Table 1
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by year, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 1
Police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by year, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Mass casualty events, Violent crime4 , Total, Level 11, Level 22 and Level 33, calculated using number, rate5, number, rate5, number, rate5, number, rate5, number and rate5 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 1 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 1 Note 1 Level 2 Table 1 Note 2 Level 3 Table 1 Note 3
number rate Table 1 Note 5 number rate Table 1 Note 5 number rate Table 1 Note 5 number rate Table 1 Note 5 number rate Table 1 Note 5
Note 1

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained minor physical injury.

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Note 2

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury and one to three victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 3

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 4

Includes mass casualty events. To allow for comparison with mass casualty events, incidents of violent crime are limited to those with victim records.

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Note 5

The rates for 2010 to 2014, 2015 to 2019 and 2020 to 2024 reflect average annual rates for each respective period, while the total rate reflects the average annual rate for the 2010 to 2024 period.

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Note: Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. For information about level of injury, see Text box 1. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which, as of 2009, includes data for 99% of the population in Canada.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
2010 to 2014 Table 1 Note 5 1,750 1.0 1,449 0.8 254 0.15 47 0.03 1,600,605 933
2010 409 1.2 339 1.0 58 0.17 12 0.04 354,224 1,052
2011 344 1.0 296 0.9 42 0.12 6 0.02 333,737 982
2012 387 1.1 315 0.9 63 0.18 9 0.03 323,832 942
2013 302 0.9 252 0.7 44 0.13 6 0.02 300,800 866
2014 308 0.9 247 0.7 47 0.13 14 0.04 288,012 821
2015 to 2019 Table 1 Note 5 1,738 1.0 1,450 0.8 233 0.13 55 0.03 1,590,009 877
2015 339 1.0 276 0.8 49 0.14 14 0.04 294,754 834
2016 339 0.9 284 0.8 44 0.12 11 0.03 299,054 836
2017 356 1.0 303 0.8 45 0.12 8 0.02 312,191 863
2018 342 0.9 288 0.8 44 0.12 10 0.03 325,687 887
2019 362 1.0 299 0.8 51 0.14 12 0.03 358,323 962
2020 to 2024 Table 1 Note 5 1,987 1.0 1,709 0.9 199 0.10 79 0.04 2,004,251 1,029
2020 353 0.9 293 0.8 45 0.12 15 0.04 353,828 940
2021 395 1.0 343 0.9 40 0.11 12 0.03 377,765 998
2022 426 1.1 368 1.0 43 0.11 15 0.04 400,441 1,039
2023 443 1.1 378 1.0 47 0.12 18 0.05 432,298 1,089
2024 370 0.9 327 0.8 24 0.06 19 0.05 439,919 1,076
Total Table 1 Note 5 5,475 1.0 4,608 0.8 686 0.13 181 0.03 5,194,865 946
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