Table 4
Crime Severity Index by province, urban and rural areas, 2024
| Province | Crime Severity Index | % change 2014 to 2024 | Violent Crime Severity Index | % change 2014 to 2024 | Non-violent Crime Severity Index | % change 2014 to 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| index | percent | index | percent | index | percent | |
| Note: The crime severity index (CSI) includes all Criminal Code (including traffic) violations, as well as drug offences and all federal statute violations. The Violent CSI includes all violent offences. The Non-violent CSI includes all non-violent Criminal Code (including traffic) violations, as well as drug offences and all federal statute violations. The base index for Canada for 2006 was set at 100. The CSI was developed to complement the conventional crime rate and other indicators by considering both the number and severity of crimes in a given area. The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context. For more information, see “Understanding and using the Crime Severity Index” on Statistics Canada’s Crime and Justice Statistics Portal. 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 comprises 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 be highly integrated with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA or CA may be served by more than one police service. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, the British Columbia Integrated Child Exploitation Unit and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group. 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. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada’s Centre for Demography. Percent change calculations are based on unrounded indexes.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey. |
||||||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | ||||||
| Urban areas | 77.3 | 12.5 | 86.0 | 39.1 | 74.5 | 4.8 |
| Rural areas | 104.3 | 87.9 | 94.7 | 75.9 | 109.0 | 94.7 |
| Prince Edward Island | ||||||
| Urban areas | 76.2 | 17.7 | 87.9 | 54.1 | 72.2 | 7.0 |
| Rural areas | 65.9 | 63.8 | 64.0 | 94.4 | 67.2 | 57.0 |
| Nova Scotia | ||||||
| Urban areas | 72.6 | 6.8 | 92.2 | 30.1 | 65.4 | -2.1 |
| Rural areas | 82.0 | 27.4 | 99.9 | 69.5 | 75.6 | 14.1 |
| New Brunswick | ||||||
| Urban areas | 78.4 | 36.4 | 89.2 | 50.5 | 74.7 | 31.9 |
| Rural areas | 96.2 | 80.0 | 116.5 | 114.2 | 89.0 | 67.8 |
| Quebec | ||||||
| Urban areas | 61.4 | 5.2 | 93.4 | 42.0 | 49.2 | -11.5 |
| Rural areas | 71.7 | 32.1 | 117.3 | 113.2 | 54.0 | 0.3 |
| Ontario | ||||||
| Urban areas | 60.7 | 22.4 | 80.9 | 40.2 | 53.1 | 14.2 |
| Rural areas | 61.1 | 16.3 | 85.7 | 44.1 | 51.8 | 3.8 |
| Manitoba | ||||||
| Urban areas | 126.6 | 48.7 | 187.2 | 60.8 | 103.5 | 40.6 |
| Rural areas | 180.6 | 45.8 | 285.5 | 84.2 | 140.2 | 24.9 |
| Saskatchewan | ||||||
| Urban areas | 125.7 | 8.7 | 160.5 | 35.6 | 112.9 | -1.3 |
| Rural areas | 219.4 | 50.6 | 286.8 | 106.6 | 194.3 | 31.4 |
| Alberta | ||||||
| Urban areas | 86.3 | 6.5 | 95.2 | 16.4 | 83.5 | 3.6 |
| Rural areas | 141.9 | 23.5 | 159.6 | 45.8 | 136.1 | 16.6 |
| British Columbia | ||||||
| Urban areas | 92.0 | 0.6 | 91.9 | 20.7 | 92.8 | -4.1 |
| Rural areas | 93.0 | 17.2 | 112.0 | 46.6 | 86.1 | 7.4 |
| All provinces | ||||||
| Urban areas | 72.7 | 12.8 | 92.5 | 35.2 | 65.4 | 4.1 |
| Rural areas | 100.6 | 32.7 | 134.8 | 73.1 | 87.8 | 17.2 |
- Date modified: