169 23 1,345 101,354 23 1,741 42,242 37 3,330 673,560 38 2,059 715,802 38 2,107
Unknown 1,680 ... not applicable 186 4,151 ... not applicable 84 5,831 ... not applicable 100 2,684 ... not applicable 212 49,871 ... not applicable 152 52,555 ... not applicable 155
Incident clearance status  
Not cleared 86,059 52 9,551 181,738 62 3,693 267,797 59 4,599 68,351 59 5,388 1,234,335 68 3,774 1,302,686 67 3,834
Cleared by charge 37,468 23 4,158 65,477 22 1,330 102,945 23 1,768 29,503 25 2,326 434,016 24 1,327 463,519 24 1,364
Cleared otherwise 41,329 25 4,587 43,835 15 891 85,164 19 1,463 18,246 16 1,438 145,687 8 445 163,933 8 482
Victim characteristics Table 3 Note 3  
Total victims 38,061 100 4,224 62,861 100 1,277 100,922 100 1,733 24,196 100 1,908 358,425 100 1,096 382,621 100 1,126
Gender  
Women and girls 21,898 58 4,974 34,342 55 1,416 56,240 56 1,963 12,926 54 2,067 181,084 51 1,101 194,010 51 1,137
Men and boys 15,940 42 3,459 28,243 45 1,131 44,183 44 1,494 11,193 46 1,740 173,281 49 1,065 184,474 49 1,091
Unknown 223 ... not applicable ... not applicable 276 ... not applicable ... not applicable 499 ... not applicable ... not applicable 77 ... not applicable ... not applicable 4,060 ... not applicable ... not applicable 4,137 ... not applicable ... not applicable
Age (years)  
0 to 11 1,873 5 1,350 3,814 6 645 5,687 6 779 1,193 5 760 18,930 5 481 20,123 5 491
12 to 17 4,570 12 6,246 9,287 15 2,931 13,857 14 3,553 3,103 13 3,754 45,780 13 2,155 48,883 13 2,215
18 to 24 6,352 17 8,613 8,088 13 2,475 14,440 14 3,605 3,758 16 3,420 54,458 15 1,811 58,216 15 1,868
25 to 44 17,635 46 8,112 25,466 41 2,334 43,101 43 3,294 10,657 44 3,081 147,177 42 1,529 157,834 42 1,583
45 to 64 6,565 17 2,852 12,745 20 936 19,310 19 1,213 4,477 19 1,389 69,643 20 856 74,120 20 876
65 and older Table 3 Note 4 952 3 567 3,291 5 267 4,243 4 303 835 3 333 15,751 4 268 16,586 4 271
Unknown 114 ... not applicable ... not applicable 170 ... not applicable ... not applicable 284 ... not applicable ... not applicable 173 ... not applicable ... not applicable 6,686 ... not applicable ... not applicable 6,859 ... not applicable ... not applicable
Injury  
No injuries 15,686 45 1,741 36,808 64 748 52,494 57 902 13,285 60 1,047 212,165 64 649 225,450 64 664
Minor injuries Table 3 Note 5 17,929 52 1,990 19,965 34 406 37,894 41 651 8,308 37 655 108,713 33 332 117,021 33 344
Major injuries Table 3 Note 6 945 3 105 971 2 20 1,916 2 33 591 3 47 7,559 2 23 8,150 2 24
Death 88 0 10 175 0 4 263 0 5 65 0 5 776 0 2 841 0 2
Unknown 3,413 ... not applicable 379 4,942 ... not applicable 100 8,355 ... not applicable 143 1,947 ... not applicable 153 29,212 ... not applicable 89 31,159 ... not applicable 92
Accused-victim relationship  
Intimate partner Table 3 Note 7 11,544 30 1,514 17,558 28 405 29,102 29 571 6,425 27 578 86,000 24 299 92,425 24 309
Other family member Table 3 Note 8 8,873 23 985 12,766 20 259 21,639 22 372 3,249 13 256 43,650 12 133 46,899 12 138
Friend or casual acquaintance 9,904 26 1,099 15,998 26 325 25,902 26 445 5,563 23 439 67,334 19 206 72,897 19 215
Other person known to the victim Table 3 Note 9 3,217 8 357 7,397 12 150 10,614 11 182 3,231 13 255 48,700 14 149 51,931 14 153
Stranger 4,423 12 491 8,694 14 177 13,117 13 225 5,627 23 444 108,166 31 331 113,793 30 335
Unknown 100 ... not applicable 11 448 ... not applicable 9 548 ... not applicable 9 101 ... not applicable 8 4,575 ... not applicable 14 4,676 ... not applicable 14
Accused characteristics  
Total accused 88,304 100 9,800 128,058 100 2,602 216,362 100 3,716 51,753 100 4,080 631,641 100 1,931 683,394 100 2,011
Gender  
Women and girls 27,756 32 6,305 33,950 27 1,400 61,706 29 2,154 15,125 29 2,419 152,392 24 927 167,517 25 981
Men and boys 60,193 68 13,063 93,560 73 3,747 153,753 71 5,199 36,551 71 5,683 478,315 76 2,941 514,866 75 3,045
Unknown (includes companies) 355 ... not applicable ... not applicable 548 ... not applicable ... not applicable 903 ... not applicable ... not applicable 77 ... not applicable ... not applicable 934 ... not applicable ... not applicable 1,011 ... not applicable ... not applicable
Age (years)  
Under 12 769 1 554 842 1 142 1,611 1 221 331 1 211 2,899 0 74 3,230 0 79
12 to 17 7,012 8 9,583 11,021 9 3,478 18,033 8 4,623 4,129 8 4,996 57,662 9 2,714 61,791 9 2,800
18 to 24 14,602 17 19,799 18,203 14 5,571 32,805 15 8,191 6,812 13 6,199 85,774 14 2,853 92,586 14 2,971
25 to 44 49,490 56 22,766 69,137 54 6,335 118,627 55 9,065 29,798 58 8,614 354,269 56 3,681 384,067 56 3,852
45 to 64 15,138 17 6,576 24,399 19 1,792 39,537 18 2,484 9,671 19 3,001 116,235 18 1,428 125,906 18 1,488
65 and older Table 3 Note 4 1,279 1 762 4,428 3 359 5,707 3 407 994 2 397 14,275 2 243 15,269 2 249
Unknown 14 ... not applicable ... not applicable 28 ... not applicable ... not applicable 42 ... not applicable ... not applicable 18 ... not applicable ... not applicable 527 ... not applicable ... not applicable 545 ... not applicable ... not applicable
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